I'd love to see this on a H2 with 100 f2.2 or with the Mamiya 80 f1.9 and used for some milky way landscape images
Exactly!
I started working in low-light, low-noise digital imaging in 1992.
That same year, I started shooting medium format, with an M645 1000s and an 80/1.9. Astrophotography being my main passion.
I have waited TWENTY TWO YEARS for these technologies to finally come together!!
Today could well be that day. :thumbup:
Ah...I wish I could be the one who takes that first IQ250, equatorially tracked, dark sky exposure or stack. I mean, I could
really put it through its paces...I have a superb equatorial mount and direct access to very dark skies; see below for the sort of thing I do with a 5DII, and want to do in MFD. But alas, my wallet is not as deep as many around here, so that honour will fall to someone else. Just share the result with us, please, whoever you are.
Which is not to say that I don't have reservations about this new product. Is the IQ250 perfect? No, nothing is. OK then - rephrase the question - is it as good as I was hoping and
reasonably expecting? No, it falls short there too. This is a Sony CMOS sensor which is a little larger in area than their 35mm FF sensors. It
should be operated in exactly the same manner as those sensors, just scaled up accordingly. But it isn't! There is no provision to opt out of the in-situ dark frame, which just
kills your productivity in the long exposure regime.
That is a
huge disappointment, and it was a completely unnecessary design decision on the part of Phase One. :facesmack: Could I remind readers that even the primitive DSLRs and DBs of 10-15 years ago had a menu setting, which allowed the user to toggle between darks always off / darks on above a certain exposure time / darks always on. It's as simple as that.
Ray