Originally posted by TwoUptons 12 Mp? $106,000?
I do like the vignette correction, but I’m looking for anything that screams awesome, apart from the price...
The control that's offered by a
view camera with bellows, perhaps?
It's not all about the megapickles... in this case, as with any view camera, you get:
- The ability to skew the plane of critical focus
- The ability to distort the shape of the image by skewing the film / sensor plane
- Shallow depth of field - much shallower (if required)
- Smaller apertures can be used (if required) due to longer focal length lenses
- Access to some wonderful large format lenses
One of my favourite photographers is Stephen Shore. I marvel at his "one horse town" shots taken with large format cameras, that are in *perfect* focus throughout the entire depth of field. Very, very different to the hyper-focal approach we use on our DSLRs, and much more effective when used properly...
In any case, this is clearly an early model. If it takes off (and I realise that's a big "if"), we'll see higher resolution models further down the line.