Unf*ing Believable! Sinar 6x6 Digital SLR

[amateriat]

My thoughts exactly. As w/the movie industry industry, I'm guessing most pro still shooters rent such "bleeding edge" equipment for specific jobs rather than buy it.

In fact, if you wanted to shell out the frighteningly big bucks a Panavision camera would cost, you couldn't...they only rent/lease the things out. In some ways, we might be approachng this point with certain high-end digital camera gear.


- Barrett

 

[Abbazz]

If I had lots of money freed up and waiting to be spent or if I were a professional photographer who could translate such a buy into additional net profits, then having such a Sinar in a studio setting would be perfect. It also would be great for architectural photography and fashion photography.

Raid,

I'm not quite sure this camera is aimed at the fashion photographers market. They have switched to Canon EOS 1Ds cameras en masse and I doubt they will come back to medium format anytime soon.

Cheers!

Abbazz

 

[Socke]

A local Studio uses Hassy H2Ds and Linhof Kardans and ordered Rollei Hy6s for their existing Rollei 6000 acessories. The scrapped their E6 machine this year, they couldn't even give it away for free.

They save on film, processing, polaroids and time, a typical shoot on location can be done in a day or two where it took them the better part of a week with film.

So yes, if you can make use of this kind of equipment it makes sense to use it, or the competition will.

 

[Didier]

There is just a limit to the resolution of the magazine and media printing process beyond which it's pointless to go.

No. I happen to work in media and ad business. In many cases, one can't have enough resolution, enough detailed pictures. You never know what the client or his art directors want to do with the pictures, afterwards. Maybe a strong crop. Or use it for giant posters. Or cinema slides.

16 megapixels are mostly ok for brochures and magazines up to 300 dpi. But some hi-gloss print magazines request 450-600 dpi, "Du" for instance, a here well known art magazine. There you are already at the limit with uncropped dslr pictures. And we have huge print ads here in the city. 12m large, 4m high. With the standard ad poster resolution of 111 dpi you would need 916 megapixel. As there's no camera with such a capacity, you lower the resolution and upsize your medium format pictures.

Didier