Leaf should make a 640 x 480 touch screen. Look at Nikon D300 or D3, their 3" screen are so fine. Cannot believe a $36000 Leaf Afi7 uses such a horrible screen
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All of the medium format back screens I have used have a "challanged" preview in comparison to the dslrs.
A lot of this is just the preview in the file which doesn't seem to have a great deal of processing.
At low iso, under softer light they all read pretty well, but with direct light and bright highlights they blow out.
At high iso the preview can be a snow storm as there is no noise reduction applied (I guess).
I shoot medium format tethered about 90% of the time and honestly it shouldn't matter though it can be a shock to look at the lcd and see blow out, then look over at the computer and see that everything is fine, or even the white are underexposed rather than over.
I think this comes from the original mindset that medium format was origianlly studio oriented, dslrs were for location or sports and now they have somewhat merged as dslrs are used in studio tethered and medium format is used on location.
For the "next" upgrade in medium format I would love to see better useable previews as well as better lcds. Larger doesn't help much if the preview is goofy and in fact the little Leica M8 produces one of the best previews of any camera and the zoom feature is probably the easiest and most functional to use.
Before medium format just tacks on a larger screen, there is a lot more that needs to be adressed. All the backs should have a preview visable when tethered. The Phase does this, the Leaf doesn't and my 1ds2 doesn't. This is a huge time saver and keeps the photographer from running over to the computer every 10 shots to see if it's in range.
Also the software in medium format needs much more adjustment.
Last week I finished up tethered to 3.78 and running a hot folder to Lightroom. It's not that lightroom produces a superior file, but it does allow a preset that shows a client/AD a much closer representation of how a file will looked when finally worked in photoshop, since you can really adjust all the tones and even vignette.
Working this way is a little cumbersome as the lightroom previews are way behind 3.78 in speed, but on an ad shoot where you want the AD to go Wow, rather than "uh ok now are you going to change this in post", software from the medium format manufacturers should have all the useability of a program like lightroom.
Really it would be better if there was more standards in setting up a file. V4 doesn't read the settings in 3.78, lightroom doesn't read any settings other than white balance and iso and even those are different.
In fact it would be great if you could set a preset look in lightroom, photoshop, v4, whatever and then just apply those to the back where whatever you shoot looks the same from camera lcd to computer screen.
JR