Is it me or can I just not seem to find the product i want to buy very often, its like manufacturers know what i want and are very much not prepared to give it to me.
been looking at digital cameras to purchase. And just cant find anything decent, im finally at the point now where i want something thats equivalent to medium format but digital, that is as compact as possible has great lenses and has either ground glass screen waist level viewer capability, or an extremely high resolution waist level display in place of it, something like a modern compact digital RZ67 that doesnt weigh 5.5pounds. We seem to be stuck in this era of crappy little low resolution lcd’s small sensor compacts with noise and highlight clipping, where you can never tell whether images is really in focus without buggering about and zooming in loads, or wierd hug them to your eyeball style digital 35mm journalistic style SLR imitators, with no live preview, ok the 450d has live preview on a crappy screen.
and the area that light falls on in these is piddly ie :
look at this link to see the real issue with digitalcameras sensor size !
and you will see that with modern digital camera the area of which light falls and is captured by the sensor is tiny, and to some extent the small yet highly detailed sensors will be prone to high noise and theres no way round it. except to use larger sensors, but for the manufacturers they claim there is a cost issue for larger sensors, due to the fact that larger the ccd the less of them you get on a wafer and as such the number of defective ccd’s per wafer increases as the size of the ccd increases. To be honest just scale up wafer size or fabrication speed to compensate and give us reasonable ccd sizes.
Smaller ccd’s means they can use even smaller cheaper lens systems, whoopee even less light entering the camera. To be honest we need a trend reversal in digital cameras, we need to a fix a standard around high quality ccd sizes above certain dimensions, at least with 35mm or 120 film slide you could gurantee a certain level of quality whereas with digital cameras there is no standard just this shifting sand of sensor sizes and megapixel counts which are not really yielding the consumer the quality guarantee they deserve, regardless of the cameras lens and mechanics on old film camera at least when you used fuji velvia slide in 35mm or 120 roll you could pretty much guarantee a certain quality, whereas with digital cameras its currently a mine field.
Digital something equivalent to medium format slide ? >
I was looking at a phase one back and a RZ67 combination but its all to expensive, the kind of websites where noone talks price, they just say go see a dealer, and even they are not compact enough really for outdoor use. God digital photgraphy needs shaking up, we need bigger sensors better lenses that let more light in, and yet in more compact packages if posible. My fifth digital camera is not much greater than my second they all suffer the same issues, chromatic aberation, softness a lack of detail regardless of resolution and highlight clipping.
The Mamiya C330 pro S TLR I used to own 10 years ago with colour slide, still beats any digital camera under £5000 in terms of quality of image, digital just isnt giving me what i want yet. And yet I dont have the money to spend on processing or the £5-10k necessary to get digital gear that would be equivalent.