I see where you are coming from Theodoros. The trouble is, I am not sure you will find many people here terribly interested in having that discussion. This is purely a personal impression, but the sense I have is that people here know what value they get from using their MFDBs, feel that the images thus produced speak for themselves, and that speculating in such a way just doesn't add a great deal to their priorities. Please take this in the spirit in which it is intended - i.e. sharing a view on why you may not get the debate you are seeking...
Best wishes,
Ed
The thing is Ed, that most disasters in history (IMO, if MF dies it will be a disaster to photography as an art), happens when a media loses its traditional values, what happens here currently, is that makers (in a straggle to survive) take the wrong information on customer needs and are attacking the media's own values which is the same as committing suicide... I wish that people come back to their senses and start demanding MF modularity back... It would force Hass and P1 to sit around a table and work on MF user's needs rather than trying to serve customers that seek only sharper DSLRs... I own an 11 lens (4 via adarters) Contax 645 system and a (Contax back fit) Fuji GX680 5 lens system, on which I share my Imacon 528c back... The whole system costed me about half of what one spends for a modern high resolution back with its dedicated camera an standard lens... :toocool: ....and it can do 10 times better what it does, while at the same time it does 99% as well of what they do! ...All that due to its modularity and special functions! :clap: I don't consider Pentax 645 or Leica S as being MF... IMO, a larger image area isn't enough to make something MF! ....MF is all about serving its traditional values, ...if this will vanish, MF will vanish with it! I agree with you that there are many that never thought (or are incapable) of a proper discussion... (at least not in forums anyway), but forums is where MF makers look for much of their marketing info and as such, it's worth trying...
let's hope then that you prove wrong and that this discussion will go on for months having people suggesting HDMI outputs for large screen quality LV previews and huge data storage, bringing modularity back and thus allowing S/H market to grow back (look at the prices of all those Bronicas, RBs, RZs, C645 etc...), the makers have to understand that by not supporting a basic
very cheap market that could provide a wide spread base for the media, they kill the higher market up... Do you know that most of the MFDBs they take as part exchange they
destroy...? :banghead: We better start suggesting and discussing then, ...otherwise we also take our own eyes off....:talk028: