Saturday, 13 March 2010

Medium Format Digital - do we need/want it?

Manchester based photographer Andrew Farrington ( www.andrewfphotography.com/ ) has just opened a new discussion on the Facebook site brought on by Pentax announcement of its imminent move into the Medium Format Digital/ Digital Back arena.

It would be interesting to know the thoughts of people on the whole issue of 'format' size:
Who uses MFDB's? Do you intend to buy into one of the systems at any time in the near future?
Or are they white elephants, given Nikon and Canon's forays into 'mega' megeapixel sensors? For that matter what is presently going on in the food still life studios that for so long shunned anything other than 10x8 large format despite the fact that the imagery often only appeared A4 size in magazines? Has the MFDB taken over from the the 10x8 or have still life shooters switched the whole way down to Canon and Nikon DSLR as the file quality continues to increase?

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