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PentaxHot Shots In issue 11, we offered you the chance to win a day with the Pentax 645Z. Five lucky readers enjoyed their day out recently; here’s how they got on
LEFTANDBELOW Barrow Beck by Cyril Deretz, taken with the 55mm standard lens, 0.4sec at f/10, ISO 100. Cyril composing his Barrow Beck shot. ABOVE Shot with the 25mm lens, 1/13sec at f/25, ISO 100 and converted in Lightroom to monochrome by Jack Ellis.
Words by Will Cheung
three-way heads, plus Lee Filters ND grads, polarisers and the Big Stopper – basically, everything you could want for a day’s photography in the Lakes, given some half decent weather. Luckily, the skies cleared up (well, apart from a few threatening rain clouds later on) and the hot shots enjoyed their time with the cameras, turning in a plethora of sharp shots. Here’s a selection of the images our five photographers produced with the Pentax 645Z.
Ourfivehotshotswereaccompaniedbyme;MarkCheetham, Ricoh Imaging’s national accounts manager; and Matt Emmett, Pentax ambassador and expert urban photographer. They teamed their 645Z bodies with the standard 55mm f/2.8 lens, but our intrepid shooters also got to try out a good selection of other lenses, covering a range from 25mm to 300mm and including the new 28-45mm f/4 wide-angle zoom. Also on offer were loaned Manfrotto MTCXPRO055 tripods with X-PRO
An exclusive landscape shoot in the Lake District with the new medium-format DSLR from Pentax was the promise, and that’s what our five hot shots got. It’s just they probably weren’t anticipating the opportunity to assess the 645Z’s 76 seals at the same time. The reliable British weather had other ideas though, ensuring our five shooters tested the competitively priced camera in the damp, drizzle and a downpour – a test it passed with flying colours.
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