> There is so much on this forum about DSLRs Dear Dick. Definitely each list develops a personality of it's own and your observations just confirm this fact.
May I suggest that you take a look at the ProRental list to explore discussions on multishot cameras? I have to warn you it is a suggestion, not a reccomendation per se. What I mean is that prorental List owner and sole moderator handles things in peculiar ways, but you will find a few highly skilled fellows working with digibacks, both single and multishots, some have tried and tested most of the available high end equipments in the market and might even help you decide if the Sinar 54 is the best option for multishot and your type of work. Some Prodiggers also participate there every once in a while. Check this out at http://lists.prorental.com/mailman/listinfo/prorental > When I asked how many contributors did serious work for the type of serious > customer who, pre-digital, would have insisted on 54+, few replied. > I hope to buy a Sinar M, P3 and 54H, but maybe not until I have sold my > (empty) house. I entirely disagree with your concepts here. I can't be more serious about my work and my clients, and they are not joking at all when dealing with their own things, but budget issues impose limits to what can be and can't be done on an altogether serious assignment from a serious client. Even in the Sinar film cameras era, I did not move my equipment if the client was not willing to pay for full insurance during the time of the assignment , to include full protection during transport of the equipment and full replacement of lost or damaged parts,plus all incurred real expenses (including camera/digital assistant). Many clients would find out they did not actually need a 4x5 shot at all when realizing how much money and investment I was putting available to them and how much more expensive it was to do it like that, when in reality medium format ( with some tilting/shfting) was enough for their needs. On the issue of costs, I would by no means move a scan back or multishot out of a studio without equivalent insurance and expense considerations, so your cost, your REAL cost of doing those shootings out of the studio are entirely covered by your serious client. They add a good deal of money to your creative services. You are selling a house to get one such digiback, so re-calculate your numbers accordingly! > > I hope to use Multishot whenever practicable, but appreciate the problem of > waving trees in Architecture/landscape. Some would do an additional single shot to then use the frozen tree masked over the multishot image of the structure. I would leave the moving thing going on as I am currently doing with some indoor gardens, terraces and the like( and I am not using multishots!). Shangara said: > give a Canon PowerShot to a master photographer > and get ready to drool over his 2mpx images! ;-) I ( for a change) agree with Shangara here: there are so many photogs who show me their photos and inmediately want me to notice how tack sharp their images are, how technically perfect the print is,etc,etc, and not a word about creativity/photography comes out of those discussions and I wonder why so many are letting digital turn them into technicians and put aside the photographic/ creativity side of it all... I still love Man Ray's words when he said that we have to treat the media we use to express ourselves with some disrespect. Best. Jorge Parra =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
