Why Medium Format

[@colinfwalters]

Thanks, that was a great video. Really appreciate your patient and measured demonstrations in all of your videos.

[@prsearls]

I shot medium format film back in the 80's. A local professional shoots medium format digital to produce huge landscape prints for hospitals, businesses, large homes, etc.. The detail in his prints is amazing. The costs of this type of equipment is very high and beyond what I could ever afford. A digital back on a view camera could have many advantages in a studio setting. I also shot 4x5 film and really enjoyed the slow and deliberate setup normally used with this kind of equipment. Swings and tilts give tremendous control of DOF and other parameters useful in architecture and product work. That large negative/transparency had wonderful resolution you could not get in smaller formats back then. I was (still am) a big fan of Ansel Adams and his large format work.

[@leto_len]

Thanks for sharing information on medium format.

[@tonybongo1122]

Happy Christmas. Keep up the good work.

[@LarryGoodwin-DEN]

Thank you for your great videos. Going through them one at a time. I have been using a Phase One system since the 645DF. The XF with the IQ4 is truly amazing. The frame averaging, built in focus stacking, and exposure to the right, are great features. Powering over USB-C and tethering over Ethernet is fantastic and no worries about changing batteries. I mostly use the ES unless I a using Profoto flash. The lenses are incredibly sharp. I am also using the XT for a lot of my field work. Capture One on the iPad is a game changer for both studio and field work. I have gotten into macro photography with a full frame camera but I am looking into bellows or getting into a Cambo system to give me the flexibility of the swings and tilts that a view camera has and using the IQ4 back. So many options.

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@jojoemakorlly8116]

From Ghana, I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas Sir

[@squidskunk]

sweet set up.

[@thomastuorto9929]

This is the Medium Format Large as compared to the Fuji film & newer Hassleblad X2D 100C when one is talking the physical size of the sensors, which is Medium Formar light. Someone mentions 6X7 film in the comments. One can’t pull up the shadows & twist the photo anyway they like even after converted to digital, like one can with a photo taken with a digital sensor.

[@firemeditation]

The Phase One is too expensive for me, so now I use the Hasselblad 907X. Similarly, I am also very concerned about the experience brought by the leaf shutter.

[@joshmcdzz6925]

Well couldnt afford this years ago so I went the route of the Mamiya rb67 (6x7 which can capture more than a 100MPx if scanned for that and a native leaf shutter ) which was PhaseOne acquired at the start of the digital age..

[@jacephotos]

If wishes were Pennie’s, I to would have a phase one! ❤😊

[@pjcornelius]

I’ve wanted a Phase One for many years. But for the obvious reason (cost) I never got one.

[@thomastuorto9929]

Me & you both. But then again, if my pockets were deeper, I would own one of everything.

[@jumpingjohn280459]

I’ve never heard anyone use the word ‘economic’ when talking about Phase One cameras before! I also use a modular, medium format camera system, but mine is a rather more moderately priced Bronica film camera. Thank you so much for your videos, which never fail to be instructive and inspiring.

[@zaurstrig7608]

That is biggest question how to setup price for your photography service, which is give you opportunities to buy that camera system

[@georgedruin1058]

Too bad all that versatility comes at such great cost 🙂