jlm, I certainly think the CFV's are great camera backs. Outside of the money, my biggest issue with the 1.5 crop back that I used to own was with difficulty in getting a shallow depth of field with a standard lens. A standard 80mm lens of a 6x6 system at f2.8 gets you about the same depth of field as a standard lens on the A900 "square" at f1.4. However, when you use the crop CFV square, Hasselblad 50mm lenses become the standard lens, and they are only f4. So, in essence, the A900 in square mode with an f1.4 standard lens will get around 2 stops or so shallower dof than the CFV square with a 50mm f4 standard lens. Whether or not that's a big deal depends on your shooting style. Once a fullframe, square MFDB is available, using the 80mm 2.8 lens as a standard lens again will alleviate this issue for me.