Instead of rehashing the same old complaints about the incompetence of manufacturers that cause you endless frustration, you could be learning how to work through your anger and frustration by using Photoshop. Really. Here's a link to illustrate... You Suck at Photoshop_lesson_1
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Everytime new product is introduced and the resulting response is not overwhelming positive, somebody always posts something like this, with a semi veiled comment mentioning frustration, ange, or complaint.
Actually what I read here is nothing even close to that. In fact if you read between the lines you will see a tight focus group giving opinions that most companies pay many thousands for.
I know some of the people here personally and they are busy photographers that own or have owned all forms of medium format backs. In the world of sales they would be classified as the target market.
Now once everythng is said and done, the new cameras are on the street, the results (if positive) I will bet that some of us mightl actually purchase one or more of these products, if it works as advertised and our needs are met.
In fact, that's the goal of all of this discusssion to work out what we need vs. what is possible.
Regardless I really don't see negative thought hear, I just see an honest opinion of what a lot of us would like to have in a camera.
Maybe in the world of camera making or brand loyalty that's not considered acceptable, but whether it is or isn't don't dismiss the op's analogy of medium format tethered and the cart of rocks, because on location the rocks would be eaiser to move around than a tech station and I doubt if the "rock assistant" would be two or three times the price of a photo assistant.
JR
P.S. Let's don't turn off the lights of this subject, just because at this point we agree to disagree.
I know some of the Phase people are they are enormously hard working and dedicated.
I am positive they want this to succeed and though some decisions I don't quite understand, I am sure they have every intention of giving us more today than we had yesterday.
I think it's important to understand that there is an different anticipation between the makers of a product than the end users. As makers they are trying to offer what they think will motivate us to buy, weighing every decision based on available technology, costs and time to market.
As users we have somewhat the same goals but must know the complete costs and useability vs. the actual real world benifits. Those costs don't stop at the back or the camera, but continue to storage, computer updates and most importantly time to preview, adjust, process and deliver.
We also must be 100% aware of what 'our" clients expect from us and not to beat a dead horse, few clients expect 300mb files though ALL clients do expect for us to capture some type of unique image and be sure that at the end of the day that goal is accomplished.
I think what this thread illustrates, especially in photograpy for commerce is the real world use vs. the lab world design are sometimes at odds.
The lcd really is at the heart of this. Meters, histograms and dynamic range can make for a more iintelligent process of getting the shot right (right comes in a lot of variations).
Regardless, nothing stirs, informs and pleasures a visual artist more than to see an exact represtantion of what will eventually get through post to print.
Nothing frustrates a visual artist more than using a preview system that is unwieldy and inhibits us from producing that unique image.