Hello,
Even thought I have a Nikon D800E on order if Nikon do install this technology into a Nikon D4x I will be buying this camera model as well. All of my new camera equipment purchases are now in Nikon equipment. As for my business is concerned medium format photography is now obsolete and antiquated.
Cheers
Simon
Simon,
I know your a smart guy that shoots beautiful work and I'm sure you buy what you need, though I've come to the conclusion in all forms of digital capture . . . if it ain't broke, don't change it.
In regards to still cameras, every year or so I added the latest, or the different, from all brands and now, I see only a small gain in final delivery.
Sure the D800 looks tempting, so did the d3x, but with the Canon 1ds3's I'm pretty much zoned in them and don't have s single client that knows if it's a 22mpx file, a 31mpx file, or probably even 40 mpx. I can see the difference in the non AA filtered Medium format backs I own and the Leica, but to the client . . . they care more about the content or style of the shot than anything they see by zooming in at 200%.
Now I say this, but as we have moved heavily into motion I got sucked back in. First a 5d2 with add ons that cost more than the cameras and a few lenses, then a panasonic for a crash cam, our first RED One, a second RED One for backup, a DIT station that almost needs it's own van, then a Sony for quick autofocus, graphics cards, large raids, expensive software, more monitors, more comput . . . well you get the idea and honestly I should have stopped at the RED 1's and left it at that because I reach for them 95% of the time.
But no, as soon as I said out loud, "that's enough" I ordered an Epic, though woke up a little, changed that to a Scarlet, which I rarely use.
So once again, new rule. If it's not billable, isn't a must have I'll hold off and put our resource where needed.
Now the funny thing is one of the most stylistic movies I've seen in a long time, Wes Anderson's moonlight kingdom, is shot super 16. Now that's funny, or ironic, or maybe just bloody brilliant, because if anyone had told me that in 2012 with 90% of all media shown in some form of digital display that anyone would be pointing a 16mm camera at any A list actor, I'd have thought I was transported back a decade or more.
Last week I was in a book store in Santa Monica and bought a beautiful quarterly periodical that had new photography about california culture, most shot on transparency film, all with a beautiful color pallete and look. A look that would take me two weeks in post if I shot it digital capture.
Now . . . should I buy an Aaeton, and start dusting off my film still cameras?
Hmm.
All the best.
BC
