Posted by Bill Pelzmann on March 11, 2006 at 1:52 PM
I found Reichman's extensive article on his new medium format digital view camera very interesting reading - especially the Rodenstock HR (high resolution) digital lenses.
Maybe in 10 years the prices will drop to where mere mortals might be able to think about this option.
He also concludes:
"....in prints up to 13X19" I often did not see significant real world differences between work done with the 1Ds MKII using my best Canon lenses, and the Contax with P25 and Zeiss lenses. Yes, I know that the P25 is true 16 bit, yes I know that the photosites are larger, yes and know all the other theoretical advantages. What I'm describing is not theory, it's practice. But the operative phrase here is "best Canon lenses", because with the Zeiss primes on the Contax compared with almost all the Canon zooms (which I mostly use for convenience sake) it was the opposite story."
Posted by Scott Bacon on March 11, 2006 at 5:13 PM
Ya, I'd have to sell both my cars and my 5 acres of mountain property to afford that setup.
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1 repliesMaybe in 10 years the prices will drop to where mere mortals might be able to think about this option.
http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/digital-view.shtml
He also concludes:
"....in prints up to 13X19" I often did not see significant real world differences between work done with the 1Ds MKII using my best Canon lenses, and the Contax with P25 and Zeiss lenses. Yes, I know that the P25 is true 16 bit, yes I know that the photosites are larger, yes and know all the other theoretical advantages. What I'm describing is not theory, it's practice. But the operative phrase here is "best Canon lenses", because with the Zeiss primes on the Contax compared with almost all the Canon zooms (which I mostly use for convenience sake) it was the opposite story."