Thanks a lot!
Dario
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From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Papug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: [OT] Mamiya ZD presentation
Today, thanks to the biggest Polish photo portal I had an opportunity
to be on official Polish presentation of Mamiya ZD - for these who
are not aware - 22 megapixel medium format DSLR ;-) The camera
appeared to be a very interesting tool for professional photographers
(with its price around 10000 Euros it won't rather find place among
amateurs ;-) The body had some nice features like dual card slots (CF
and SD), had good ergonomics, felt very nice in hand especially that
it is around size and weight of Pentax 645 - this means around size
and weigth of hi-end 35 mm bodies. Just LCD was far too small for
today's standards - only 1.8". With camera there was presented Mac
software for it, enabling "tethered shooting" (taking photographs and
sending them directly to computer) among other interesting features.
ZD 120/4 macro lens was mounted on ZD, and while it was top
performing glass 9See samples below), I was less than impressed by
its build quality - one class lower than Pentax FA645 120/4 macro.
During presentation visitors had an opportunity to try the camera
themselves. You could take either macro photos of car model or do
some portraits of model. Fortunately I had my SD card with me so I
gave ZD a try taking shots of beautiful model. Photos were saved as
RAWs (MEF format - each file around 35 MB), then converted to .DNG
and slightly edited in Lightroom to be finally exported as high
quality JPEGs. If you are interested in how good can look photos from
22 MPix MF DSLR you can download them from my page. I put two samples
with low-res previews as target linked photos are ~4 MB each
compressed (61 MB after decompression) so it is better to save them
to your local disk and open in your favourite photo editing
application. Colour space of target photos is Adobe RGB. Here they are:
http://nasdwoje.e9.pl/pictures/MamiyaZD.html
Of cource for hardcore lovers - I can send RAWs straigth from the
camera ;-)
Now let's wait for presentation and samples from Pentax 645D. I bet
it can be even more impressive machine than ZD ;-)
Cheers,
Sylwek
