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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: RE: OT New 39MP MF backs
All well and good, but these items don't seem like they're for the average
guy on the street, mostly for studio players. Pentax would do well to
come
out with a smaller, lighter, more transportable, easier to carry,
med-format digi, something to simply and economically replace the various
film-based med format cameras that are out there.
Am I missing something wrt these Phase One backs?
The 645 itself wqas not really marketed to studio photographers. It was
Pentax's forray into high quality imaging at a more transportable size than
the 6x7. The untended user was nature photographers, and they were flogged
pretty hard at them.
Hasselblad always seemed to be going after the fashion market, Mamiya the
studio portrait market, etc.
While one shouldn't try to pigeon hole a product line, there is lots of
cross contamination of purpose, this was how they were marketed.
It does seem to me that somewhere out there, there are a heck of a lot of
645 lenses sitting around, perhaps being underutilized.
Whether the 645 lenses are suited to digital, I just do not know.
William Robb
