How did you do with the 45mm T/S? I have heard it was too soft for serious work.
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I guess serious covers a lot of territory.
The Harteblei lenses are not pin point oh my god, Zeiss, Leica sharp but last time I looked in my official world photographe'rs handbook, I don't think that is always a necessary requirement.
If you shoot techical work, or landscape you probably won't like it, but for shooting faces, people, especailly with a classic view camera look it's beautiful.
In fact if my camera kits had not grown past the size of a grip truck I would buy every Kiev lens made with adapters for my Contax and use them for certain styles.
Not to really get off topic, but if you read these and other technically oriented forums you find that all people talk about is sharpness, detail and pixels and just because you can blow an image up to 200 % and stick your nose on the screen doesn't mean it makes the photo better or for that matter makes it anything other than detailed.
It's not that I don't like detail, or even work sometimes oversharpened for effect, but I can promise you I have few clients that look at the detail of a photo the way people on these and other forums do.
We have a series of work, shot a few years ago with an 8mpx Canon 1d-2 that has received a lot of acclaim and play through large books and posters and nobody I know of has walked over to a print and said, "where's the extra eyelash detail".
In fact this series was shot with a dcs 760 at 6mpx and I can promise you for a lot of projects I could still use that camera today and nobody would complain.
We all get caught up in this mostly because we all keep telling ourselves to get caught up in it. 11 to 18, to 21 to 31 to 39 mpx (probably going to 60) and we're told you just gotta have it, but trust me, you don't just gotta have it, no matter what you shoot.
You may want it, you may even appreciate it, but you don't just gotta have it.
What a lot of photograhers gotta have, or better yet . . . want, is cameras and lenses that let you get to a unique vision, or that don't keep you from doing what you want to do, that offer options in lenses and speed, software and file compatibiltiy that allows you to process and deliver to deadline, even if your deadline is self imposed.
Everybody's different and my way works for me, (actually I don't really have one signular way I work), but even if I did, I'm aware that what I do won't work for everyone, but then again, I am also very, very aware what clients and even the genreal public looks at and rarely does anybody look at the megapixel count of an oversharpened pixel and get moved by the image.
Maybe that's why I'm pretty much non concerned about the H series being limited on a hasselblad only digital back. From the moment I touched that camera I realized it only took one type of glass (well I know there is a CF adapter) but basically unless it's a leaf shutter lense your limited, so the idea of a tilt shift, or some old pentax 6x7 lens is just not going to work and if you can keep your nose off the monitor and counting pixels, you'll really see some beauty in some of those old lenses.
I think Phase and the Mamiya have a great opportunity if they keep pushing the open format and not on the back end, but the front end. Kiev, Pentax, Harteblei, Mamiya, Zeiss, and almost anything with an F stop ring should work on that camera.
If I was Phase I would show that camera on the front of the website with 5 different makes of lenses on it, but I guess if they did that somebody would post that they are making excuses for not have more Mamiya lenses. It's a shame a positive becomes such a negative so quick on the internet.
I think it's almost funny how we look at this stuff today. Prior to digital it was the camera, lenses then the film/processing, usually in that order, but now it seems to be the tail is wagging the dog.
New isn't always better but a combination of old and new can be pretty cool.
JR
