Hi Sylwester thanks for that nice and interesting report and the photo samples! greetings Markus
>>-----Original Message----- >>From: Sylwester Pietrzyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:05 PM >>To: Papug >>Subject: [OT] Mamiya ZD presentation >> >> >>Today, thanks to the biggest Polish photo portal I had an opportunity >>to be on official Polish presentation of Mamiya ZD - for these who >>are not aware - 22 megapixel medium format DSLR ;-) The camera >>appeared to be a very interesting tool for professional photographers >>(with its price around 10000 Euros it won't rather find place among >>amateurs ;-) The body had some nice features like dual card slots (CF >>and SD), had good ergonomics, felt very nice in hand especially that >>it is around size and weight of Pentax 645 - this means around size >>and weigth of hi-end 35 mm bodies. Just LCD was far too small for >>today's standards - only 1.8". With camera there was presented Mac >>software for it, enabling "tethered shooting" (taking photographs and >>sending them directly to computer) among other interesting features. >>ZD 120/4 macro lens was mounted on ZD, and while it was top >>performing glass 9See samples below), I was less than impressed by >>its build quality - one class lower than Pentax FA645 120/4 macro. >>During presentation visitors had an opportunity to try the camera >>themselves. You could take either macro photos of car model or do >>some portraits of model. Fortunately I had my SD card with me so I >>gave ZD a try taking shots of beautiful model. Photos were saved as >>RAWs (MEF format - each file around 35 MB), then converted to .DNG >>and slightly edited in Lightroom to be finally exported as high >>quality JPEGs. If you are interested in how good can look photos from >>22 MPix MF DSLR you can download them from my page. I put two samples >>with low-res previews as target linked photos are ~4 MB each >>compressed (61 MB after decompression) so it is better to save them >>to your local disk and open in your favourite photo editing >>application. Colour space of target photos is Adobe RGB. Here they are: >>http://nasdwoje.e9.pl/pictures/MamiyaZD.html >>Of cource for hardcore lovers - I can send RAWs straigth from the >>camera ;-) >>Now let's wait for presentation and samples from Pentax 645D. I bet >>it can be even more impressive machine than ZD ;-) >> >> >>Cheers, >>Sylwek >> >>
