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Can I ask...
What about the PhaseOne system? P45.. Is good? Better than H3d II 39?
The body... 645DF , how is the AF? And the viewfinder? Battery?
And... The lenses?
Thank You all!
I come from a Leica M9 system and luxes asph..
I'd say stick to your M9... or upgrade to the new M. Or buy a Nikon D800e.My main work is Candid portraits or Portraits, also the streets.
I advise you to get H4D-31 or if you can afford H4D-40, H3DII models don't have true focus and also not goos enough above ISO100, there are H4D-31 second hand you may find cheap, even with new as kit it is almost just double the price of top line of Canon/Nikon cameras.Thank so much.. But maybe I want to try another kind of photography, more "slow", good exercise for my mind.
United Arab Emirates.What's your country?
Marc, not sure why you say this about the Leica S. You consider your H4D-40 as a "Medium Format sized sensor", don't you? The Leica sensor is 1350 square mm in imaging area; the H4D-40 is 1460 square mm. The Leica sensor has a 54mm diagonal; the H4D-40 has a 55mm diagonal (with a different aspect ratio).Short questions requiring longer answers
The Leica S system is very diverse in concept ... it is more like a 35mm DSLR in handling, is 37 meg from a sensor that is in-between a 35mm and Medium Format sized sensors
Easy Ray ... no slight intended. Of course these days we all consider anything beyond 35mm to be Medium Format I guess ... but only a few are actually 645ish, and none are 6X6 or 6X7 digital. I consider the 40meg backs to be crop frame MFD ... which is what they are.Marc, not sure why you say this about the Leica S. You consider your H4D-40 as a "Medium Format sized sensor", don't you? The Leica sensor is 1350 square mm in imaging area; the H4D-40 is 1460 square mm. The Leica sensor has a 54mm diagonal; the H4D-40 has a 55mm diagonal (with a different aspect ratio).
So they are pretty damn close, whichever metric you use. In fact, since they use the same pixel size and the same Kodak 3rd gen microlensed design architecture, that headline difference of 37 MP vs. 40 MP is all the difference there is. Can you really say that an 8% increase in MP & area makes one sensor sub-medium format, while the other leaps up to the status of true medium format?
I consider both sizes to be medium format. And indeed the square 16MP backs of old, with an imaging area of 1350 square mm - by a remarkable coincidence, this is exactly the same as the Leica S!
Ray