Luminous Landscape has a new review of the 22 Megapixel Mamiya ZD and writes, “Body differences aside, is the Phase One back and an AFDII body worth twelve thousands dollars (about US$10,000) more than the ZD? As a Phase One owners for the past several years (a P25, followed by a P45, and shortly a [...]

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Luminous Landscape - 8/31/2006 - has a new review of the 22 Megapixel Mamiya ZD done by Efraín García and Rubén Osuna and they write: “We think medium format cameras offer better image quality, but at a price. These cameras are more difficult to handle. Each professional or aficionado should evaluate his needs. The market seems to think that alternative systems based on the 35mm format are more convenient: wider arrays of diverse, faster and stabilized lenses, good performance at high ISOs, not so much lower resolution and more versatility (one mount for many different tools). Mamiya has successfully resolved several drawbacks of medium format digital: relative price (to some extent) and size. The ZD seems to be usable for handheld fast operation, due to its form and size, but this is not exactly true. The unique selling point of medium format cameras is superb image quality at low ISOs, in the studio or in location, with tripod mounted cameras. Mamiya has carefully preserved these typical advantages of the medium format cameras. Whether this will be enough for Mamiya and the medium format market in the long run, we cannot know it. Time will tell.”

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