This R&D would be too costly for Rollei or Contax. Pentax cameras is creating is own medium format digital camera. Mamiya cameras has created its own digital backs and integral digital camera, the ZD. At PMA Rollei showed a nice 6008 AF with a Phase One 16-megapixel back at a reasonable price, but other than this, there is no formal relationship. So that leaves Leaf and Phase One digital backs as having no camera partner.Īnd Rollei and Contax have no digital back partner. Imacon digital backs are now allied with Hasselblad cameras Jenoptik digital backs have allied with Sinar cameras to hold the backs. Medium format alliances are beginning to form to insure survivalīronica has disappeared from the scene due to inability to adapt fast enough to digital reality in the realm of medium format cameras. The Mamiya has a fixed viewfinder: you can't change to a more convenient one, so for giclee, the Contax camera would be a better choice.Ī Contax "magnifier F-2N" might help in photographing pistils and stamens of flowers. When the camera such as the Contax 645 is high up on a copy stand you can't see through a normal viewfinder. All work is done on a sturdy Gitzo or Manfrotto tripod.Īnd a right angle viewfinder or waist-level viewfinder is not for shooting from the hips, but for photographing oil paintings for giclee from a reprographic copy stand.
I take several lighting values of the same scene and have them merged in Adobe Photoshop so there is detail in my shadows, brilliance in the overall scene, and detail with surface texture clearly visible in the highlights. I desire an easy mirror lock-up to reduce camera shake and an easy auto bracketing system for my style of luminescent lighting. But I will have to try the Contax 645 out to see how intuitive it is when in a real world shoot out on location.Ī self-timer and remote shutter release is also a feature I need. I instinctively like cameras with dual manual-auto focus and manual override for auto focus. In the snapshot here the FLAAR evaluation team is using a Hasselblad H1 with an Imacon Ixpress 528C back. We have two Hasselblad ELX cameras which can accept digital backs. We are interested in the Rollei 6008 AF as well. Since we don't yet have a Contax 645 we continue to use Hasselblad and Mamiya 645. It is not fair for a company that is shutting down, bankrupt, or otherwise not capable of continuing when they pretend that nothing is happening. "Reviews and awards" date to 1998 through 2002 as if time was frozen. No information that the camera no longer exists (in the sense of, there will be nothing new, indeed nothing at all is being manufactured). When you go to the Contax 645 page, same thing. There was absolutely no mention of the fact that production of the cameras and lenses had stopped. In August 2005, there was no link for new news releases on the ContaxUSA website (ToCAD), as if everything was in limbo since February. Contax 645 medium format camera for digital backs.
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