Great camera, I had an M645 before moving up to my Mamiya 645 Super with all the toys (winder, AE prism, 4 lenses, 3 backs). You can use the DS as a meter for the most part. Mirror Lockup is your friend below 1/60th (and put it on a tripod at those speeds), although if you have an M645J, you won't have Mirror Lockup (it's on the M645 and 1000s models only, of the original M645 bodies).
The lenses are excellent and cheap. I recommend the 55/2.8 and 150/3.5 as good companions to your 80. The 80/1.9 is cheap and drool-worthy as well. -Adam On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Jon Paul Schelter <jonpaul.schel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been thinking about an upgrade to a K20D, D300 or D700... > > Instead of wading into the madness that is high tech, my Anna got me a > Mamiya 645 - looks like the original to me, with a penta-prism finder - I > don't really know a lot about it, but I'm excited to try it out. It seems > to be in great working order. It came with an 80mm f/2.8. > > Does anyone have advice or pointers for a novice? I'm going to need a light > meter, I guess, although I *imagine* that I can use my *istDS to give me an > EV. Is there anything I should know about moving to a 6x4.5 format? The > viewfinder is beautiful, and makes me think that I might actually be able to > take a manually focused shot. It also makes me wonder at how dependent I am > on technology these days. > > Happy Holidays to all. > > j > > On 25-Dec-08, at 12:15 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > >> Erin gave me a rather HUGE Lowprowe Pro Trekker II AW. >> >> I bought my self an SB 800 flash. >> >> New 4 Gig jump drive from Liz. >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> Equine Photography >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> Ontario Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
