Patrick
Image from a recent senior session
I know this may be techie… but. The new lens I got when I sold off my medium format gear has been so much fun in studio. I can shift between strobe shooting and available light with one lens, f5.6 to f2 in without swapping lenses or cameras. The image above is shot at f2 using the modeling light of my strobe.
I recently removed Phase One from the toolbox. I have been using
digital medium format cameras for my portrait work (on and off, then on again) since 2002. I was able to transfer the gear into lenses for the Canon, and that has been wonderful. I do miss some aspects of the Phase, but it was a good move.
My biggest concern for the future of the MF camera was centered on repair. I’m certain the back would last, but I had already replaced a shutter in the body, and that was a painful repair. They repaired it very quickly even though it had to go to Japan for repair. Forty minutes up the road from me is Canon factory repair service that will handle all my cameras and lenses at probably half to a third the price. It was a beautiful camera, and I loved using it, but for what I was shooting, it was… not in the spirit of where I needed to go.
