Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You'll want to check out this to feed my growing family: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=70628.0 Mark William Rabiner Photography > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:04:47 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hasselblad point and shoot thinks its an Alpa > > Actually, what's really tempting, if I have the money, is the Arca-Swiss > "Factum." Basically, a small "techcam" that includes tilt and shift in the > body so all lens are supported to tilt and shift, just like a mini-view > camera. > > So in this Photokina, looks like Leica hits a home run on the M front, or > at least sufficient to keep people interested and buying. > > Canon released ho hum, ditto Nikon. Well $2100 for a full frame dSLR is > nice, but... > > MF DLR manufacturers (Hassy, Phase One and even Leica) pretty much > retrenched and not innovating much. The writing could be on the wall that > the D800/e are eating their lunches. > > All 3 Techcam companies introduce something compelling, but I guess it's > relatively easy to do when the camera is just a finely machined frame :-) > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at > archiphoto.com>wrote: > >> Those Hasselblad things are a truly ugly joke. They make things like the >> various Leica Special Editions look like the epitome of restraint, taste >> and value. On the other hand, the Alpas are for real, and can do things no >> other cameras can. >> >> See: http://www.alpa.ch/en/microsites/alpa_12_fps.html >> >> With this, you can put a Canon 17mm TS-E lens in front of an 80Mp MF >> digital back and still have shift capability left over! No other camera, >> and certainly no Hasselblad can touch that. >> >> If I was still doing a lot of well paying architectural jobs, I'd be all >> over that item. >> >> Henning >> >> >> On 2012-09-18, at 3:26 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> For only 5000 euros = 6518.0000 US dollars you can get in the next months >>> announced for Photokina a 1.5x crop APS-C 24.3 megapixel Hasselblad >>> mirrorless with little wood side grip pieces which enable you to spend >> even >>> more money like buying a modern Alpa only not super high quality - the >>> opposite. >>> I wonder if they'll have the see though Plexiglas grip? That would be >>> groovy. >>> Its called a Hasselblad Luna but its designed to be used on earth. >>> Wood cameras on the moon? One must make ones imagination take a giant >> leap. >>> >>> >>> >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> Henning Wulff >> henningw at archiphoto.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information