Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't get the square format medium format cameras dead statement. None of those cameras went under. Hasselblad, Rolleiflex and a few others. 645 remained a bargain basement medium format for people who had to feel like they were shooting 35. Square format Hasselblads dominated wedding and event shooting till the end. On 6/22/16 9:17 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > Sometime in the long ago, some marketing guy thought the rather obscure 645 > size ( remember the A16 Hassy back?) was MF. At that time, there was 6x6 > and > 645. ( and 6x7; 6x9; and even 6x8). All the numbers referred to film size > in > mm. They all used a common 120 film size. Then someone thought that 6x6 was > a dead end and there were no more 6x6 cameras being made. They were all > 645....the other sizes went dead. So magically, 645 became the MF standard > (and only size). With the advent of digital, 645 became a ratio (4:3), not a > mm size, and so now we have digital MF sensors that measure 44x33mm There are > larger sensors.... But none measure 56x56 mm, the old time MF standard We can > only hope some sensor in the future will measure 56x56mm. My CF lenses will > cover the sensor, easily. Frank Sent from my iPad On Jun 22, 2016, at > 6:58 PM, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> > wrote: Neither for me I think, I don?t like operate on cameras in Menu mode > neither with EVF, on the other hand this one is not exactly a MF camera, > IMHO > it is equivalent to a smaller 4,5 x 6, the CMOS sensor is 43.8 ? 32.9mm, > for > me the true MF (at least in film) is 60 x 60 mm (2 1/4" x 2 > 1/4?). Lluis > El 22 juny 2016, a les 23:16, Frank Verizon 2 2016 > <red735i at verizon.net> va escriure: > > Appears to be a Leica SL on steroids, > at a discount store price. > Does 2 lenses sound familiar? > No zoom yet, no > H lens adapter yet. > Fully electronic lens to body connections mean that > CF,C, and F lenses will not work, unless they make a special adapter > available > > It is substantially lighter than my Leaf + 500CM system, a good > thing. > > I am unconvinced it is a path for me. > > Frank Filippone > > > <http://www.hasselblad.com/x1d> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/