Kodak Digital ProBack 645
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Kodak Digital ProBack 645
5 months ago
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Hello, everybody. I'm happy owner of Kodak SLR/n and half year ago I've bought medium format Mamiya and Kodak Digital Back, which was announced 10 yeras ago.
I'm just amazed and stunned with this back, the colour and tonality of Kodak are just unbeatable
I think it would be interesting to you know what I've learned using this combo and look some pics
http://tsykhra.livejournal.com/6337.html
I've quick corrected google-translated text from the article. Here it is
It took six months from the moment when one good guy sold me this back with Mamiya 645 AFD II and a bunch of optics. It's time to share experiences, thoughts and photos.
{pic of mamiya and kodak back}I was getting used to the back gradually. First, I shoot one event in our city, just for myself, just to get familiar to Mamiya. Mamiya is not suited for reportage with its slow autofocus and a single focus point, but the result was just amazing. I of course mean the overall picture, not some reportage quality features. Color, tonality - all the shots had the wow effect. Speaking of Adobe ACR / Lightroom — this is the software that understands the raw-s of all cameras and backs in the world )) But I do not like its work with color, especially when you start tweaking sliders. Color starts to flow pretty strong. Although sometimes, when it was more important to quickly reduce the lights than to mess with masks in Photoshop, I prefer ACR instead RPP. But you have to make a couple of manipulations to enhance the picture. First - we should select a previous version of the profile (2.4) in Camera tab dropdown menu, to remove yellow cast because of twisted-profiles, and a reduction of contrast by about a half. RPP - a tool which I finally moved from PhaseOne Capture One, which I used to convert wedding and reportage shoots with Nikon D3. 7-th version of C1 has not changed the situation. Finally Capture One does not understand the back's raws, so they had to be converted to dng, and this is not the best option. I've asked Ilya Borgh to make new profile for the RPP, and after a month and a half it has been done. During this time we've chatted a lot, and I absorbed a lot of knowledge. {reportage pics}Then I got another couple of photo shoots, I've posted results in these threads http://tsykhra.livejournal.com/5757.html
http://tsykhra.livejournal.com/5224.htmlhttp://tsykhra.livejournal.com/4894.htmlRaising the ISO in this back is not recommended, it is best to shoot at ISO 100 and pull the exposure in the converter. Here I'vs decided to make a shot with a 5 stops underexposed and pull the converter. The result is in front of you (click) {pic}Another story - the night shots. "Wow" effect comes where you do not expect {pics}Color is fat, dense, and when you increase saturation photo is not divided into separate acid stains I really like how this back works after sunset, as well on portraits, architecture, macro. {3 pics}When I worked as a second photographer at the wedding. Sometimes it was necessary to use the Nikon SB-800 flash in M mode {wedding pics}Then I've decided to check back in a more serious conditions, to shoot a wedding. In general, it is pretty good for 10-years-old CCD-sensor. {5 night pics}The one time I prefer ACR to quickly reduce the lights, because difference between the illuminated church and the rest was a very large When there is a lot of light, back just amazes with unreachable IQ, so that in advance you start to regret that that lucky days will end sometime, and the back will die of old age {pic}{pics}
In the next three photos, note the shadows. They have a color. Sehr gut!Winter only comes here, but has already made a couple of shots I like very much. {RPP screenshot}Screenshot of the RPP. All without cheating Notice the red channel, I will explain later{pcs}{3 pics with apples and leaves}{text}{pic}A shot with the flash at a wedding A month and a half ago, I became father, and I'm glad that her first days and months of life will be shot by masterpiece – Kodak ProBack. Now as in the studio. There we managed to shoot a couple of times, and then only in passing, there were some problems. The first cheap Chinese synchronizer rejected to sync. Second, I wanted this back to be able to shoot in tethered mode, when taken picture is immediately transferred to a computer. I do not know if this is possible, the back has mini-firewire output, which in theory was created for this purpose too, but the cable with the connector is rare, you need to order it on ebay, and it's not a fact it would work. {winter pic}PPS. Of all my pictures (except two or three with a little skin retouching) and the house in night which I've made it a little bit lighter — not postprocessed. The rest - standard exposure/contrast/WB manipulation in RPP / ACR + resize. No plugins
Edited 5 months ago by digitoid
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