bradhusick
Active member
Charles,
I tend to agree. My grandfather and dad always shot with a Rolleiflex. I have a 35mm film scanner (Nikon 5000 ED) and the results I get from that are amazing. I have two Leica film bodies and a Nikon F3HP that I regularly use in addition to digital.
I just think that in medium format, there are too many compromises today to make a street shooter happy, even if you ignore price. Either this market is too small for manufacturers to address, or MF is really unnecessary when street shooting. After all, look at most famous street photos and you could print them with a 4 MP camera. In that case, my M8 is 2.5X more powerful than it needs to be.
-Brad
I tend to agree. My grandfather and dad always shot with a Rolleiflex. I have a 35mm film scanner (Nikon 5000 ED) and the results I get from that are amazing. I have two Leica film bodies and a Nikon F3HP that I regularly use in addition to digital.
I just think that in medium format, there are too many compromises today to make a street shooter happy, even if you ignore price. Either this market is too small for manufacturers to address, or MF is really unnecessary when street shooting. After all, look at most famous street photos and you could print them with a 4 MP camera. In that case, my M8 is 2.5X more powerful than it needs to be.
-Brad