Originally posted by ndevlin This is a fun 'over beers' discussions, which I do not mean to dampen, but the reality is this won't happen, really ever.
I'm inclined to agree, but in 15~35 years from now it might be a possibility. Assuming still photography as we know it still exists.
Originally posted by ndevlin Let's build a whole camera body from the ground up. Something Phase One has proven utterly incapable of doing....in mere 645.
Both of us know that is
basically a mamiya 645AFD in phase one drag. To be honest I
never liked mamiya medium format SLRs, there was always some little operational quirk that could total an entire shoot. A colleague of mine said: you always have to have a back up body(or better yet, two) when you worked with mamiya.
Leica did a good job of building the S2* , Hasselblad have been using the same basic chassis for their H and V series cameras over the past 50 years and it hasn't hurt them significantly. however, don't get me started on all the things that are wrong with the Hy6.
Originally posted by ndevlin But it IS fun to dream. For me, that looks more like a digital Mamiya 6
Out of curiosity, why the Mamiya 6** not the 7II? Apart from the lenses (which have a crippling issue with the electronics) I thought that camera was well built.
* To be completely honest I'm still a bit surprised that Leica made the S2 an SLR, ( the S1 was a 36mmX36mm format mirrorless, but that was a necessity as it used a scanning back as I recall) Leica should have made the S2 mirrorless and it possibly would have enjoyed a broader market appeal and have been more successful. To my hands the the S2 feels like an overgrown R, not that there is anything inherently wrong with that it just feels like territory Leica has crossed before.
** I presume you are referring to the newer Mamiya 6 and not the old Mamiya 6. For a moment there I was perplexed: why would anyone want that, though I can imagine hipster photographers would would just love it.
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Originally posted by bull drinkwater if pentax made a un-cropped 645 sensor, it would be the mother of medium format cameras.
The downside to that would be that most of the new D-FA 645 lenses would have to be re-designed to cover the larger sensor. That would tick a lot of people off.
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