Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 10/20/04 5:19 PM, "JCB" <jcb@visualimpressions.com> typed: > At 03:39 PM 10/20/2004, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > >> If Hasselblad with Imacon cant come out with an affordable digital back >> for >> it's existing system someone else shortly will. > > > The problem is that the technology is changing daily. The digital companies > can hardly keep up with it. Last week it was 16mp backs, now it's 22mp > backs. They are pouring just gobs of cash into R&D and are moving forward > as fast as possible. If they don't, they'll get overrun. This keeps the > price high since they are always marketing and selling the latest back and > the next back, and not really looking back. So until the technology hits a > wall, where they cannot get any more MPs and the sensor is full frame and > the sensor yield is good enough so that the wholesale price of the big > sensor is less than $10,000, then you might see a "reasonably" priced MF > digital back. > > Don't hold your breath... > > :-) > > JB > The back needs to have a bigger file size or at least the same as a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II which is 16ms and at last a format size the size of a superslide. People want to use their Hasselblads. They want to blow away their Canon loving competition. They need to stop trying to out premium each other with their backs as you're saying but out budget back each other. Come out with a back which costs the same as a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II body with a few more pixels this and that. Ain't rocket science. It's pixel progress. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/