Or cropping in a lot ... which has been happening more than large usage for me.One reason I went MF clients are making things very large with little control on my end. So I look at it as a CYA system.
-Marc
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Or cropping in a lot ... which has been happening more than large usage for me.One reason I went MF clients are making things very large with little control on my end. So I look at it as a CYA system.
Valid point...Or cropping in a lot ... which has been happening more than large usage for me.
-Marc
I was thinking the exact same thing about Guy!Okay who are you and what did you do to Ken? :ROTFL:
100% very true, and i am sure after 5-10 years if i am still alive the latest gear will be shown off no doubt.Guy,
Did you hear about the new MFDB with 200 mpx resolution and 24 stop DR? Clean images up to ISO 24000 at 25000 it starts to get noisy but a firmware fix is on the way
It will image a black cat in a coal mine and get the filaments in the hanging bulbs.
My friend, true gear sluts will never really be satisfied. :salute: enjoy the glow
-Al
How soon can I get my hands on one? I heard that rumour as well, along with the expected RRP of USD5,000Guy,
Did you hear about the new MFDB with 200 mpx resolution and 24 stop DR? Clean images up to ISO 24000 at 25000 it starts to get noisy but a firmware fix is on the way
It will image a black cat in a coal mine and get the filaments in the hanging bulbs.
My friend, true gear sluts will never really be satisfied. :salute: enjoy the glow
-Al
Naughty, naughty, Graham! I hope everyone caught the dates of the posts. (May significant others never ever read the leading posts in this thread feigning contentment...)I was searching the forum and ended up on this thread again. I thought it worth resurrection with 2011 perspectives from all involved because if I'm not mistaken ALL of you have upgraded and/or now bought technical cameras & lenses.
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BTW: I deliberately leave myself out of this discussion because I KNOW I'm a hopeless gear slut with no pretensions of being anything else!
And now I also love my Arca RM3D!Okay, got my morning chores done and decided I'd add my comments for posterity. If I wrote everything I was thinking, it would be so long nobody would read it, so I'll give an extremely abbreviated version.
My P65+ generates more file than I really need for most of my imaging; I could have easily made do with the P40+ or even stayed with my P45+ and remained "satisfied" for quite a while. (No, I will not give a definite time-frame for the duration of that satisfaction!) But then it was the same when I shot 4x5 film and I still went on to 8x10 as well, so there you go. IMO there's always more satisfaction to be had from more image. And more justification.
We can niggle over the file traits of color and DR too -- as with everything else about the image, "more" here is usually better too. Better for what though? Our own satisfaction, our ability to justify the purchases, or some real measurable improvement to our images? I submit the former are more likely when we should be focusing on the latter...
Next we can wax poetic over lens traits. We love various characteristics such creamy Bokeh, smooth rendering, laser sharpness, roundness, or any of a dozen other terms that make us sound like wine snobs at a tasting convention. Heck, I've even heard "great plasticity" whatever the heck that means! Point is, we often use these traits to justify our purchases rather than a desire to put them to serious work for us.
My point is I think I have grown a little with age (finally). I now actually try and put the traits I tout to work for me to make better and better images. (Novel concept, I know, but admittedly not one I have always focused on myself...) The upside is I can actually see it working now, usually seeing results on multiple images from any given shoot, so get encouraged and continue pursue that track. And surprise, the more I pursue it, the more often it happens, and the more often I am satisfied with "what I already own" which is a good thing I think.
Of course then I sometimes get hit with an alternate reality --- like making a pretty nice image from a camera and lens that cost me half what a basic MF 80 prime would, all while using it on one of its in-camera jpeg setting . That's when I start to wonder how important the gear is relative to artistic vision...
One recent MF shot I spent some time working and one recent 4/3rds cam shot basically straight out of the camera. Not really similar so you can't compare them, but I like them both pretty equally and one was a lot easier to make:
But I love my P65+
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Not only can you continue, we may have to elevate you to "Enigma" status!I remember laughing at this thread a year ago, laughing all the more to read it now! :ROTFL:
Still shooting the same pair of 5D's since they were released some 7 years ago, two out of my three main lenses haven't changed in that time at all either. Am I allowed to continue on the forum? :ROTFL:
"Honey, where did you park my Camry?"Went out last night and my wife said bring the little camera. Hmmm honey sold that thing. Want me to bring the Cambo. LOL
Did not go over to well. LOL
Giggle."Honey, where did you park my Camry?"
Oh, just use the SUV.
"So where is it?"
Ah ...
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