dougpeterson
Workshop Member
Yeah it does sound like that. I wish you and I knew each other better so you could understand my simultaneous excitement about this camera and trepidation about expectations being so high before any real world usage is out there. I've seen friends and customers hurt by their unfulfilled expectations of (fill in the blank here: ZD, mamiya 45-90, hy6, wireless tethering for phase, h3d-60 available April 2009, etc etc).To be completely honest Doug, it sounds like you are trying to run damage control more than anything else. It also seems like this camera is filling a bit of a niche that other medium format makers did not want filled.
Even this specific camera has been announced in various incarnations for several years.
This could not only be good; it could be great. I just want to see it before I believe it because I've lived through some very exciting announcements that went nowhere fast.
Absolutely right. Like I said the weather sealing is one of the most exciting parts of the announcement (along with the price). I would still want to see the equivalent of the Antartica hell-test (assuming that was a feature I was interested in) before I placed too much weight on it. But for sure it's a very exciting part of the announcement.The weather-proofing doesn't have to be monsoon-grade to have value - all it needs to do is give the targeted buyer peace of mind that the camera will hold up decently well and not be very finicky in the intended use. I don't take my EOS-1v's out in a heavy rain either without wrapping them in something, regardless of what lens is mounted. But I'm confident that they won't die just from getting a few drops on them.
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