How unfortunate then that the IQ250 is so close to the D800 that people have been reporting good results by using the IQ250 profiles for their D800 images in C1. Or maybe how unfortunate that you never figured out how to profile your camera, think of all the money you might have saved?
I am the first person on this forum who reported that the D800 colors get better with the IQ 250 profiles. So dont enlighten me on this topic. It gets better, but nowhere as good as MF.
if you can do better, save us the speech and show us.
And where do you get your certainty? You have been told who Phase is targeting?
Edmund
I own and use a current Gen MF kit. You had a cup of tea with a very old kit. You don't even use MF gear now, nor are you in the market for one.
I also own and use the almighty D800. You don't.
That makes me a better authority on this topic than you.
I agree. It is well known to all Mamiya users that the Hasselblad 100/2.2 is a mediocre performer with hard sharpness, while the Contax Zeiss 80/2 is unusable wide open and suffers from particularly bad bokeh. I have to remember to throw away my horrible Hassy 110/2, no one will ever buy it for more than $10 if I ebay it. Definition - that is what I need in my next lens buy - luckily Apple is bringing out an interchangeable lens iPhone!
Maybe the 5 minutes you spent with the Mamiya system wasn't enough for you to realize that the fastest lens in the MF realm, an f/1.9, is a Mamiya.
I have had f/1.2 and f/1.4 lenses for my 35mm kits at various times and I can't think of too many serious shots I made with them wide open. I am sure there are fans of the "One eye in focus, everything else blurred" look and if that's what one shoots all the time -e.g. Every Steve Huff picture ever, 35mm (Or smaller) is the best bet. No one has ever contested that, AFAIK.
On the other hand, you can get the more or less the same "look" with MF with a longer lens without f/1.4 and without all the aberrations such fast lenses on 35mm format brings with them while wide open. So yeah, to me, such fast apertures are more about bragging rights than any serious usage.