47656 Eckington 19 June 1989

47656 crosses the River Avon at Eckington on 16 June 1989 with the 1V59 12:10 Glasgow Central to Plymouth InterCity service, which it had taken over at Birmingham New Street. Note how shallow the depth of field is. The detail the Pentax 6x7 has recorded on the subject is fantastic (at least on the high-res version!), but the foreground is far from sharp. It was this, rather than the oft quoted (but quite true) comment about the camera's enormous weight, that was the Pentax 6x7's biggest problem.