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Pentax 67II

Pentax · Pentax 67 mount · 55×70mm on 120 or 220 film (Pentax 67II catalogue); fixed back with a single start mark for both lengths · 1998

single source, unconfirmed via machine translation — corrections welcome

Known as “バケペン (Bakepen)”

Also known as: Pentax 67II · Pentax 67 II · 67II · 67 II · Pentax 67-II · ペンタックス67II · ペンタックス 67 II · バケペン

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Pentax 67II Pentax 67 1998–2009 — —
  1. The catalogue price is the only price found and is a later list price, not the November 1998 launch price; kakaku.com shows no maker's price for the body.
  2. Ricoh Imaging's product-history pages were unreachable (404), so the dates rest on Japanese Wikipedia's model list, kakaku.com and dealer pages. pentaxforums.com blocked every request (403).
  3. Weight is Pentax's own figure for the body without finder; reviewers who quote about 1.7kg are weighing it with the AE prism.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Moulded right-hand grip and top-plate LCD: the two features that separate it from every 67 at a glance
  • 67II on the body; two CR123A cells under the battery cover
  • AE pentaprism finder 67II has a metering-pattern lever and an exposure-compensation dial with lock; the plain pentaprism 67II has neither

Pentax 67II:

  • Built-in right-hand grip moulded into the body, which no 6×7 or 67 has (camera-wiki; Ricoh Imaging)
  • LCD panel on the top plate showing frame count, ISO, film loading, battery and shutter cocking (camera-wiki)
  • Two CR123A lithium cells in place of the single 6V PX28 (Ricoh Imaging; camera-wiki)
  • 5P TTL flash socket beside the X socket; a time-exposure lever and a multiple-exposure lever on the body (Pentax 67II catalogue)
  • AE pentaprism finder 67II with LED display and a metering-pattern lever; it does not fit the 67 (camera-wiki)

Specifications

Format
55×70mm on 120 or 220 film (Pentax 67II catalogue); fixed back with a single start mark for both lengths · 10 on 120; 21 on 220 (Pentax 67II catalogue; camera-wiki: one more than the 67) exposures
Finder
interchangeable: AE pentaprism finder 67II (meter, aperture-priority AE, LED display), pentaprism finder 67II, folding hood 67II, fixed hood 67II · 0.75× magnification · 90% coverage
Shutter
electronically controlled horizontal-travel cloth focal plane; shutter locked with the power switch off · 1/1000–30s stepless in aperture-priority AE; 1/1000–4s in whole stops on manual; B; T by a dedicated lever (Ricoh Imaging spec page) · flash sync X at 1/30 and slower; TTL auto flash through 4P/5P contacts with the hot-shoe grip 67II; up to 1/500 with the LS 165mm leaf-shutter lens (Pentax 67II catalogue) · self-timer
Film advance
single-stroke lever, 190° with a 7° stand-off; advance and film-end shown on the LCD (Pentax 67II catalogue)
Back
fixed hinged back, 120 or 220; spool release levers on the base
Meter
none in the body; the AE pentaprism finder 67II meters TTL at full aperture with 6-segment, centre-weighted and spot (about 2.5% of the frame) patterns, EV 2–21 at ISO 100 with the 105mm f/2.4, ISO 6–6400, exposure compensation ±3 EV in thirds, memory lock (Ricoh Imaging)
Motor drive
Not compatible — No motor or winder offered
Weight
1210 g
Dimensions
185.5 × 108.5 × 92 body only (1,210g); 185.5 × 151 × 106 and 1,660g with the AE pentaprism finder 67II, no battery (Ricoh Imaging spec page and 67II catalogue) mm
Country
Japan
Original price
¥240,000 body without finder (¥252,000 including 5% consumption tax), AE pentaprism finder 67II ¥85,000, pentaprism ¥40,000 — Pentax 67II system catalogue, undated but 2004 or later; no launch price found
Accessories
AE pentaprism finder 67II; pentaprism finder 67II; folding hood 67II; fixed hood 67II · Focusing screens 67II: microprism-matte BA-61/BA-81, split-image BB-61/BB-81, matte BE-60/BE-80, grid BG-60/BG-80, grid-microprism BH-61/BH-81, grid-split BJ-61/BJ-81 · Hot-shoe grip 67II with 5P sync cord; wooden left-hand grip (67II version with 5P cable per camera-wiki); flashes AF540FGZ and AF360FGZ · Auto bellows 67II set; auto extension ring set (inner bayonet); extension ring set (outer bayonet); helicoid extension ring; reverse adapter 49mm · Rear converters 67 1.4× and 2×; adapters for 67 lenses on 645 and K bodies · Right-angle finder; magnifier; dioptre lenses 67II (−3, 0, +2); eyecup; cable releases 30 and 50; quick-focus rings

0.75× with the 105mm at infinity; 90% coverage with the AE pentaprism, 100% with the folding or fixed hood; dioptre adjustment on the AE prism, −2.5 to +1.5 per Jo Geier; interchangeable Natural Bright Matte screens, microprism-matte BA-61 standard (Pentax 67II catalogue)

Where sources disagree

First
  • November 1998 — Japanese Wikipedia model list, kakaku.com, Camera no Naniwa; 1998 — camera-wiki, Kosmo Foto, Vintage Camera Digest
  • 1999 — English Wikipedia, Jo Geier, Shoot It With Film, Dan Cuny

Better supported: 1998

The Japanese sources give the month; the 1999 dates likely reflect availability outside Japan.

Last
  • October 2009 — Japanese Wikipedia, Ishii Camera
  • September 2009 — Jo Geier

Better supported: 2009

What reviewers say

History

The 67II is what happens when the 1969 camera is rebuilt around electronics instead of renamed. Launched in November 1998 by the Japanese sources (1999 by most English ones), it keeps the horizontal cloth focal-plane shutter, the double bayonet, the 10-on-120 fixed back and the whole lens line, and changes the body around them: a right-hand grip moulded into the casting, an LCD on the top plate for the frame counter, ISO, film loading, battery and cocking state, two CR123A lithium cells in place of the PX28, a 12-second self-timer with a beeper, a dedicated time-exposure lever so long exposures no longer run the battery down, a multiple-exposure lever, and a 5P TTL flash socket beside the X socket. On 220 it counts 21 frames rather than the 67’s 20, from a single start mark for both film lengths.

The meter moved into a new finder. The AE pentaprism finder 67II reads through the lens at full aperture in three patterns, 6-segment, centre-weighted and a spot of about 2.5% of the frame, from EV 2 to 21 at ISO 100 with the 105mm f/2.4, and it is the only way to get aperture-priority AE: the body alone offers manual, bulb and time. In AE the shutter runs steplessly from 1/1000 to 30 seconds; on manual it runs 1/1000 to 4 seconds in whole stops. The finder shows 90% of the frame at 0.75× with the 105mm, has dioptre adjustment, an exposure-compensation dial with a lock and a memory-lock button, and does not fit a 67 (camera-wiki). The old chain coupling to the aperture is gone, which Patrick Medd counts as a reason to choose this body over the 67. Flash sync stays at 1/30, or up to 1/500 with the LS 165mm leaf-shutter lens.

Pentax’s figures are 1,210g for the body without finder and 1,660g with the AE prism, 185.5 × 108.5 × 92mm bare and 185.5 × 151 × 106mm with the prism. The system catalogue, undated but listing the AF540FGZ flash and therefore 2004 or later, prices the body without finder at ¥240,000 and the AE prism at ¥85,000; no launch price was found. Production ended in 2009, October by Japanese Wikipedia and Ishii Camera, September by Jo Geier, and the 645NII went at the same time.

Identification is immediate: no other Pentax 6×7 body has the moulded grip or the LCD. The AE prism is told from the plain pentaprism 67II by its metering-pattern lever and compensation dial. What to check follows from the electronics. Jo Geier’s warning is that the 67II is full of them and that they struggle in cold and humidity, with parts and repairs harder to come by than for the mechanical bodies; Sunrise Camera still calls mirror shock severe enough to use mirror-up as a habit; Medd’s copy has a dioptre knob that drifts, and every reviewer mentions the loading. The rest of the reviewers’ list is the format’s, not the model’s: ten frames a roll, no interchangeable backs, a loud shutter, and 1/30 sync. Weight is the one complaint that eases: with the grip and the meter built in, James Tang found it not much heavier than his 645NII, and Medd calls it a camera that handles like a 35mm SLR.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Photographs

Pentax 67II
Pentax 67II with the AE pentaprism finder — Evgeniy Alexeev, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Pentax 67II
Pentax 67II body without finder: the moulded grip and the top-plate LCD — Evgeniy Alexeev, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Live listings

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Related: Pentax 645 · Pentax 6×7 / 67

Lenses for this body: Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4 · SMC Pentax 67 165mm f/2.8 · Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 200mm f/4 · SMC Pentax 6×7 / 67 45mm f/4 · SMC Pentax 6×7 / 67 55mm f/4 · Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 75mm f/4.5 · SMC Takumar LS / SMC Pentax 6×7 / 67 90mm f/2.8

Sources (15)

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