MedShooter
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Hi everybody, I've been lurking in the forum here for a few weeks doing research. I'd really like to get some ideas and help from the professionals here.
Ok, so I'm not a professional photographer but a business owner, specifically I design high end jewelry. I've tried a couple of 35mm DSLRs like the 40D and the quality really looks sub par. I mean even after professional color correction and everything, there is still the missing graduations of the metal, the dynamic range, the diamonds for example just looks white with some black inside. This is all shot using professional lighting, in a light tent. Also with a nice Canon macro lens.
I have a photographer though who charges per shot, who uses a Mamiya 645AFD and older Leaf back. His pictures are like night and day better than ours. I've even considered buying a 5d MkII but I still don't think it's going to give us the quality of a medium format camera.
I'm trying to see if it would be cost effective for us to buy a medium format camera for "studio shooting" in our offices. I've done quite a bit of research and see that the Phase One and Hasselblad H4d-40 and its respective competitor with Phase One or Leaf are the ones to get for this type of work. They're a bit too much for us to spend. I've also been researching the Pentax 645D which seems like a really interesting piece of hardware. I don't think it has tethering though, so would a person just go back and forth with the CF card to the computer? Would there be a better solution than that? Also are there refurbished Phase One hardware that one could look at or something? The magic number is about 9K for us. Mostly the work is going to be macro photography and we'd need a nice macro lens to use. I know that Depth of Field becomes a little bit of a problem in MF but DOF is very important to us as well….
Thanks
Ok, so I'm not a professional photographer but a business owner, specifically I design high end jewelry. I've tried a couple of 35mm DSLRs like the 40D and the quality really looks sub par. I mean even after professional color correction and everything, there is still the missing graduations of the metal, the dynamic range, the diamonds for example just looks white with some black inside. This is all shot using professional lighting, in a light tent. Also with a nice Canon macro lens.
I have a photographer though who charges per shot, who uses a Mamiya 645AFD and older Leaf back. His pictures are like night and day better than ours. I've even considered buying a 5d MkII but I still don't think it's going to give us the quality of a medium format camera.
I'm trying to see if it would be cost effective for us to buy a medium format camera for "studio shooting" in our offices. I've done quite a bit of research and see that the Phase One and Hasselblad H4d-40 and its respective competitor with Phase One or Leaf are the ones to get for this type of work. They're a bit too much for us to spend. I've also been researching the Pentax 645D which seems like a really interesting piece of hardware. I don't think it has tethering though, so would a person just go back and forth with the CF card to the computer? Would there be a better solution than that? Also are there refurbished Phase One hardware that one could look at or something? The magic number is about 9K for us. Mostly the work is going to be macro photography and we'd need a nice macro lens to use. I know that Depth of Field becomes a little bit of a problem in MF but DOF is very important to us as well….
Thanks