Hello dear friends.
What do you think - Canon need this market ?
Will we see any MF cameras and lenses of course any soon ?
What do you think - Canon need this market ?
Will we see any MF cameras and lenses of course any soon ?
IsaacImage said:Hello dear friends.
What do you think - Canon need this market ?
Will we see any MF cameras and lenses of course any soon ?
IsaacImage said:Hello dear friends.
What do you think - Canon need this market ?
Will we see any MF cameras and lenses of course any soon ?
100 said:But if the price drops the market for medium format could grow substantially and Canon might be interested.
Current full frame 35mm format might become the new APS-C and medium format the new full frame.
I don’t see that happening in the next 2 or 3 years, but in long term…
StudentOfLight said:A larger format could offer better low light capability, better background blur and a smaller diffraction limited aperture. For landscape and and portrait work these could all be put to good use. In terms of ergonomics sure you'd need to use longer focal lengths on a larger format but perhaps "DO" lens designs (which offer reduced size and weight) could be employed? Anyway, since this is supposedly "The Year of the Lens" maybe all Canon's new lenses will be forwards-compatible to a larger sensor size... perhaps an "XL" line of lenses.
phoenix7 said:I'm curious. How does digital MF have better low light capability? From what I've read on Luminous Landscape and other sites many (most?) MF backs don't even do above 800ISO and if they do it's not very good, also I've read they have issues with long exposure heat build up? Have I missed something lately that they are getting good 4 and 5 digit ISOs on digital MF backs now?
StudentOfLight said:A larger format could offer better low light capability...
On a theoretical 48x36mm (0.7x Crop) sensor: (Doubled FF sensor size)
1) SNR could be 41% better than equivalent full frame tech.
phoenix7 said:Also just as an aside, why so much comparison to Canons Cinema line? Did medium format film get used that much? Other than 70mm that is.
StudentOfLight said:phoenix7 said:I'm curious. How does digital MF have better low light capability? From what I've read on Luminous Landscape and other sites many (most?) MF backs don't even do above 800ISO and if they do it's not very good, also I've read they have issues with long exposure heat build up? Have I missed something lately that they are getting good 4 and 5 digit ISOs on digital MF backs now?
Most MF digital backs use CCD-based sensors and most smaller format cameras these days tend to use CMOS sensors so there is a difference in technology. The SNR numbers I put down are based on calculations where equivalent technology is employed, the only difference being the size of the sensor.
phoenix7 said:Also just as an aside, why so much comparison to Canons Cinema line? Did medium format film get used that much? Other than 70mm that is.
I didn't make any comparisons to Canon's cinema line, so I'm a bit confused. Was that question meant for someone else?