Mamiya ZD

Tired of your low res D2x , 1DsII ? Here's an upgrade for you:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/...ya-zd-ist.shtml

12,000 dollars is too much to spend on a camera no matter how good it is.

Tom

When I can afford 2 Ferraris, I might want one or two of these as well

Where can I get a housing?

Hi!

Where can I get a housing?

Prototyping is an expensive hobby.

Helge ;-)=)

Hi!

UK-Germanydid one for a Hasselblad recently and housed a Sinar some time ago. They have experience with this size of cameras (and wallets ;-)

Prototyping is an expensive hobby.

 

Helge ;-)=)

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Thanks for the tip. Hmmm, wonder if I have any rich relative who might leave me a nice estate somewhere!

Hi!

AFAIK the guy who ordered the Hasselblad housing needed it for a single shooting only. It should be on sale or available for rent later on. You may contact UK-Germany for details.

Helge ;-)=)

Interesting discussion. I have to say I don't see it being a useful UW camera because big sensors (or film) are not that suited to UW shooting.

The problem that I have with my Hasselblad is that a large sensor has less depth of field for a given subject size in the frame. With medium format cameras this becomes quite limiting for UW photography.

Most people who want to shoot MF underwater are pro photographers on land. Who are comissioned for one shoot underwater and don't realise that underwater photography is different to land photography! The mistake they tend to make is to use long-ish lenses and have to back away from their subjects too far and end up shooting through too much water!

A lack of depth of field is OK for shooting model setups in the pool, but it is not suited to shooting in the ocean.

Add a bit of Orange and Grey to the Mamiya - and it looks like a Nikonos RS!

Alex

Alex is spot on here. Having hired out the 1DS housing to several pros for pool and other shoots, there have been no problems with file size whatsoever - and the largest phot agencies seem to be satisfied with 50Mb tiffs so there is little reason for them to actually look towards larger sensors. Whilst the idea of housing such a camera might appeal, the downsides are reduced lens options, tighter focus requirements, significant optical constraints and I would imagine COST.

All this said, I expect that someone will finally house this or a similar camera.

On an aside, I recently rewatched Kubrick's "2001, a space odyssey". In the film there is a sequence showing a photoshoot of astronauts in front of the Obelisk on the moon. The camera being used would look extremely familiar to Alex - yes its a housed Hasselblad similar to his. Which goes to prove that medium format housings have more uses than just underwater!

It's got all the style of an old Skoda I used to own.

The UW housing shown in 2001 is the old 'Triton' housing made for Hasselblad by Hugy.

If one really wanted these megapixels it might be better for now just to use one of the medium format housings in circulation and scan the film.

Which Sinar? They make (made?) a special body called the Handy for the 47mm Super-Angulon that might be interesting UW (for just one shot per dive), but a view camera!!! However, I seem to recall seeing an old International Photo Technik magazine (Grossbild in German) a few decades ago with a view camera, probably a Linhof, UW in a plexiglass housing.

Tom