[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Digital" is alive and well in medium format (6 x 6) and 4 x 5 large format.
> Both are hideously expensive to operate, a 1 pass digital back for a
> Hasselblad going for $35,000 and up, 4 x 5 about $10,000 more. That's just
> for the 1 pass back. Add the camera, lenses and HMI (studio grade) lighting
> (you do want flicker free lighting, right?) at $15,000 a pair and you see why
> small format digital, no matter how it pleases the Bride or ones family,
> still is and will always produce the puny results one gets from small format
> digital, with very little hope of catching the real digital photographers.
Well, progress is doin' its thing. Recently I had a look at the new
system from Megavision, a a digital back system for medium or large
format cameras. Yes, it's still expensive as all get-out ($25,000
Canadian, lop a third of that off for US money), but it's pretty
functional, and designed with weddings and location style shooting in mind.
First off, you are required to wear an object the size of a larger flash
battery pack on your belt...this is the processing and storage system.
As a result, tho, the part attached to the camera is the same size as a
regular Hasselblad magazine.
I saw good 8x10s from it. I saw adequate cropped 8x10s (probably
equivalent to half of the frame), so that's the limit of the system,
barring the use of some interpolation software.
It shoots one frame every 1.2 seconds, and will work with regular
strobe/flash. The belt pack uses the microdrive for storage, and
apparently changing discs is quite simple.
Currently, this system is in use over at Networks (a catalogue studio in
Toronto). In that situation, I can see how digital would be appealing,
particularly because of the savings on film processing and the quickness
and ease of giving "proofs" to the client via e-mail.
Anyhow, just some numbers. Anyone who wants to buy one, contact me
off-list. ;)
-Aaron
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