manouch shirzad
Workshop & Subscriber Member
Johnny,I think it does make sense, your IQ160 and a Alpa TC,wold make a great hiking camera. Gazwas makes note of the joy of the process, and for some, it really seems more contemplative, and thus a true art form. Landscapes images shot with these type of cameras, allow the viewer to "explore within" the photograph
Landscape photography should do just that.
It’s not the joy of the post process, it’s the necessity of the it, exactly like the time of the wet darkroom, when photographers had to spend a lot of time in the darkroom, sometimes even a few days, just to make one good print. I don’t have IQ 160 but I do have D800E on preorder, and I trust experienced photographers like Guy and Jack who have both systems and have done extensive test on them and believe them when they say”D800 is very good but still not there”.
When it comes to the price, if someone can afford to buy and use it , why not. In fact I believe in a very short time the MF manufactures will catch up and widen the gap again.
I agree with you that “Landscapes images shot with these type of cameras, allow the viewer to explore within the photograph “, but it is not the only way to do it.
It also can be done sometimes even better with smaller cameras and with the help of new technologies.
We know this fact that right out of the camera, the Tech camera files are superior to DSLR’s, and there is no argue about it, but Tech cameras have also their own limitations and are using the technology of hundred years ago, and that’s exactly their problem, these types of cameras are not fighting the smaller size cameras, they are fighting the digital technology, especially the new technologies of the last ten years.
Landscape and Architectural photographers who usually shoot static subjects are the ones who can take the most advantage of these new technologies.
To express myself better I’m posting a picture of Racetrack that I shot last February during the Death Valley Workshop. I made this test just to see what are my choices in this kind of situations.
The angle of view is about 140 degrees (diagonal) and 100 degrees in each direction,
50 degrees swing to the right and left, and 50 degrees tilt up and down, the closest distance to the camera is about 3 feet and the distance to the mountains is about 600 yard. This image is a stitch of 48 pictures and shot with M4/3 and kit lens, it took about 8 minutes to set up and shoot all 48 pictures and it took about 5 hours of post processing to finish the job.
As you notice there is no light falloff in the corners, no CA and no perspective deformations of the lens, and it is sharp corner to corner. I am sure D800 would have handled it much better, but to the best of my knowledge, there is no way to take such a picture in one shot with any type of camera.
Photographers did not have this type of luxury even 12 years ago, it’s a good time to be a photographer, and yes, Post Processing is the new wet darkroom and is here to stay with us.
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Manouch
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