[Leica] VictorBlad

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Very few people of any circumstance would agree with medium format digital
being wiped the floor with any 24x36 format camera system regardless of
"resolution".
It has just no basis in logic or practice or anything else. Experience.
Testing. Results. 

There is a reason why top pros for top jobs rent Hasselblad H's and V's.
They and their art directors and editors are not idiots who should be
listening to discerning advice from guys who buy and sell cameras systems
back and forth endlessly on eBay on camera gear chat lists.

Unless it was in the respect of somebody who felt starting from in the area
of film that Leica shooting wiped the floor of Hasselblad  use. That the
results were not worth the speed and spontaneity loss.
And then we are talking about spontaneity and speed issues not quality of
image issues. And rather narrow mindedly. Sure some 35mm shooters have
gotten by with never shooting medium format.
But For decades both commercial photographers as well as photojournists and
who ever else have known there are times the quality of image demands a
larger format than what they normally might use.

For some reason what comes to mind is Jim Marshall famous Leica rock and
roll and jazz shooter who showed us stuff taken with rented Blads.
Jean-Loup Sieff  you'd' think never parted with his Leica and 21 super
Angulon.
There's no difference with digital capture.
Acreage is pretty much always going to be the bottom line.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:21:29 +0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] VictorBlad
> 
> I've used one of these. Image quality is honestly nothing to write
> home about. The D3x wipes the floor with it in pretty much every way.