Dear csp,
as a "hard-working employee" of a sales dpt. of one of the MF manufacturers your comments are also somehow "aimed" at me, and I feel it necessary to answer and defend Yair and myself.
I doubt there is any "marketing" speaking here, but rather the experience of many years (I guess Yair is in the field since a few as well) encounters with and feedback from real professionals all over the world, and in my case the previous experience of being myself a professional photographer. These encounters and speaking with those photographers have given us some inside-view of what professionals think and why they choose one system or another or why this gear fits their needs better than another. In any case, be sure of that, we meet also professionals who owe 35 dslr cameras, so we are getting the feedback from this side as well.
I have been one of the first to say, at the beginning of this particular tread, that the comparison done was unfair and that it was possible to get a much better quality out of the 35 dslr in question. This being said, I am also well aware of the real advantages and where lies the "superiority" of a high-end back like a MFDB, when it is in the hands of somebody able to use it, and they are many (able to use it).
I wish to make clear that my words do not imply or suggest that YOU are not able to use such a gear (nor Ray). But again, this is our experiences and our encounters with professionals all over the world, our own experiences with "our" gear/products in many hours of handling and tests.
We are not just here to give you marketing talks and/or to sell our products, nor to make the MF world looking (only) bright. If my role as an employee would be to BS day after day and sell a product which I was not convinced to be a good product giving high quality results, then I would certainly be working at another place. I think some honesty and true words can also be found in the mouth of sales or marketing employees who have the passion of photography.
Best regards,
Thierry
yair, ... you are a hard working employee in a marketing department so it is kind of strange that you want to tell me what can be done with a camera in a studio or not. believe me i´m aware of the limitations of both systems so please don't paint the mf world to bright . this board is the proof for what does not work and there is much to read. b beside this point i don't know what could not be done in studio with a ds !
why you focus so much on architecture photography is also beyond my understanding given that the market is rather small and it is nothing what could not be done by any talented professional with the right equipment.
at the end i see we should spend more and more money on equipment which does not have any visible impact on the quality of our printed work but is in the interest of the industry. this is in fact what i would call a twisted view of reality.
digital means photography for the rich only. what sad world
c
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