[Leica] The myths of crop factor

[Mark Rabiner]

Someone I think Hasselblad/Fuji is marketing a not super high priced new
CMOS back which works with classic Hassy 500c bodies or an ELM such as I
have. Its enough to make me try to get a job in the post office.


A CMOS back makes your Hassy not just a studio and tripod camera but a
digital version of the Hassy film camera like a 35mm DSLR Is to an SLR. In
other words you can use it on the street or indoors or at dusk hand held.
A medium format camera whose iso tops off at 200 would be a lot more
constricting and limiting than you'd think. There's also a limit on longer
exposures I think. Personally I'm ok with tripod use but it would be nice to
do with my Hassys what I used to do with them and and what I do now with
35mm format DSLR's. Almost.
I used a lot of 220 iso 800 film in my Hassy's. Color neg.


On 1/5/15 11:25 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> The newest Sony back is now available from Hasselblad for $13K-$15K. Still
> more than the Pentax 645Z which uses the same back of course, but much
> cheaper than what Phase One charges. Great way to get your Hasselblad
> systems to state of art 2015.
> 
> This also means that older backs like the P45 will be dropping to around
> $8000-$10000 mark.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> You lucky guy!
>> 
>> I thought my Hassy system as lucky for me as it would be the first in line
>> for any digital revolution which might come to pass. Did not occur to me
>> that those backs would cost more than any car I ever bought.
>> So that's not happened for me yet. But I still have my complete Hasselblad
>> system. A nice set of top quality Zeiss for Hasselblad glass. Including a
>> 10omm f3.5. Made specifically for the Hassy system by Zeiss.  Not Cosina
>> Zeiss. Zeiss Zeiss.
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/5/15 11:01 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> my Hasselblad is a DSLR
>>> 
>>> a note off the iPad, George
>>> 
>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> used to balk when people would say a DSLR replaced a Hasselblad.
>>>> Now I half agree with it.
>>> 
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