1 second is a long time in Fashion.
But then they used to shoot MF fashion quite well in the old days with Blads, too.
The real issue is price, as we all know. The backs simply cost too much. I expect Mamiya to come out with an improved 22MP camera with good file depth for Photokina and then we'll all be queuing up to buy it.
Edmund
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most flash packs do not recycle under one second, and yes none of the MF cameras advanced film that fast (other then Rollei) and manually is about one second (not counting steadying oyurself after whipping the cranck:)...)
price is not really the issue..we can see that with the ZD...and now aptus17 are sold at 7500$ (refurb.)...of course if there was a 22mpix back at 5000 they would sell quite a few, but that is not realistic yet and even if it was why should they? canon was thinking about dropping the price of their flagship 1Ds from 8000 to 5000 when the nikons came out (and the kodak was half the price)...they waited to see and found out that even at 8000 they could not keep them in stock...
anyone waiting for a serious pricebreak will be disapointed...last years backs will always be cheaper then the top of the line (see aptus17 which is a real bargain..less then the new canon will be and still better no matter how many pix they can squeeze onto 24x36...)
one of the advantages of the dalsa chip is that the backs can be design in a more modual way, and that the data can be taken out of the chip in 2 or 4 channels, so it is easier to take the same chip, put in a buffer (like the sinar emotion line) put in FW800 (like imacon) and utilize the faster extreme IV cards and come out with a new fast line of backs...
the entire industry sells maybe 500-1000? backs a year in the world...their margins are still very small and they constantly have to come up with something new to upstage their competition...all the time with canon breathing down their neck...and selling 10.000s
the canon has to deal with a fraction of the data, which is why it can be so much faster and which is why the files do not hold up to the comparison...and they are not really worried about the MF market...
the new MF backs are MF by design only....the P45, A75, E75...are really instant 4x5 scans...the idea that somebody NEEDS to shoot this quality 1frame/sec is actually funny, because it would not be possible with film....
20mpix 16bit full frame(almost) is better then MF film...the canons (also the existing 1DsmkII) is almost as good and shoots whoknowshowmany frames/sec....which MF camera can do that and what do you need it for? i am asking because i don't really remember seeing too many hasselbladV on the sidelines in the old days...
if canon would come out with a 3:4 chip they would pretty much kill MF off completely...eventually they will figure out how to make their chips 16bit and handle that data with the speed they need...
but i guess by then there would be backs producing 20f-stops range 50mpix files....but they would not be cheap either....and why should they?