[Leica] VictorBlad

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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.

On May 28, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Medium format
> A reality for digital shooters finally?
>
> Yes why not is what I say!
> Not not quite as easy as a medium format option for film;
> But getting to be in the realm of reasonable ness:
> This just out:
> Having checked out these deals Hassy just emailed me about pre owned
> cameras.
>  one of then was called this:
> http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/v-system/503cwd.aspx
>
> A 503CWD
>
> " The camera Victor would have built"
>
> Well it is the camera Victor did build.
> But with a digital back on the back.
>
> For some reasons they didn't say
> " The digital camera Victor would have built"
> Which is not good either:
> "The way Victor would have shot digital"
> Is good copy.
>
> The Fujiblads have taken the spot as most used cameras for high end  
> jobs;
> The New Leica S system will no doubt eat into that;
> Most often used as the H system is used (the Fujiblads we like to  
> call them)
> As rentals
> But people with money are always coming out of the woodwork
> Rolls Royce sold twice as many cars this year than last.
> Its always what you don't think.
>
> Some interesting tidbits on the specs:
>
> Square format just like Victor reckoned.
> And I'm real fond of. Also with my Rolleiflex.
>
> Could I wrap my mind around a 1.5 crop circle way of shooting?
> I think so ever since getting my D100 in 2003 its all I've mainly ever
> thunk.
> With some brief Leica M and LTM interludes getting fewer and further
> between..
>
> 36.7 x 36.7 mm
> Hey that's longer than 35mm!
> By a cool clean .7 mm away!
>
> But by both sides now:
>
> 36.7 * 36.7 = 1346.89
> 24 * 36 = 864
> 1346.89 / 864 = 1.56
>
>
> I love this:
> " Sensor size: 16 Mpixels (4080 x 4080 pixels)"
>
> I'll let this get by with poor translation but the size of the  
> sensor it not
> 16 Mpixels. That's the capacity of the sensor.
> The size of the sensor is  36.7 x 36.7 mm
> That's the whole point of the camera.
> A credit card camera can have 16 Mpixels on your pinky fingernail  
> pixies
> dancing.. Ok maybe in a year.
>
> I have a 50mm lens so 50 * 1.5 = 75
> Gee that's normal for medium format square!!
> I guess its good by wide angle.
> Except for that fact that in this day and age a Zeiss lens made for
> Hasselblad bought used is the best deal in photography period. Bar  
> none.
> Easy. I think you can get them with food stamps.
>
> I have a Carl Zeiss Planar T* 3.5/100 Cfi bought moments before the  
> whole
> digital thing hit.
> Glass to give our 75mm Summicron a run for its money.
> I put it on this camera and I get (hold it while I whip out my  
> slide rule:)
> 100 * 1.5 = 150mm!
>
> 150 was my first lens with my first Hasselblad except it said  
> "Sonnar"  on
> it for some odd reason probably used in submarines.! And the only  
> lens I had
> for years starting out in commercial in Portland in the early 80s.
>
>
> A medium format option.
> Never a bad thing.
> Leica even made a medium format enlarger.
> As so many photographer had a Rolleiflex in the bag right next to  
> their
> Leica.
> I'd put an old sock in between.
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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