Film And Digital: Two Cameras, Two Days, One Lens; Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4.

Please notice I said “and” not “vs”.

I already know that my infatuation with film has less to do with the output is more about the process.

The feel of old-timey gear in my hands.
The tactile mechanical feedback of loading and rewinding film, the shutter actuation, and film winding on.
The film processing… process. Using the dark bag to load the film into the daylight tank, heating the chemistry, watching the timer and agitating the film, and that feeling when you pull out a properly exposed negative at the end of it.
Some would say the not knowing what you get real time, but I have taken to flipping the screen around on a digital camera or ignoring it altogether. Plus Fujifilm will sell you a X Half with a film simulation mode if you like.

Not Really A Review. An Appreciation Post For A Camera I Did Not Understand At First: The Fujifilm X Half.

Silly? Perhaps. But I would be lying if I said I did not enjoy using it.

All that being said, what if one were to compare the output with as close as one could have to the same conditions?

This time around, it was not a side-by-side. But one day after another. This was not by design. My iniital mission day one was to run a roll through an Instathreadface darling…

…to see if another try would end in a different result.

Nope.

But I did have much better luck with the image output this second time around.

This Old Camera: Pentax 67 Take Two.

But the next day, after I safely returned the 67 to the camera shop, I had a thought. Potentially dangerous, I know. But pretty harmless this time.

What if I return the next day around the same time and retake the pics, or come as close as I could, memory willing, with my digital rig?

So that is what I did.

Arrived a little earlier, but was too impatient for the pedantry of waiting for the same time.

Enough yapping and set up. Here are the images. First film and then digital.

Thoughts.

While not an exact match framing-wise, I think it went well considering I was working off of memory the day after.

I am very pleased with this result.

It does not replace the film experience, but rather unlocks a greater potential for the lens. Because before and after this shot, there were more pics that I would not have taken with 10 shots per roll in mind.

But the hero of the story is the Kipon focal reducer. As is well known there is a sizable difference in the size of a 645 film frame and a GFX digital sensor. And by my eyes the Kipon focal reducer…