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From: "Ryan K. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Okay. Assume you're making a living with commercial photography. That
means you had to buy a camera that could output digital for your clients.
If it's MF shooting, then you had to sell your Pentax 645 or 67 to buy
something that would take a digital back. Now you're supposed to sell
that to come back to a brand that abandoned the commercial market? Yeah,
right.
Not to mention, you can't take your back with you! And that means you
can't take advantage of dropping sensor prices and improving technology as
much as your neighbor with a backless, digital friendly MF camera can.
You forget that the digital back cost 2-3 times the price of a digital
camera. And that you are stuck with that same old camera. You also forget
that hardly anyone in the grand scheme of things are using digital backs
anyway. Digital backs aren't exactly hot selling items. The digital MF
market is wide open.
In my opinion, discussing digital MF backs impact for digital photography is
like discussing 8X10 camera impact for film photography. Both are highly
specialized items for the very few.
Digital backs will not either experience the same potential sensor price
drops because the potential for sales volume is extremely limited. Making
accessories for cameras not longer selling due to their unpopularity can
never compete with a dedicated modern dSLR. Just like that digital back for
the Leica R8 is no match for Nikon or Canon (or Pentax for that matter).
Or if they migrated to Canon or Nikon FF or APSc, then there's not going
to buy Pentax 645 stuff again.
Why not? The wast majority of those buying the pentax 645 came from higher
end Nikon and Canons. They did it to get better image quality. People do
switch camera systems and Pentax isn't exclusively something you switch
from. If a Pentax dsLR can deliver a sensor twice the size of a canon and
with much better dynamic range, why shouldn't it be viable if the price is
right?
of course, if the price isn't right it doesn't stand a chance, just like the
Mamiya ZD.
Pål
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