Hello all: With the announcement of the Mamiya ZD coming to market soon, I was wondering if anyone has thoughts about the estimated price for the Mamiya digital back. A couple of years back I decided to move from 35mm to medium format and picked up a Mamiya 645 AFD. My thinking was take a few years and get use to using this camera and see what happens with digital backs. Now with Mamiya announcing the ZD for around $10,000, what do you think they will offer the back alone for. I would guess it would have to be less than the whole ZD, and if the estimated production cost by Dalsa is about $4,000 for the sensor (guessed at by Michael R.) then does $7,000 to 8,000 sound reasonable? Do you all think Mamiya will only produce the 22 mp back or may they come out with a 16 or 12 mp back. Of course, like everyone else I will wait and see but its fun to speculate. If they did come out with a 22mp back for existing 645 AFD cameras and it is around that $7-8,000 figure....what might that do to Phase One prices etc.? Let me know what you have heard...thanks
Tom
