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"I'm Back" digital MF back

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Posted: Tue Jul 23rd, 2019 16:36

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chrisbet

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I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole - why pay out all that cash when you can pick up a better quality used digital camera or even a new compact for the same or less?

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Posted: Thu Jul 25th, 2019 02:45

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As rob says it's a pointless exercise even more so with the advent of mirrorless cameras I.e my Panasonic g80 will take adaptors for most classic legacy glass , I have both Nikon and m42 adaptors .once mounted to the camera a screen comes up asking me to input the lens focal length . It also has the double image thing to get perfect focus as well forget what it's called .

Plus if I for instance put on my vivitar 200mm f3.5 legacy lens it immediately becomes a 400mm f3.5 with 4 way I.b.i.s and it works well to ,I simply set it for infinity and it will do b.i.f nicely .

So basically there is no need in this day and age for a digital unit for old cameras.

I also believe that adaptors are starting to appear for the latest full frame mirrorless especially Sony models

Posted: Thu Jul 25th, 2019 03:58

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If I could have a Hasselblad 2000FCW or 205FF with 150mm f4 CF with a digital back (25MP or 40MP) then I would love this but I wont be spending the money to obtain this when I have D850 and Z7 with 105mm f2.8 (both cameras are 45MP).

At present the 'Hasselblad V back' digital back is hugely expensive and 'crippled' as it only uses a small central part of the 60x60mm frame, namely 36.7 x 49mm. This doesn't work as a digital solution for me. It has to be 60x60 or nothing.

I would certainly NOT ever want to go back to film.

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Posted: Thu Jul 25th, 2019 15:27

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jk wrote:
It has to be 60x60 or nothing.

Absolutely, that's the whole point of MF, crop in post process. The moment I leant that the digital 'MF' was little more than 35mm format I lost interest.

I agree about not wishing to go back to film, although soon it may not even be possible?

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Posted: Tue Aug 20th, 2019 20:41

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Interesting concept, would get some of my shelf queens out from time to time. 16mp should give a reasonable print and it could be fun. I shoot the odd roll of film, but the post is so so and it is costly. Hypo has shipping restrictions, I hate to think of what paperwork collodion would take to get.
This is easy, don't like the long wait time, will probably order one, or 3.\, after the funding is over.

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