Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, what's really tempting, if I have the money, is the Arca-Swiss "Factum." Basically, a small "techcam" that includes tilt and shift in the body so all lens are supported to tilt and shift, just like a mini-view camera. So in this Photokina, looks like Leica hits a home run on the M front, or at least sufficient to keep people interested and buying. Canon released ho hum, ditto Nikon. Well $2100 for a full frame dSLR is nice, but... MF DLR manufacturers (Hassy, Phase One and even Leica) pretty much retrenched and not innovating much. The writing could be on the wall that the D800/e are eating their lunches. All 3 Techcam companies introduce something compelling, but I guess it's relatively easy to do when the camera is just a finely machined frame :-) On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote: > Those Hasselblad things are a truly ugly joke. They make things like the > various Leica Special Editions look like the epitome of restraint, taste > and value. On the other hand, the Alpas are for real, and can do things no > other cameras can. > > See: http://www.alpa.ch/en/microsites/alpa_12_fps.html > > With this, you can put a Canon 17mm TS-E lens in front of an 80Mp MF > digital back and still have shift capability left over! No other camera, > and certainly no Hasselblad can touch that. > > If I was still doing a lot of well paying architectural jobs, I'd be all > over that item. > > Henning > > > On 2012-09-18, at 3:26 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > For only 5000 euros = 6518.0000 US dollars you can get in the next months > > announced for Photokina a 1.5x crop APS-C 24.3 megapixel Hasselblad > > mirrorless with little wood side grip pieces which enable you to spend > even > > more money like buying a modern Alpa only not super high quality - the > > opposite. > > I wonder if they'll have the see though Plexiglas grip? That would be > > groovy. > > Its called a Hasselblad Luna but its designed to be used on earth. > > Wood cameras on the moon? One must make ones imagination take a giant > leap. > > > > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>