At the end of the day this could hurt all of us. Lets not even mention the guy or gal that spent 32 k last month on a H339 and today his investment lost 10k in 30 days or more and even less. sorry folks that freaking hurts the resale on that back big time. i had a friend listing his H39 that he had 3 months for 22k and he pulled it off the market. Now he is stuck or takes a huge bath on it. nice to see lower prices i agree but not at the sake of burning your own customers and the industry.
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Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but this is the strangest argument I have heard for keeping camera prices high.
So somebody lost 10k on a camera back.
My first Aptus 22 after 1 years use only sold for $8,000 so there was much more than a 10k loss. No big deal because none of these cameras are real investments, other than improving your business so I didn't really expect to see the Aptus appreciate in price. I used it, made money with it, sold it.
I just don't get it. People have been complaining about the price (and usability) of medium format for years and finally some maker cuts prices and now people complain about that.
Regardless, if medium format wants to worry, they shouldn't worry about Hasselblad, they should worry about Nikon or Canon.
Last Sunday I did a processing test where I was trying to get 800 or 1600 iso out of my p30+ for a gig coming up. (I'll post those results later).
Anyway, while I was doing it I thought I'd shoot the P30+ and the 1ds3 and even the little Nikon D90 at the same time. Now this is an unscientific test so none of the pixel peepers start screaming about lenses and focus points, etc.
I was just curious at full rez, 200 iso how the Nikon D90 did and while I was at it I threw in a 1ds3 shot.
Now, by all rights and measures the canon and Nikon aren't quite as good as the p30+ but even the little $900 Nikon was damn good and the Canon is 1/2 the price of the P30+, the Nikon 1/15th the price.
Imagine if Nikon comes out with the MX that is 4 times the size and twice the quality of this little camera.
(warning 16mb download).
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Now does this mean I'm going to shoot my next gig with a N-90 . . . no. But could I . . . yea probably.
JR