Landscape Photographer Tony Howell

Tony Howell, September 2006

Tony Howell with his 39 megapixel camera

Read my Mamiya lens tests here


Cambo Wide DS Technical Camera with Schneider Apo-Digitar XL lenses (with P45 digital back, 39 Megapixels resolution) Likes: Lenses, simply the best. Jaw-dropping quality. Fantastic detail. Great camera with plenty of shift movement. Dislikes: Completely spoiled my ability to like the Mamiya 35mm lens! Lenses easily flare, and are slow because of the centre filters. Big. Lenses: - Schneider Digitar XL 24mm and 35mm. Great lenses, but would like a 24mm with movements!

P45 digital back 39 Megapixels resolution Produces 112mb files suitable for huge prints. See examples of how good 39 megapixels are here Likes: I've never seen image quality as good as this before. Prints from this back are simply the best I've ever done, so sharp (larger pixels) and with stunning colour from the true 16-bit processors. Dynamic Range much better than DSLR Dislikes: Poor screen resolution, ISO limited to 400. Put me off using my favoured (and so easy to use) Canon cameras!
645AF (used with P45 digital back, 39 Megapixels resolution) Likes: Easy to use, although lack of depth-of-field compared to 35mm took some getting used to. Lenses from 50mm up perform brilliantly Dislikes: Wide angle lenses should be better. Camera battery system (6xAA) - fiddly to use and charge Lenses: - Mamiya 120mm macro (10/10), Phase One 75-150mm (10/10), 50mm Shift lens (8/10), 105-210mm (8/10), 300mm (8/10), Extension tube 3 I sold my 55-110mm (6/10) and 35mm f3.5 (4/10) as they simply weren't sharp enough. Come on Mamiya! Read my Mamiya lens tests here

5D MkII Professional Full-frame Digital Camera - 21 megapixels RECENTLY HAD THIS CAMERA CONVERTED TO INFRARED Produces superb 60mb files Likes: Great camera, I really enjoy using it, light weight, high image quality, sensor cleaning, hand-holdability (after using a 1DS MkII for years!). Canon's live view is fantastic, the world leader. Dislikes: No flash, On/Off switch position, 14-bit processors give shallow colour compared to medium format. Poor dynamic range Lenses: - 24mm TS-E Mk II (10/10), 70-200 f4L (9/10), 50mm 1.4 (9/10), 17-40 f4L (8/10), 1.4x convertor (8/10), Extension Tube EF25, Tamron 90mm macro (8/10). 580EX flashgun

Filters: - Polarisers, Neutral Density ND4 and B&W 10 stop ND. Tripods: - Manfrotto 055 XPro, 055 and 055 MF4. MN410 geared head

Previously owned cameras also used to take images shown on this site: -
Canon 1DS MkII Professional Full-frame Digital Camera Produces superb 47mb files Likes: Ground-breaking camera, built like a tank, high image quality, battery life amazing Dislikes: No flash, On/Off switch position, no sensor cleaning, depreciation (bought for £5100, sold for £1750)
Wista SP 5x4 inch large format camera, Rodenstock 90mm and Fujinon 150mm lenses Fuji GSW 690II 6x9cm medium format camera with fixed 65mm lens Bronica SQA 6x6cm medium format camera with 40mm, 50mm, 80mm, 150mm lenses, 2x convertor, S-36 extension tube Rolleiflex 2.8F 6x6cm medium format camera with fixed 80mm lens

Tony Howell - Cameras used

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