On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:31:26 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


Joe Gwinn wrote:

Ed,

I recall you saying that many pros were using Sony DSLRs, with
full-frame (24 Mpix) sensors. This would be the moral equivalent of
35mm Kodachrome.

What are the pros using to replace 2-1/4 by 2-1/4 (Hassy), 4x5, 8x10,
and so on up?

I'd hazard that digital may be approaching 2.25x2.25, but the larger
negatives are still out of reach.

Thanks,

Joe Gwinn

Take a look on the B&H site, I see a number of 80MP camera bodies
available at prices comparable to a nice car.

SLR medium format has, for decades, been primarily a realm for
advertising and weddings. Product photography, fashion, display
advertising, and commercial photography for collateral (brochures and
other printed pieces) are the primary places where they've been used.
For a while, well-off amateurs picked up some of them, but lens prices
were a killer.

Now, as you saw from those prices, digital medium-format has reverted
to those high-buck commercial applications where the fees will pay for
it. I don't know what wedding photographers are using now. But I
talked to a few industrial photographers when I was deciding what to
buy, last year, and they had either moved to, or were moving to, the
high end of the small-format cameras.

Even there, the high-end Zeiss lenses that amateurs pine for are on
the order of $1,000 each. You really have to shop carefully and be
realistic about what you need.

--
Ed Huntress