{"id":7,"date":"2014-03-05T22:25:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T19:41:57","slug":"my-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/my-new-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"My new camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past nine years I have been shooting with Canon gear. Starting with a 350D, then two of them, building a business, until shooting weddings with a pair of 5D\u2019s (the then current model) in 2008. After that, I decided I wanted to take a different turn and got rid of most of my gear, leaving just one 1Ds II<\/a> (bought second hand) and four lenses. Over the following years I grew very accustomed to the 1Ds II and its quirks, trying to get the best possible image quality from it. Last monday I sold it.<\/p>\n

Today was my first day out and about with my new camera: the Pentax 645D. I wanted to concentrate on handling the machine and experimenting with ISO 100 and 200 (100 is part of the \u201cextended\u201d range).
\nInitial findings:<\/p>\n

1) The 645D is a joy to work with, after a slight (inevitable) learning curve (I read the manual before going to sleep yesterday). Buttons are very well placed, the whole interface makes sense.
\n2) The mirror up switch is a godsend (goodbye fiddling with the menu).
\n3) Manual focusing with the Pentax is not harder than with the Canon. At first I thought it was easier, but because it is more critical, even at f\/4 and f\/5.6 (hello big sensor), I had about the same amount of keepers due to focus as I would have had with the 1Ds II.
\n4) There\u2019s obvious chromatic aberration, both with the 55 and the 90 mm, in high contrast areas. This was a slight dissapointment.
\n5) The 55 has some very noticeable barrel distortion which I hoped it hadn’t.
\n6) ISO 100 seems more like 125 or 160 and \/ or has less headroom \/ dynamic range. This needs to be investigated further but for now I think ISO 200 will do fine.
\n7) ISO can be changed without taking your eye from the viewfinder, like I was used to with the 5D\u2019s. Really happy with that, this is a must for fast paced environments like weddings.
\nSharpness and image quality will be judged with large high quality prints, which I don\u2019t have yet. So I will refrain from going into that, but on the screen it looks very promising.
\nI made some changes to the default setup of the 645D:
\n1) Moved AF from half-press of the shutter button to only the AF button on the back. Since I mostly MF and the 55 and 90 are FTM I can now MF without the focus changing when I press the shutter and still AF with one push of a button.
\n2) Turned the level indicator in the viewfinder on, this moves the under \/ overexposure indicator to the right where normally the ISO is. The ISO can still be changed (and seen in the viewfinder) when pushing the ISO button.
\n3) Expanded ISO on (pending investigation).
\n4) All noise reduction off (pending investigation).
\n5) Auto image rotation off, I can rotate the camera myself, thank you. (It still saves the orientation of the image to be picked up by ACR.)
\nHere\u2019s some shots from the day (unedited, except the last one is a slight crop). Note the fringing in the first one (this is the 90 mm), and the barrel distortion in the last (55 mm).<\/p>\n

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The first photographs with my Pentax 645D after years of using Canon. Custom settings and learnings. And yes, I read the manual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medium-format-digital","category-pentax-645d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}