Will 60Mp earn you more money - or do you just want one? That's the question.
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Well, we all invest in our business, usually without a client specifically asking. I've never had a client ask if I had a nicer studio or more luxurious coffee bar, but I have to assume they notice investment and it's appreciated.
Will they notice 60mpx? I don't know.
As far as this camera goes, there is a lot we've been asking for a long time that now seems to be coming. Adjustable iso, faster shooting and a real 645 without a cardboard mask.
For me I kind of wish it didn't come with 60mpx just to get the iso and the frame size, but I guess that's progress.
I would like to know more, such as the lcd, in camera previews, in camera processing, or even in camera color, tone, wb, settings, but since I don't think this is mentioned, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Same with how the variable file size works. Does 1600 iso give you 30mpx, but no moire, or less moire, or more moire?
Is the ISO really true, or is it just a number, because from all the cameras I use I can assure you all ISO is not created equal.
Since I assume this sensor has no microlenses, will it actually have the same sensitivity as the microlense sensors on the P30+ and the P21+?
I do know that the lcd preview of that headshot on Michael's article, doesn't look like the lcd preview I now see on any medium format back (well excepty for the blown out area around the hair).
Actually, I would like to see this moveable iso or pixel binnning or whatever it's called get retro fitted to the other phase backs. I know they had it at one time and it wasn't mentioned much, but I assume it's a firmware/software change more than just a hardware difference.
I wouldn't mind 15.5mpx on my p30+ if it meant a true clean 800 ISO speed.
The most interesting thing about this, from the timing on how it was announced to how the annoucement is not yet complete and detailed, medium format companies seen to spend a lot of time thinking about and reacting to each other.
I would think Canon would be Phase's target, much more than hasselblad, because if Michael's numbers are correct and medium format only sells 6,000 backs a year vs. Canon's 6,000 cameras a day, I know the market I'd target and during the time Dalsa is making these new chips, I'd be over a B+H buying box loads of Fuji point and shoots to rip the lcd's off of them.
Let's be realistic. Medium format in the film days didn't die, or wasn't replaced by 35mm. Medium format was knocked down in the transition to digital because there wasn't anything that mounted on those medium format cameras that came anywhere close to Canons in ease and price.
I know a lot of photographers that shelved thier RZ's, V's, Contax's, Bronica, (even their new H-1's) and bought a few Canons.
If I made or sold cameras I would think of how I could reclaim some of that lost market.
Regardless, this is the PR stage of camera annoucements and though Phase has a good record of putting it on the shelf working and stable, there is a lot of questions to be answered before any money really changes hands.
I must admit my Contaxs would really benefit from a full frame viewfinder and if the iso thing is true and really clean high iso, that could keep the Canons in the bag.
Then again if the adjustable iso thing only gives you up to a clean 800 (real not numbers), then it depends on how much the upgrade costs is.
JR
