... or try a Lumix 10 MPx: it is light too!
I can carry mine while holding my daughter.
Thierry
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To me this is how you sell a camera, especially a new system.
[a href=\"http://www.red.com/store]http://www.red.com/store[/url]
Listed here is everything you need to buy, know and price to get into 4k film quality cinema.
No astericks of product to come, no call the dealer pricing, no waiting.
In fact the whole red site has a full forum with the good and the bad, shows major work that was just completed with the system and once again pricing.
Theirry, go to the Sinar site and find this information abou the HY6. Do you know how many potential buyers write on these forums the words "I'm waiting on pricing and availability from my dealer".
What I really don't understand is the price model of this vs. most medium format cameras.
How can a full 4k cinema digital body clock in at $17,500 but a still digital back can easily go to 30 grand and it is only the mid range digital backs that go for under 20k?
Is it economy of scale, is it dealer markup, or is the price of medium format, especially for something like the HY6 just because the expecations are to sell less product so the pricing must be high to recover the costs?
You see it on this forum all the time, people scouring e-bay, KEH and everywhere to find lens deals so they can keep their investment smart.
There is something to be said about knowing how much, when and where.
I've done the thing of walking into one of the U.S.'s largest camera stores dead set on buying a medium format camera, only to leave because at the time they had nothing to show, nothing that was available at the moment.
Actually, the old Contax site had more information on it than most of the mediuum format maker's sites and since Contax is gone it just took one more click to KEH to find everything I needed.
Your company isn't alone in this as even Phase with their new announced 645 just showed one lens, no comprehensive pricing, no full accessories page, etc. etc.
Also notice one other thing about the Red camera, there is no mention of this deal only good until March 2008.
Why does medium format always offer deals that are time stamped and I guess that would be ok if the moment you wrote the check the product shipped, but that is not always the case.
I don't know any photographer that can tell a client they have to wait to shoot their job because the camera isn't ready to ship.
Personally, I believe the company that wins in the camera wars is the company that offers everything at the best price point that can be purchased immediatly, with full knowledge of what is to come in the future, how much and when.
Medium format has it all backwards. Why is it that every medium format owner I know owns a Canon as a backup. Actually, the pricing, availaibity, speed (mostly pricing) have almost insured that anyone owning a digital back must buy a Canon.
The company that can change that premise to the thought of anyone considering a high end dslr, must own a digital back will do well.
JR