I must be missing something here, Paul, but didn't you just form an opinion albeit negative by reading the same brochure? It certainly did not stop you from venturing an opinion seeing that you have not even handled it yet. So why take techtalk to task?
Just as you questioned how techtalk knew it to be 'good', how do you know that it is 'bad'? How can anybody venture an opinion on something that he has not handled?
Remember: Rational, Balanced, FACTUAL. If you cannot be all that, may I humbly suggest it is best not to venture anything.
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i am not venting about how good or bad the H3DII is, i am venting about hasselblad's marketing.....
someone here compared this to apple/ipod marketing....which really shows what's wrong with it....this is a 30000$, highly specialized tool, which has to turn to ipod style mass marketing tricks.....i find that very sad....
i have said it before....there is a lot of good in the H system, there is a lot of innovation...i don't need to have that coated in marketing hogwash to understand it...i prefer a different brand (for many reasons) and that most of the applaudable features are lost on me (because i do not need a corrected 28mm)......
the H3DII has shown up all over the web and it seems to be that very wealthy amateurs are the likeliest market for it....and for that crowd you need "ultra focus".....
as far as facts go: we have all been through this....the H3 is not full frame, the H3DII is not the first 3" DMFback, also not the first OLED..no matter what mr.techtalk says....
i would never say that the phase P30 is the best back out there....it might be the best FOR ME, but others look for different things....so if some company keeps calling their product the "best DSLR" it pisses me off.....
especially when (FACT) there is no way to prove that it is.....the FACT is that no test has in any way shown that any of the available backs have any serious advantages over a competitor.....different features, higher asa,...blablabla...but in the end it is a very personal choice....
i find it absolutely amazing that anytime i (or someone else) comes here to say anything negative about hasselblad, there is a whole army unleashed to defend....a COMPANY! for christ's sake this is nuts....
people go on and on about all kinds of products but forwhatever reason this seems like a mac vs PC issue......
i don't DEFEND mamiya if someone says that the RZ is heavy, old, outdated and a joke....it works for me....people write that the M645 is plastic and a toy....fine with me...phase sucks...but oh boy don't say anything against hasselblad.....because after years they came out with a SOFTWARE SOLUTION for mirror slap.....
i talked to a mamiya techguy...they are planning a software solution to make the RZ half the weight.....i can't wait....