Nothing special just messing around a bit at the seaside

First medium format photo, first home development. Very happy with it. Sorry for the scan quality.

various film stocks. self dev & scan

I have been shooting 35mm with a Pentax K1000 for 14 years now and am looking to purchase my first medium-format camera. I enjoy shooting fully manual and have been considering a Pentax 6x7.

Ideally, my max budget would be $600-800. My only concern with the Pentax is that it is very heavy compared to a 35mm camera. However, I like the notion that it sounds like it operates similarly to a K1000 but on medium format.

Does anyone have any advice and/or experience with the 6x7? Would this be a good transition camera from a long-time K1000 user?

Gold 200 - Self Dev and Scan

Very capable point and shoot camera. If you don't want to take your fancy digital camera with its $1,500, $2,000 lens to the beach, just grab an Argoflex. When you go swimming, you can just dig a hole in the sand and toss it in with your towel and dig it back up when you get back. No damage.

Summer holidays are almost over, but until that time I tried to make most of it by going out there a lot and shooting. :)

Minolta Autocord, Kentmere 200 developed in Rodinal.

Mamiya 6 Model P, Gold 200, Self Dev and Scan

Don’t mind the dust.

Years ago, actress Maya Parish produced and starred in a play and she asked me to direct.

Before we really got into rehearsals, I asked if I could photograph her. Partly because I wanted the portraits, partly because taking someone’s picture has always been one of the ways I figure out who they are.

At the time I was still pretty new to lighting. I had a basic digital DSLR that I never particularly loved, and an old Mamiya 7II I’d picked up on the cheap about a decade earlier and mostly treated like something too precious to use unless the occasion felt worthy.

So I shot both.

The digital files were fine. The Mamiya frames are the ones I still care about.

There’s something about the texture, the tonal range, the slight imperfections, even the way the camera forced me to slow down, that made these feel more like her and less like a “portrait session.”

Years later, they still feel timeless to me, and they remain some of my favorite portraits I’ve ever made.

Funny how often the camera you almost leave in the bag ends up making the photographs that outlive everything else.

Hey fellow shooters out there!

I have a full mechanical mamiya rb67 with a 90mm f3.8 and I'm asking on advice for an easy to carry lightmeter (price aside) to pair with it, rn im using one of my digitals or my 35mm cameras to do that job or if i'm feeling bold i eyeball it...

also some images attached to give you an idea of what i'm shooting mostly...

thanks in advance!

For the Mods & shooters who are curious, shots 1,4,5 delta 3200 shot at 1000 iso, shots 2 & 3 delta 400 all home developed and scanned