Studioworks

March 08, 2010 at 4:23pm

Quakindudemod and yorchata are exactly right it "all" has to do with sensor sizes... but hey Keith is also correct when he states 40mp doesn't mean it takes nice pictures... but this isn't your standard camera, this isn't even 'just' a dslr... it's a medium format dslr, this is not meant to be compared to companies such as Olympus, Sony, or heck even Canon or Nikon. A medium format camera (as mentioned) is meant for things such as billboards and landscape shots for making ridiculously large prints, you can pick on a lot of things such as 1. "terrible frame rate" ... 60 frames a minute... that's 1 fps... most newer cameras nowadays at least shoot 3 times that amount, Nikon's D700 will shoot 8fps with the additional battery back... but that's not what this camera is for. My camera has ISO sensitivity of 100-6400, Nikon's D3s has ISO sensitivity from 100 to 102,400 and it's a quarter of his price, these sensitivities make the mamiyas 80-800 laughable, but that's not what this camera is competing with.Medium format cameras have their own "class" Mamiya's latest release will be competing with companies such as hasselblad and Phase One, 20 thousand for a camera of this level is a pretty good price!The quality of the images taken by cameras like this are amazing, you would "almost" think it's worth the price tag, my uncle has himself a nice hasselblad and the prints he makes are ridiculous, although these cameras are directed towards professional he use he is more of an intense hobbyist and always spends his money in order to get the "best"