Phase One production numbers - doing well!

[DesW]

Thank you

So would there be a EH103 and EI103, as well as EK103 and EJ103? Any Phase rep know that?

Hmm , Well our P65+ Numbers start EJ021  not 100. Phase told us they start Sensor plus upgrades  this month.

Des W

[Justinr]

No, the doom and gloom on medium format is their own doing and the small medium format industry has been telling us forever why we can't have certain features (see LCD) why backs have to be proprietary to one camera make by the mount (well most of them) and fights tooth and nail to take market share away from each other rather than expand the medium format market altogether

Quite so. They have been terrified of the big two in dSLR's so rather than get out there and sell something that in many ways is a superior product they have simply sat in a corner and whimpered. Canon and Nikon have targeted the MF market ruthlessly by simply boasting of ever increasing pixel counts and presenting spec sheets that are of little use to anyone except serial techi masturbaters. Personally I find one of the great attractions of dMF is its simplicity, just you, the meter and the camera. For too long cameras have been sold on the bells and whistle count rather than the style and quality of photography they engender. Go to an event, show or other attraction and you will see hordes of folk wandering around with their dSLR's hanging proudly round their neck, but watch these people carefully and you will see that they are all taking the same picture, head height and straight ahead, obviously believing that the camera will then work it's magic and produce a 'photograph' rather than just another slightly better exposed snap. Can't blame them for believing it for that is what Canon, Nikon et al have been telling them.

There is one rather interesting development though and that is the 4/3 format which may well come to threaten the consumer end of the CanNik duopoly just as they are busily eating up the MF market. I think they are very well aware of this and are already fighting back for I cannot get a dealer in either of these brands two to talk sensibly about the new kid on the block.

Justin.

[narikin]

So would there be a EH103 and EI103, as well as EK103 and EJ103? Any Phase rep know that?

this is not complicated:
first there is the mount type as a letter code, like Doug's post gave: EJ, EK, etc.
then there is another two/three numbers that indicate...  year? batch?
then the final 3 numbers are the sequential production # of the back. (and it seems to start at 001, not 100, or at least it did for P45's)

hence the estimate that they are in the 500 range for P65+ Mamiya fits already.
what would be nice is to hear of some early adopter with a P65+ in the low serial # range to confirm.

Phase One has sold 1 x p65+ in Denmark and 4 in Sweden so far!

I feel this suspect information, especially given that it is Phase's home territory.

[DesW]

this is not complicated:
first there is the mount type as a letter code, like Doug's post gave: EJ, EK, etc.
then there is another two/three numbers that indicate...  year? batch?
then the final 3 numbers are the sequential production # of the back. (and it seems to start at 001, not 100, or at least it did for P45's)

hence the estimate that they are in the 500 range for P65+ Mamiya fits already.
what would be nice is to hear of some early adopter with a P65+ in the low serial # range to confirm.


I feel this suspect information, especially given that it is Phase's home territory.

Ha!, Like the fabled old Hasselblad ID system

VHPICTURES

Des