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Hi all
Just wondering is there anyone out there shooting with the latest series from hassleblad the HD series,it seems that aswell as re-mortgaging the house you would nearly want Nasa to run the file sizes, i have in the recent past submitted editorial work with files coming from the 5d and mark 2 from cannon and have got really positive feedback about the quality,so my point is-is there any point in investing all the time and money into a system of this magnitude. Now dont even get me started on archiving them ahhhhhhhhh….
Cheers big ears
Ben 8)Don’t know if it’s worth it or not, but when I saw one in the hands of Francis Hills http://www.figjamstudios.com/ I sure wanted one :!:
Herself uses a Phase One (http://www.phaseone.com) back on her Hassie, and has been for years, mainly for commercial work – not fashion though.
Was a big investment at the time but it’s more than paid it’s way since – initially only a few clients wanted/needed digital, but over time a lot more of them asked for it. She has it hooked up the a Mac lappy, capture is instant, transfer takes a second or two.Quality is superb – think the RAW files are in the 40Mb range – but yeah, storage is a killer (especially before DVDs became all the rage) and there’s a fair bit of time involved in just processing the RAW images, so you’ll have to allow for that too.
She makes 3 copies: one for the client (tiffs & jpegs), one for herself and one for backup…and one backup of RAW files.
Alls CDs DVDS are stored in large modular storage cabinets she bought from a crowd in Canada.If you want to chat to her about the advantages/disadvantages of the whole thing just drop me a line.
Hey Ben,
I havn’t used the new Hassy 39mp backs yet but use the phase one 22mp fairly regularily on a contax 645. 95% of the stuff we shoot, a 35mm DSLR does the business but if its a BIG job i will go for the medium format back. The backs are just in a whole other league. Its not just about the megapixels, medium format just gives everything that refined look. Photographers constantly try to argue that a canon 1DS is 16mp so a 22mp back is not much better, in practice its just not true.
But to answer your question ‘is it worth it’, in short NO. The hassy and back will set you back big bucks, most of your clients won’t appreciate the difference. When I need the extra wow factor, I beg, borrow or rent the backs.
If i was to invest in medium format digital I would be seriously looking at the mamiya ZD. I got a chance to try one a few weeks ago and was very impressed. Its less than half the price of a hassy,phase one or Aptus back. It uses the same Dalsa chip as the Aptus 22mp back.Burt.
had a look at it and even took a few shots on one but dont think its worth the money. Also…..you need some computing power to manage the file size.
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