Originally posted by normhead But I'm still hoping for an 8x10 camera with a digital back.
Sure, that would be a pretty sweet file...but if you think the MF backs are expensive...and then having the processing power to even save that file...I think we're a ways off, if ever.
I think the company is called Better Light, that make the 4x5 scan backs...but the exposures take a long time (over a minute I believe, so that seriously limits any landscape work with moving objects) and you also then need to bring a laptop into the field to save it. Maybe they'll make an 8x10 scan back someday --not sure if the 4x5 has been successful?? Really designed for studio work I believe, though.
Everything in photography is a compromise in one way or another and in my case I've bought into Pentax's motto for the 645D, "a happy medium."
It gives me the best compromise of IQ, portability and usability in the field, and speed. YES, I said it...it's FAST, at least compared to anything LF, if you put that into the calculation it starts to look pretty close in speed to a Canikon!