Even if MF might not give you a much much better IQ compared to the dsIII, which is a discussable thing, MF will give you an other and in my eyes much better approach to your work. It slows things down, it makes you focus more on your subject, it gives your work a rhythm to it, and taking pictures of people is a lot about rhythm I think.
As for yout initial question, as I am a phase shooter as well (P30+ & P45+, used to shhot the p25 as well), maybe it's apples to oranges, but I would recommend the leaf afi 6. Ok, the dalsa might be different, but I don't think its a real different story. and the P45+ at ISO 400 does not work for me at all, 200 only with a lot of good will. I always use the 30 when I need more stops.
Waiting for a bigger chip? even if they announce one at the kina, it will take maybe 6 more months still you can actually buy one, and that thing will have it's price. So if you are already on a budget...
I stopped waiting for things, better shoot today.
nice pics btw, esp the last two
cheers,
martin
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If you read these forums and compare them to the press releases from all the camera makers your going to get a lot of the world is flat syndrome. Some think one camera is an absolute necessity, the other group will feel the exact opposite.
Unless you shoot for commerce and you absolutely must have a larger image with better tethering today, then I would strongly suggest testing all of the backs with a few of the faster lenses.
I've had the A-22, A65, P21+, p30(+) and they all have slightly different characteristics depending on the lighting and the subject.
All digital seems to me to be ambient color sensitive, expecially when shooting in open shade, open windows, like you showed in your images.
The Canons will pick up colors from afar, but the medium format backs are even more color sensitive than the canons and depending on the lens, the back, the subjects skin tone some are very difficult to produce a beautiful skin tone. Light translucent skin is the hardest, especially for the A-22, even under direct strobe, and under open shade with subtle fill light they all can pick up a lot of color bounce, especially in nature.
Learning some different processors will change this as C-1 V4 does a better job on skin than 3.78, though Raw Developer even is more controllable for certain skin types.
Actually I think Raw Developer has the best overall skin reproduction of any software I have used and I pretty much use them all.
I find it interesting that your willing to invest heavily in medium format, but haven't tried different lenses for your Canon. The 50 1.2 is a very nice lens and the 85 1.2 and 1.8 are great lenses, and very different in characteristics. The Zeiss lenses also have a different look and feel than most of the Canons and I think there are stop down adpaters.
If you want to slow down the process you can also add a right angle finder to the Canons, though it is a somewhat cheap plastic device that has to be gaffer taped on for security, it does work and gives you a different perspective.
If your canons won't focus, send them to Canon and they will calibrate the lenses to the body.
There is a lot of ways to improve your work and the camera is just one of them, though I think the major stumbling block with most of medium format is the ability to try different glass on different bodies.
After saying all of this I have a friend in LA that is a serious amateur who has pretty much owned all of the dslrs. He bought a Contax and was trying to find a back, so I sent him my P30+ for a few days to try it and he just bought one and returned his 1ds Mark III.
This doesn't mean it's a ringing endorsement to buy a P30 or any medium format back, but before you make the investment, find a few dealers that will let you exactly test what you exactly want to shoot, on the exact camera platform you want to shoot with before making the investment.
JR
