I guess I'm not part of "we all." Could you please explain who Jenoptic is? (I understand they used to own 51% of Sinar, that they sold to Leica.)
Could you provide a link to somewhere that explains that Jenoptic and not Rollei is developing the Hy6?
Thanks!
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If I've learned anything about digital capture in the last few years is the bottom line is don't get caught up in the bleeding edge of it all.
It's just too difficult running a business, moving your art and constantly buying, upgrading, learning just to start the whole process over again.
I could write a book on my chronicles from digital capture starting with the Kodak 760 to the Leaf Aptus, and each camera, each new upgrade took hundreds of hours to learn and digest.
Today, after Photokina you would think the world has ended, now that Hasselblad has decided to go their own propreitary way.
Personally I think thier decision is good for our industry because it forces positive change. Many people will explore past systems and as we see Leaf and Sinar will develope new ones.
But for anyone to say they have to wait and see what shakes out before making a decision to me makes no sense.
Leaf, Phase, Sinar and Imablad all make backs that will go on at least 7 medium format cameras that offer huge lens selections at bargain basement prices.
Some like the Contax are easier because they have a digital interface, others like the RZ are more difficult because they require adpater plates, but all of them work and continue to work as easily as they did with film.
It's funny that eveyrone bitches about the cost of medium format digital, but on the other hand feels lost unless there is a brand new camera platform available. Problem is the last brand new camera platform costs as much as a good digital back, by the time a few lenses were added.
I have a Contax with 9 lenses, two bodies, for around the same cost as a 1ds2 and one good lens.
I still use the Aptus 22 and can promise you it has all the resolution (and more) than any client has asked for and I will be using it for another 2 to 3 years, maybe more. I recently bought an A-65 just for a little higher iso and as a backup and for a long time I should be set.
I guess we can all get caught up in this, but as of today I think we have more options than ever before and if you pick the right system and you can get more than great value from it, you can get where you were in the film days where you had one system that lasted a large part of your career.
Just because Hasselblad or Leaf or Phase writes a new PDF doesn't mean that what your using today magically quit working.
I constantly read that C-1 is the only useable software, the Leaf file is more film like, or the Hasselblad is more integrated. Truth be told, most of these systems are very good, some In my opinion better, but all very good.
The trick is finding what works for you, developing a fast workflow and getting back to what your true love is, which is making photographs.
I have a simple workflow useing Leaf V-8 for tethering, which btw is very fast and rock stable, I-view for editing and sorting and pscs1 for batching.
In the world of digital this may seem like a step backward but unless you've learned and tried V-8 you don't really know how fast and stable tethering can be. The upside of the small embedded tiffs in the Leaf file is they sort very fast in I-view and though Adobe would love to see us all move to the next CS2,3,4,5,6,, CS1 processes my files film like and even on an old G4 powerbook will batch process a file in 17 seconds.
I hope the new Leaf/Sinar HY6 is a success, I hope hasselblad improves their backs and would love nothing more than to see Phase assist Mamiya into making a world class product. That is good for all of us, but keep in mind that if technology absolutely stopped today, there would still be beautiful photographs produced with what is available.
In the last few weeks nothing changed for the worst. It probably got better.
IMO
JR
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