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Thanks for the info, maybe you can help with some questions. I have been MF digital since 1999 so I've seen a lot of backs come and go. Started with Leaf, switched to Sinar and went back to Leaf, currently Aptus 75 on an H1. I shoot everything, studio, still life, people, locations, everything. I held the Leaf AFI when it first came out but had issues with lens availability and the fact I had H lenses and especially 120 macro AF. I use Sinar x large format reluctantly when I have to but have been inquiring with everyone for years about tilt shift MF, not that I ever believed it was possible. When H3 came out with a 28mm I was disappointed I couldn't use it on my H1 Leaf system. Now they have the HTS 1.5 tilt shift for 28mm, 35mm, 50mm and 80mm and 50 million MP. This looks like a perfect system except for one thing, I don't think the current Hassy chip image quality is as film like as Leaf, but of course, I have not tested the 50 mp's of either, that test is yet to come.
Honestly, when I heard Hasselblad had a 50MP coming with this amazing $5,300 tilt shift gizmo I thought it was my dream come true, not only super wide 28mm and 50MP but tilt shift also, and on 4 lenses! Goodbye forever Sinar X you clunking slow monster. Plus I get to keep and use my H1 lenses. But here is the problem, I love my leaf back and don't want to give it up. But I also have some very tough questions.
So now you have a 56MP rotating back afi 10, that's great. But some of the issues still remain. The lens availability and the tilt shift component for 2 big ones. It seems there is no afi lens that can match Hasselblad 28mm and there is no afi tilt shift ability, and no afi 120 macro AF. The lens list issue is still very unclear on the Leaf website.
Here is what needs clearing up:
1. A list of all lenses available now for the AFI 10, and a list of what's coming and when.
2. Is there a super wide lens like the H3 28mm now or coming.
3. Clarity on what Leaf means by "digital" schneider lenses. Does this mean they are sharper or better digitally than all Rollei lenses, none of which were built with digital in mind, all Rollei are film lenses. I know they are Zeiss but are they digital and do they stand up to schneider? If the digital schneider is "the" lens for the afi10, why are there so few lens choices compared to H? Remember I said I was digital since 99, well I use to use my rollei 6008i and zeiss lenses with the sinar and it was good, but the day I put it up against the H1 with it's digital lenses the H1 lenses blew it away; the rollei lenses did not hold up in so many ways.
4. Is there or will there be a 120 macro AF like the H1 120 macro AF?
5. Is there or will there be a tilt shift mechanism like the HTS 1.5?
I know these are tough questions, but the irony is, I probably wouldn't be asking them if the H3 did not have a 50 MP, AF 120 macro, 28mm AF and tilt shift on 4 lenses, but it does. I know this is a lot of stuff, but here's another, I know from the specs, that the new Hassy 50mp has a 3" very sharp HD type view screen; the current leaf 75 is big, but very poor quality compared to a Nikon D3 for example, and terrible in the sun. If the afi 10 had a killer screen, it would go a long way in it's favor. What about it?
Thanks for th info!
Thanks for the info, maybe you can help with some questions. I have been MF digital since 1999 so I've seen a lot of backs come and go. Started with Leaf, switched to Sinar and went back to Leaf, currently Aptus 75 on an H1. I shoot everything, studio, still life, people, locations, everything. I held the Leaf AFI when it first came out but had issues with lens availability and the fact I had H lenses and especially 120 macro AF. I use Sinar x large format reluctantly when I have to but have been inquiring with everyone for years about tilt shift MF, not that I ever believed it was possible. When H3 came out with a 28mm I was disappointed I couldn't use it on my H1 Leaf system. Now they have the HTS 1.5 tilt shift for 28mm, 35mm, 50mm and 80mm and 50 million MP. This looks like a perfect system except for one thing, I don't think the current Hassy chip image quality is as film like as Leaf, but of course, I have not tested the 50 mp's of either, that test is yet to come.
Honestly, when I heard Hasselblad had a 50MP coming with this amazing $5,300 tilt shift gizmo I thought it was my dream come true, not only super wide 28mm and 50MP but tilt shift also, and on 4 lenses! Goodbye forever Sinar X you clunking slow monster. Plus I get to keep and use my H1 lenses. But here is the problem, I love my leaf back and don't want to give it up. But I also have some very tough questions.
So now you have a 56MP rotating back afi 10, that's great. But some of the issues still remain. The lens availability and the tilt shift component for 2 big ones. It seems there is no afi lens that can match Hasselblad 28mm and there is no afi tilt shift ability, and no afi 120 macro AF. The lens list issue is still very unclear on the Leaf website.
Here is what needs clearing up:
1. A list of all lenses available now for the AFI 10, and a list of what's coming and when.
2. Is there a super wide lens like the H3 28mm now or coming.
3. Clarity on what Leaf means by "digital" schneider lenses. Does this mean they are sharper or better digitally than all Rollei lenses, none of which were built with digital in mind, all Rollei are film lenses. I know they are Zeiss but are they digital and do they stand up to schneider? If the digital schneider is "the" lens for the afi10, why are there so few lens choices compared to H? Remember I said I was digital since 99, well I use to use my rollei 6008i and zeiss lenses with the sinar and it was good, but the day I put it up against the H1 with it's digital lenses the H1 lenses blew it away; the rollei lenses did not hold up in so many ways.
4. Is there or will there be a 120 macro AF like the H1 120 macro AF?
5. Is there or will there be a tilt shift mechanism like the HTS 1.5?
I know these are tough questions, but the irony is, I probably wouldn't be asking them if the H3 did not have a 50 MP, AF 120 macro, 28mm AF and tilt shift on 4 lenses, but it does. I know this is a lot of stuff, but here's another, I know from the specs, that the new Hassy 50mp has a 3" very sharp HD type view screen; the current leaf 75 is big, but very poor quality compared to a Nikon D3 for example, and terrible in the sun. If the afi 10 had a killer screen, it would go a long way in it's favor. What about it?
Thanks for th info!