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Mamiya ZD Medium Format DSLR Review
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Review Summary
Reader Score: 7.48 (out of 10)
Hands-On Preview: Not long ago, most serious photographers dreamed of joining the elite club of pros who shot with 6x4.5cm or 21¼4-inch medium-format cameras. Why? Nearly all top wedding, portrait, and nature shooters favored medium format for its ability to produce higher-quality photos than the lightweight 35mm SLRs carried by photojournalists. But the image quality gap narrowed in the '90s as 35mm slide and print films improved dramatically, showing clearly that good 35mm lenses surpassed most medium-format glass in sharpness. The digital SLR onslaught has further eroded the mystique of medium format, as most DSLRs to date have been designed to
accept 35mm lenses. In this digital world, can medium-format systems survive?
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Other Reviews For This Model
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| PDNOnline |
5.75 |
06-01-05 |
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| The Mamiya ZD, even in its current iteration is a powerful camera. Engineers in Japan will need to ensure that the image processing time is short enough to make the camera a viable option in the studio or in the field, but aside from the buffering times and the image-quality quirks of the early version firmware, the Mamiya ZD is already good to go.
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| Luminous-Landscape |
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03-27-06 |
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| Review: "The way the ZD is designed could lead to a false assumption – that it is a camera that can be used handheld like a 35 mm DSLR. But with 22 million pixels and the resulting high image quality even the smallest errors will be seen in the resulting image. And though I have had reasonable to perfect results with the use of a Hasselblad H1D in the same fashion, I was not content with the handheld shots made with the ZD. Using a 200 mm lens and a shutter-speed of 1/320 sec I did not expect to have problems, but unfortunately, this was not the case.
The real question that remains is of course that of the image quality. My impression is that it is quite good, but it is not equal to that of the competition. An H1D with either a Hasselblad, Leaf, Sinar or PhaseOne digital back costs quite a bit more, but the images are of a higher quality. That will likely be because the lenses are better, and maybe because of the way the software does its job." |
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