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I'm curious why they didn't include any medium format cameras (let alone large format cameras with movements ... how much does a 4x5 digital back cost?). For u

I'm curious why they didn't include any medium format cameras (let alone large format cameras with movements ... how much does a 4x5 digital back cost?). For under $2000, you can get a new 6x7 rangefinder with fixed lens and you'll pull tons more detail out of a slide or negative that large than you would out of a 35mm slide/neg. If you're willing to buy used (and why wouldn't you considering they're using digital cameras from 2003 in this review) you can get an awesome medium format or large format system for under $1000.

foldr 12y ago
I basically agree with you, but the price is a bit misleading if you don't include the cost of the scanner. I love shooting medium format, but on my $250 Epson the results are barely better (in terms of resolution) than I get from my iPhone 4S. Getting all the detail out of a negative usually works out pretty expensive. (Wet printing is cheap way to do it but it's really time consuming.)
- Brian-Puccio 12y ago
  I agree, scanning can be expensive (I've got a Coolscan for 35mm and I'm eyeing a v700 for 4x5). But if prints are the desired end result, it's still less than $10 to develop and print a roll of 35mm film. What's the price and cost of an inkjet, paper and ink carts? Then again, if all you're doing is taking quick snapshots to upload to instagram, just use whatever smartphone you have and don't bother buying an actual camera.
  - foldr 12y ago
    Yes, if you want prints then film is still an economical option. I think 120 film is kind of awkward for scanning because there are no affordable dedicated film scanners which handle it but it's still not quite big enough to get really good results from a flatbad. (It's tough to get more than 1200dpi of real resolution out of a flatbed and that only gives you 8MP for 6x6 negatives.)

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I'm curious why they didn't include any medium format cameras (let alone large format cameras with movements ... how much does a 4x5 digital back cost?). For u

by Brian-Puccio 12y ago

foldr 12y ago
I basically agree with you, but the price is a bit misleading if you don't include the cost of the scanner. I love shooting medium format, but on my $250 Epson the results are barely better (in terms of resolution) than I get from my iPhone 4S. Getting all the detail out of a negative usually works out pretty expensive. (Wet printing is cheap way to do it but it's really time consuming.)
- Brian-Puccio 12y ago
  I agree, scanning can be expensive (I've got a Coolscan for 35mm and I'm eyeing a v700 for 4x5). But if prints are the desired end result, it's still less than $10 to develop and print a roll of 35mm film. What's the price and cost of an inkjet, paper and ink carts? Then again, if all you're doing is taking quick snapshots to upload to instagram, just use whatever smartphone you have and don't bother buying an actual camera.
  - foldr 12y ago
    Yes, if you want prints then film is still an economical option. I think 120 film is kind of awkward for scanning because there are no affordable dedicated film scanners which handle it but it's still not quite big enough to get really good results from a flatbad. (It's tough to get more than 1200dpi of real resolution out of a flatbed and that only gives you 8MP for 6x6 negatives.)