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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-14-2019, 05:15 AM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-12-2019, 07:18 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-12-2019, 10:57 AM
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epic!!!
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I FINALLY got outside with my 645Z after a pretty long dry spell since March when Ed Hurst was in San Francisco.
This morning we got a decent burn in the California Delta:
 Orwood Bridge
645Z & A120/4
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-12-2019, 05:19 AM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-27-2019, 01:39 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-24-2019, 11:34 AM
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I’m much more interested in their commitment to servicing cameras into the future than in their commitment to make new ones that I can’t afford or won’t buy.
My, how we let sensors make our decisions for us. We demand the cutting edge sensor, then we demand lenses that can perform up to the level of the sensor. Yet in practice, lack of depth of field and camera shake (IBIS or not) will undermine the marginal improvements in both. Don’t misunderstand—results even with those issues can be excellent, but they undermine the value of paying double for double the resolution. And then there’s the computer storage problem. We have a sensor and lenses that can make superb prints FAR bigger than 99.9% of any of us will make, yet here we complain that Pentax isn’t sufficiently feeding our gear acquisition frenzy.
The features that made the 645z the best camera in the market five years ago haven’t gone poof! and left us with substandard work. We complain about Ricoh’s commitment, but what of our commitment to doing quality work with the tools available?
I do not see photography these days that justifies all the kvetching about stuff not being good enough. Except from large format, that is. Instead of a $10K camera with a sensor with 3-micron pixels and lenses that have to cost five large to exploit them, why aren’t we pushing for a 4x5” sensor solution for a Graflok mount? Are we committed to quality or not? Do we want to demonstrate our professional skills or not?
Ricoh should have come out with a 645zII that made incremental improvements two years ago. Better shutter handling with Live View, a faster processor with better video capability—stuff like that. Maybe that would have been sufficiently symbolic to hold the frenzy at bay.
Rick “not really kidding about the need for a 4x5” sensor” Denney
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