Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
First things first - I will be giving this camera away to one lucky viewer! Find out how you can win this in the next video that I upload!
Ok, down to business. Pentacon Six TL... I see the everywhere, they're pretty popular and they're pretty easy to find, but does that mean that they're good? Or just common?
Well... I don't want to spoil the surprise finding that I discovered. But it turns out... now wait for it... it turns out that if you use a good lens, you get decent pictures. And if you use a crap lens, you don't.
Don't all come rushing to me at once now, I know this is a remarkable revelation.
Seriously though, Carl Zeiss Biometar 80mm f2.8 - good lens. Carl Zeiss Flektogon 50mm f4 - good lens. Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8 - good lens.
Meyer-Optik 400mm f5.5 - not good lens. Or at least not the version I was using. Nothing I did with that lens made the images any better. But there we are, you can't win them all.
But this does bring me on to an important point, and that is that a camera 'review' if you want to call it that, is on'y partly about the camera, and a lot about the lens.
The good news here is that the Pentacon Six is a competent camera, that's for sure. Some issues here and there, but for the most part, it's a good camera.
And its greatest strength is the lenses that are available for it. That's not to say that they are the best lenses in the whole world, just that there are a LOT of them! So there is loads to choose from.
Aaaaanyway, what do you think of the Pentacon Six? Have you tried one? Drop me a comment below and give me your thoughts!
Useful link to Trevor's amazing website: pentaconsix.com
First things first - I will be giving this camera away to one lucky viewer! Find out how you can win this in the next video that I upload!
Ok, down to business. Pentacon Six TL... I see the everywhere, they're pretty popular and they're pretty easy to find, but does that mean that they're good? Or just common?
Well... I don't want to spoil the surprise finding that I discovered. But it turns out... now wait for it... it turns out that if you use a good lens, you get decent pictures. And if you use a crap lens, you don't.
Don't all come rushing to me at once now, I know this is a remarkable revelation.
Seriously though, Carl Zeiss Biometar 80mm f2.8 - good lens. Carl Zeiss Flektogon 50mm f4 - good lens. Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8 - good lens.
Meyer-Optik 400mm f5.5 - not good lens. Or at least not the version I was using. Nothing I did with that lens made the images any better. But there we are, you can't win them all.
But this does bring me on to an important point, and that is that a camera 'review' if you want to call it that, is on'y partly about the camera, and a lot about the lens.
The good news here is that the Pentacon Six is a competent camera, that's for sure. Some issues here and there, but for the most part, it's a good camera.
And its greatest strength is the lenses that are available for it. That's not to say that they are the best lenses in the whole world, just that there are a LOT of them! So there is loads to choose from.
Aaaaanyway, what do you think of the Pentacon Six? Have you tried one? Drop me a comment below and give me your thoughts!
Useful link to Trevor's amazing website: pentaconsix.com
