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Pentacon Six TL

            Long ago, I bought an Exakta 66 medium format camera. This was the camera purchase I regretted the most, because my Exakta 66 was woefully unreliable. Its shutter and film transport regularly broke down. 

However, the, Exakta 66, which really was a Pentacon Six with a more modern look and a rubber coating, came with a Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 80 lens. An excellent lens, on par with or exceeding the Carl Zeiss Planar 80 for Rollei or Hasselblad medium format cameras, at least in my humble opinion. 

I always wanted to be able to use that lens, but I had come to hate the Exakta 66. So finally, 32 years after the Exakta 66, I got a Pentacon Six in good condition, one that had recently been serviced. It was that or a Kiev 60, another Pentacon Six Clone. I certainly will treat it very carefully; hopefully it will work well. 

Mine has a waist level finder, which is what I wanted. Medium format photography with a prism eye level finder is, to me, just ... weird. 

Shot with:
Canon EOS600D
Leica Bellows R (16860)
Leica 100mm f/4 Macro Elmar-R, bellows version (11230)
   

Taken on: May 7, 2021

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Camera: Canon EOS 600D, f/0, 1/10 sec, 50mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 600D
Aperture:	f/0
Exposure Time:	0.1 sec (1/10)
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Fired
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.24
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