This short review took a long time to happen as we started investigating into the Kodak Proback in April. Now we could use for the first time latest Kodak ProBack 645C on a Contax 645. The lenses we used were the 35mm, 80mm and 120mm Macro (thanks to our friends at Keeble & Shuchat Photography).

Having used mostly 35mm SLRs the last 20 years (we owned a Hasselblad about 1980) the view finder on this MF camera is just heaven (because of the big size). There is nothing much to tell about the Contax 645 camera. I just love it! Everything worked intuitive and smooth.

Also the Proback 645C worked fine and was easy to handle on the Contax. The last proback we used was still tethered to a battery. Although that was not really a problem the new un tethered 645 backs are a pleasure to use. You have to get used to the histogram as the histogram can get closer to the right side (highlights) as we would risk with any Nikon D100 or D1x (too easy to get overexposure)

All photos (ISO 100 only) were converted with the Kodak Photo Desk 1.6 (no sharpening and no noise removal) and used in ProPhotoRGB mode (saved as 16bit TIFFs). Sharpening was performed in Photoshop with Nik Sharpener and PowerRetouche Sharpness PR.

Often it was not that easy for us to get the right colors with the Kodak 760 and also our first ProBack. This time the colors were really excellent and very natural.

Most pictures were taken in Alviso (South Bay) where you can find very interesting murals. The 120mm Macro was our love from the first moment and most of the photos were shot with this manual lens.