This is the last photo at my balcony with the Mamiya Sekor SHIFT Z 75mm ƒ4.5 lens in panorama mode - showing twilight colors if the distant high rise buildings from Högdalen and the City of Stockholm and the Globe arena 7 km away.

The real photo

The scene already felt darker compared to the photo, but the camera collected light during the 60 second exposure of each three images, which I then stitched together into that final panorama.

Occasionally some areas are missing. I then use Photoshop AI to fill those out (in post, not in RAW) instead of cutting it down, enhance it a little bit, and then sharpen the whole thing with Topaz. I often get a dark corner in the middle, which i have to iron out through cloning of some kind, so that the sky is free from any corner shading (which when i stitch them all together, often appears in the middle, upper border.

Old Love

What I do love working with however, are the big Pentax 6x7 and Mamiya RZ67 lenses. I never thought of doing that with a digital fullframe camera. But with the larger Fujifilm GFX image sensor, it sort of made more sense to me. (yet, working with the VERTEX adapter and [30 MP] Canon EOS R + Pentax 6x7 lenses, was in fact very nice to work with, too !

Those images then resulted into equivalent a 75 MP sensor.

So, yeah, you can use fullframe cameras + mediumformat lenses that way - instead of using a Fujifilm GFX camera. In my opinion, it is the VERTEX method that i find being perhaps the coolest, because it actually uses much more of the lens image circle, almost as if using it natively on a huge sensor. The focal length of the lenses return to it's original focal length like it originally was designed for; the 6x7 film negative format.

Now with digital mediumformat photography; there is the slowness, a stronger carefulness, working with manual settings, which requires to check that all settings are really in order. And to do more careful compositions... (WHich in the case of the rotating VERTEX method is tricky - because you never see thee whole image frame !!

All together however, ensures a slow, methodic working style. Far more careful executed compared to the snapping iPhone type of photography. Click-Click-Click.

What i feel is so cool - is to have this "mediumformat" slowness to work with.

I love it !