[Leica] Phase One XF medium format camera system

[Mark Rabiner]

Oh boy a Pentax!! Will I be able to get Super Takumar lenses? NO!
I know I just checked the Ricoh site.
A camera body is all about giving an impressive line of glass a home .
These babies are dog ugly...: not going to spend five grand for them.
http://www.us.ricoh-imaging.com/645z/lens.html






On 6/3/15 12:39 AM, "Bob Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark,
$8,000 for a MF SLR PLUS a MFDB of 50MP PLUS a MF 55/f2.8 about the same
> cost as a M240 or new M246 or Nocti 0.95 all alone. 

It's a freaking steal
> anyway you slice it! The Canon EOS1-D C is $8,000 18MP AND NO LENS!

Yes it's
> expensive, but compared to others in the market, it's a give away!

What are
> you waiting for? A Pentax complete MF camera and lens system for the same
> price as a Canon body... Keep us posted... :-)



Bob Adler
Robert Adler
> Photography
www.robertadlerphotography.com

> On Jun 2, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Mark
> Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> There's the aspect perhaps that
> once you're getting into thousands of
> dollars not just hundreds you're
> talking about financing. And its a thing
> you arrange with a banker and a
> payment is a payment. Its a slight bigger
> monthly chunk of money you're
> paying off to get Schneider glass or Leica
> glass. Or Pentax glass which is
> marvelously above average.
> So when it comes to having to finance something
> I'd go for the gusto. I'd
> not skimp on glass. And who knows what  Pentax
> sensor is like vs. a Leica or
> a PhaseOne.? No clue.
> 
> 
>> On 6/2/15 9:13
> PM, "Bob Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Our local store is having a
> Pentax 645Z sale where if you buy the body (a50MP
>> back is an integral
> component), you get a free 55mm f/2,8 lens.
> 
> For
>> $8k...
> 
> Phase is
> going to have a tough time with prosumers and dilettantes
>> like
> me...
> 
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Mark Rabiner
>> <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> A new standard in photography is being hyped
>> with this new
> major upgrade to
>> the whole medium format PhaseOne system the
>> whole thing
> seemingly totally
>> re
>> designed and the top ended of three
>> cameras
> having a CMOS but the lower two
>> sticking with a more traditional for
>>
> medium format CCD.
>> XF IQ3 80MP - $48,990 / €38,990 CMOS
>> XF IQ3 60MP -
>>
> $41,990 / €33,990 CCD
>> XF IQ3 50MP - $40,990 / €31,990 CCD
>> 
>> Is the top
> end
>> one the lower ones not that much cheaper.
>> 
>> What really caught me
> is the way
>> the Schneider-Kreuznach leaf shutter
>> lenses
>> are being
> described or
>> hyped.
>> They are rated at  100MP. Not line pairs but MP's
> which are
>> megapixels. So
>> glass now is now rated now by its real
> resolution (line
>> pairs), contrast or
>> MTF charts but on what size digital
> file they can
>> support.
>> The upshot one may assume you know when you spend
> tens of thousands
>> on a
>> new
>> lens you wont be buying a camera
> afterwards which resolves higher
>> than your
>> lens thus putting a damper on
> the buying of the camera for a big
>> part.
>> To me this is a milestone but
> I'm ready for someone here to tell me
>> its
>> been
>> going on for years.
> This is the first I've noticed.
>> 
>> I do
>> think I've been using for most
> of my digital experience over the past
>> dozen
>> years glass that resolved
> higher than my camera bodies. And lived.
>> But I've
>> not been in a medium
> format mindset. Or do set. But instead I've
>> been going
>> through the
> burgeoning beginnings of fairly serious digital
>> photography. Not
>> the pie
> in the shy over the top end.
>> 
>> Lenses Ready for 100MP
>> 
>> --
>>
> Mark
>> William Rabiner
>> Photographer
>> 
>>
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>> 
>> 
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