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« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2009, 02:21:00 pm »

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another new medium format camera that I'm testing that's going to knock everyone's socks off.

Pentax ?
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« Reply #21 on: November 30, 2009, 03:42:39 pm »

Has to be the new RED !
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« Reply #22 on: November 30, 2009, 05:02:16 pm »

Nope, and nope.  

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« Reply #23 on: November 30, 2009, 05:21:27 pm »

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We'll be shooting another video this week on another new medium format camera that I'm testing that's going to knock everyone's socks off.
But not Phase One or Leica or Pentax or RED, and given MR's comments in recent years, probably not Hasselblad.
He did not say digital medium format did he? It must be the new Fujifilm/Voigtlander Bessa III folder!
http://www.voigtlaender.de/cms/voigtlaende...fdih7jzkae.html
This is surely the ultimate (as in last, final) 6x7 camera that will ever be released.
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« Reply #24 on: November 30, 2009, 05:48:33 pm »

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I've done these before.

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We'll be shooting another video this week on another new medium format camera that I'm testing that's going to knock everyone's socks off. (The camera, not necessarily the video).

Michael


BIG CALL!~ -
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« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2009, 06:18:56 pm »

It's not a Hasselblad, but any time they want to send me something new for review I'll be more than pleased to do as objective a report as possible.

Now that Christian is gone, maybe there's room for a renewed relationship. He wasn't exactly my biggest fan.

I'd welcome it in fact.

Michael
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« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2009, 06:33:45 pm »

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It's not a Hasselblad, but any time they want to send me something new for review I'll be more than pleased to do as objective a report as possible.
I am sure you would. I was just noting that it has been a very long time since any Hasselblad offering inspired you to use a phrase like "knock everyone's socks off", and I have not see any signs of changes from Hasselblad sufficient to change that.


In fact, it is an interesting question to put to high end digital camera users:

What innovations would knock your socks off? (Please, no Sci-Fi: stay within the laws of physics!)
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« Reply #27 on: November 30, 2009, 06:40:05 pm »

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Nope, and nope.  
Contax 645 MKII?  
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« Reply #28 on: November 30, 2009, 06:43:30 pm »

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It's not a Hasselblad, but any time they want to send me something new for review I'll be more than pleased to do as objective a report as possible.
Now that Christian is gone, maybe there's room for a renewed relationship. He wasn't exactly my biggest fan.

I met him once; he seemed like an incredibly intelligent guy, and passionate about his mission. I was very impressed.

I just hope he got "closure" in his relationship with Hasselblad, before he departed.

(Come on, you know that everyone had that sentence run through their head when they read that announcement. Has it been long enough now that someone can actually say it?)
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« Reply #29 on: November 30, 2009, 06:43:51 pm »

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I am sure you would. I was just noting that it has been a very long time since any Hasselblad offering inspired you to use a phrase like "knock everyone's socks off", and I have not see any signs of changes from Hasselblad sufficient to change that.


In fact, it is an interesting question to put to high end digital camera users:

What innovations would knock your socks off? (Please, no Sci-Fi: stay within the laws of physics!)

A back with 40-60Mp, Live View and usable ISO 1600 ^^ (As long as base IQ stays the same or gets better)
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« Reply #30 on: November 30, 2009, 07:10:11 pm »

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Contax 645 MKII?  


Who needs a MkII?  

I would put  Contax 645 with P65+  up against any system out there. Perfect? hell no. damn good? you bet!
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« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2009, 07:26:31 pm »

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Who needs a MkII?  
I would put  Contax 645 with P65+  up against any system out there. Perfect? hell no. damn good? you bet!
I think everyone agrees that the simplicity of the Contax 645 is great. So the lenses and the accessories are.
Still I can imagine 1 to 10 things that could be improved. AF speed and AF accuracy ... the new Hasselblad AF recompose thing would also be very nice.
But if Michael says there's a new MF camera "that's going to knock everyone's socks off" I guess it's a CMOS based camera/back with live view and better high ISO performance (maybe at the price of slight losses in IQ at base ISO) ... otherwise I don't think it would knock anyone's socks off.
A 43.4MP, 1,7 fps, ISO320 MFD would not be very interesting...


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« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2009, 07:40:55 pm »

Maybe it's that mythical Nikon MX-whatever...
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« Reply #33 on: November 30, 2009, 07:57:24 pm »

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Maybe it's that mythical Nikon MX-whatever...


I'm pretty sure we will see a Sony before the Nikon. However I guess it is none. We would have heard a lot more if it was.
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« Reply #34 on: November 30, 2009, 08:43:27 pm »

I wrote camera, not back.

In any event, enough guessing and enough said.

Michael
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« Reply #35 on: November 30, 2009, 09:02:29 pm »

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I wrote camera, not back.

In any event, enough guessing and enough said.

Michael

when will we get to see that video?
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« Reply #36 on: November 30, 2009, 11:58:51 pm »

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Nope, and nope.  

Michael


PLEASE. PLEASE, PLEASE be Nikon or Canon. Enough already with this silly, buggy, low iso, featureless MF.
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« Reply #37 on: December 01, 2009, 03:24:19 am »

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PLEASE. PLEASE, PLEASE be Nikon or Canon. Enough already with this silly, buggy, low iso, featureless MF.

Rogan,

I've heard two rumors.  

First is a new Leica S3 with a 16 shot buffer, tethering through Windows Media Player.

Second is Phase bought Bronica.

Not so sure how true they are, but both sound like a positive move.

BC
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« Reply #38 on: December 01, 2009, 04:12:02 am »

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I wrote camera, not back.

In any event, enough guessing and enough said.

Michael

Michael, you are such a teaser!

I'm guessing you'll blow everyone away with your review of the unannounced 1Ds MK IV @ 28Mp
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« Reply #39 on: December 01, 2009, 04:31:10 am »

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First is a new Leica S3 with a 16 shot buffer, tethering through Windows Media Player.

Coot,

That was exactly where I had my money: on the new Leica S3! At the rate that we now have these leapfrogging models, why not have Mr. Reichmann review the S2 one week, and then, the next week, bring out the S3 before the S2 even ships. As they say in those Guinness tv ads: "Brilliant!" Rumor has it that the S3 body retails at $37,995 with the 30-day warranty, and the new updated RAW rezzes in in a blazing twelve seconds. And the S4 is due out by summer.


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