Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aha, an opportunity for 2 OT posts at once. The last time I used my Mamiya 7 was on my Icelandic holiday the summer of 2005. It had been my hiking/landscape camera of choice for a long time. I took it and, my then fairly new, Canon EOS 1Ds mk2. I took a few pictures which were from the same viewpoint on the same tripod with both cameras, just for interest's sake. I had to scan the film when I got home, of course, but the scanned images from the Mamiya 7, mainly using the 43mm lens, were only a bit technically superior to the Canon shots using the less than stellar 16-35mm zoom. I was astonished. The M9, or Nikon D3x with the 14-24 zoom is much better than the Canon for landscapes. The Mamiya was still a good choice for hiking, if you haven't got a M8 or M9. For the slow B&W film Richard, I am sure it is still superior, as long as you have a rigid tripod. Frank On 27 Jan, 2010, at 04:08, Richard Man wrote: > You infidel :-) > > Let the firework begins!!! :-) > > Actually, the reason I use the Mamiya 7II for my B&W work is > because... well, 6x7 neg is about 4 times the size of a 35mm frame, > digital or not :-) > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:38 PM, slobodan Dimitrov > <s.dimitrov at charter.net> wrote: >> To tell you a plain truth, from my vantage point, my 1D MIII with a 50 >> f1.8, walks circles around most of the shots I've seen posted with the M8 >> or M9. >> S.d. >> > > > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: > http://rfman.wordpress.com > // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information