🎙️ Podcast Segment: "The Beast Arrives – My Life with the Pentax 67"

Alright folks, grab your coffee—or your developer—and let me tell you how I accidentally adopted a 2-kilo chunk of mechanical madness: the Pentax 67.

This isn’t just a camera. It’s a behemoth. A shutter that slams like a car door in a thunderstorm. A mirror slap that could set off seismographs. I saw it online, shining like a knight’s sword, and before I knew it—click, it was mine.

Why? Well, I’d just gone full film. Sold all my digital gear—bye Canon 6D, adieu SD cards. I didn’t just want a new camera; I wanted a main battle tank. Enter: the P67.

And the lens? Oh, the 105mm f/2.4 Takumar. It’s legendary. Renders bokeh like a dream and sharpness that’ll cut glass. I shot a few portraits and immediately considered framing them... and legally adopting them.

They say you can’t handhold it? Lies. I’ve done it at 1/60, 1/30—just eat a banana and breathe steady.

Now I wander the moors—or in my case, Villach—with this camera thudding at my side like a grumpy goat. Every frame? A handshake with history.

The Pentax 67 isn’t practical. It’s perfect.

More stories soon… and maybe some tales of frozen fingers and 120 film. Stay tuned.