Medium Format

[Spoooon]

Showed up today, loaded with film and ready for the weekend.

 

[Syborg1211]

Awesome! I just got a Hasselblad back in December and am enjoying medium format film! Here's a tip - taking photos of your developed film with a macro lens yields higher resolution and more dynamic range than using a scanner (even a pro scanner at a camera store). Focusing with a waist finder is also a proving to be a pain especially when shooting wide open with such a thin dof from medium format.

 

[Daedalus]

Do you develop your own or have a local place that still does 120 film?

 

[Spoooon]

Syborg: thanks for the tip! I was looking into setting up my own rig to scan photos with my camera and macro.

Daedalus: Nope, I wouldn't mind learning, but don't want to get too into it while renting. I've used thedarkroom.com before, considering giving thefindlab.com a try this go round.

 

[Kaido]

Awesome! I just got a Hasselblad back in December and am enjoying medium format film! Here's a tip - taking photos of your developed film with a macro lens yields higher resolution and more dynamic range than using a scanner (even a pro scanner at a camera store). Focusing with a waist finder is also a proving to be a pain especially when shooting wide open with such a thin dof from medium format.

I'm interested in the upcoming Leica 007 - $25k medium-format digital with 4K video:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082939-REG/leica_10804_leica_s_medium_format.html

Would be interesting to shoot some weddings with that thing...seems like it would pay for itself pretty quickly & give you a photographic edge with the mobility.

 

[finbarqs]

Don't know very many medium format cameras that shoot weddings... (as fast pace as weddings are, AF is your best bet -- And leica's aren't really known to be the king of AF)

In fact, you'd be better off with the Pentax 645Z...

There are many comparisons between the old Leica S and any new common DSLR's. In all actuality, Wedding photography is about how well you can market yourself. Nobody will be pixel peeping at the client level.

 

[radhak]

I've heard of medium format, but that's the limit of my knowledge.

So how is MF superior to the format I know - the full frame digital? Apart from it being only film? (That right? MF is only film?) Just a summary please - I'm not going to get into MF any time soon!

Who uses MF? Any pictures I can see online?

 

[Spoooon]

I've heard of medium format, but that's the limit of my knowledge.

So how is MF superior to the format I know - the full frame digital? Apart from it being only film? (That right? MF is only film?) Just a summary please - I'm not going to get into MF any time soon!

Who uses MF? Any pictures I can see online?

I guess one way to look at is is medium format is to full frame what full frame is to crop.

You can do digital medium format, but is way expensive. The Pentak mentioned above is probably the first that's accessible to a regular person, and it's still $8000.

 

[finbarqs]

645D is only half of that