Just trying to put myself in their shoes. the shoes of the Back makers that is.
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I don't know what medium format shoes are like because they just don't get their message out, or even worse they just don't want to tell their message, the good and the bad.
Hopefully more good than bad, but at least give us some wink or nod that your listening.
They all need a video where the CEO of each company answers straight talk.
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MR: So CEO, why is 800 iso smeared or yucky?
CEO: Because Dalsa and Kodak are cheap and won't make new sensors that's not already sitting on the shelf. They will cut some different sizes, I think the last one they suggested was a oval, because there is more yield to cutting ovals.
MR: So CEO, what is the answer?
CEO: After my kids soccer practice I took the Jersey Turnpike over to Sony and they are making a new sensor now, for 1/2 price and it will be out in 12 days. Goes iso 2 to 2,000.
MR: How bout that lcd?
CEO: Yea, no problem man, I went down last night and bought 600 ipod touches on my mastercard and my guys are ripping those screens out now. We should have them glued on the back of the camera in a week, just about the time the UPS guy shows up with the sensors.
MR: Good job.
CEO: Thank You.
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I know the people at Leaf and Phase and through this Forum Sinar Theirry and they're all nice people busting tail to give us specialty equipment. I appreciate that more than I can write, but then again, I got work to do, so instead of me tossing another 8 grand over to Cophenhagan, Tokyo got it this time.
Today I bought the 1ds3. It took 6 minutes. Honestly, 6 minutes from when I drove up to the store and drove off. Let me repeat that . . . 6 minutes.
I came back, unwrapped it all like new, in case I freaked out and wanted to take it back and all I can say is it's great and makes me somewhat unhappy.
The great part is Canon has addressed about every complaint from the 1ds2. I mean everything is well thought out and everything just works.
The learning curve is about 15 minutes and about another 4 miutes to set all your custom stuff.
Every Canon lens I own fits, the little 4x5 black focuing screen fits, it's all just rock solid and almost frightening how well built.
You can manual focus and it may not pop like a RZ, but you can focus and be very accurate.
The sad part is all I want from my digital backs is 800 clean iso. I keep saying, have said it for years, but obviously medium format can't do it, or doesn't seem to think it's that important.
And remember 800 iso on even a 645 camera with the slight bellows factor (and the fact that the term iso seems to be a moveable item,) is equal to about 600 iso on a Canon, if even that. In other words F3.5 at 1/125 on a Canon is a lot brighter than 3.5 at 1/125 on the backs.
Damn.
I love those Contax cameras, I love shooting them, I know them so well I could shoot them during an acid flashback and not miss a beat.
Forget the lcd, cause at this point I don't see that changing that much either, but I can't in all of my justification for not blowing any more money on digital stuff, look at an 800 iso file from the backs and compare it to the Canon and not see a big difference.
Maybe it's just the two sensor makers. Maybe they just have the back companies by the nads, but for some reason nobody is producing a sensor that is that clean at high iso.
Now maybe the new backs will pixel bin or something like that and give us 800 iso clean. That's great, but for an extra 20 grand more?
Damn.
JR
P.S. Most of us are called to photograhy. It isn't just a job, or something to appease a work release program. Likewise we are drawn to cameras, real cameras, that look, feel, smell and work like professional instruments so if anybody reads the above and thinks I want an all 35mm dslr world, then I somehow miscommunicated.
