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 P45+) I would have to say no. If I owned Mamiya lenses, or had decided that a Mamiya medium format system was what I was after, I would be hard pressed to choose the AFDII and P25 over the ZD. Yes, the P25 is a superior digital imaging device, but its simply not that much better – as I say, if it were my money being spent.
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Luminous Landscape has a new review of the 22 Megapixel Mamiya ZD done by EfraÃn GarcÃa 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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Today Engadget’s Japanese bureau has confirmed the reports out of Japan that indicate Mamiya will be selling off its film and digital camera business. Plagued with stagnant sales of its high end digital models is but one of the reasons Mamiya has chosen to throw in the towel.
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Mamiya’s meidum format 645AFDII has been reviewed at Shutterbug and they had this to say. “The Mamiya 645AFDII, with a rollfilm or digital back, will allow you to produce the highest quality photographs possible today, short of using large format. In my opinion, Mamiya has set a high standard for the rest of the industry.”
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Mamiya’s 22 Megapixel ZD has been reviewed at Luminous Landscape and they write: “So in the end, the Mamiya ZD is a camera that every photographer who needs or wants the large files that a 22 MP sensor produces should take a look at, especially if he or she is on a tight budget. Or, of course, if the form-factor appeals to you, there is no other camera like this currently on the market. And using the camera with studio strobes, there would be no vibration problems.”
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Looks as though U.K. photographers will get their hands on Mamiya’s new 22 Megapixel ZD before anyone else in the world, including the U.S. In an announcement at Focus On Imaging 2006 at the NEC, Birmingham, JP Distribution made the announce of the availability of the ZD in the U.K.
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Mamiya has placed nine high resolution sample JPEG photos taken with the new 22 megapixel Mamiya ZD. Photos are broken into three categories, portrait, still-life, and nature.
Note: People of the village, these are BIG files and unless you’re on high speed broadband they’ll take forever to load. Even ON broadband they are slow…
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Press Release:
DALSA Corporation: Mamiya Sets Shipping Date for Digital SLR Featuring DALSA 22 Megapixel Chip
WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(CCNMatthews - Dec. 1, 2005) - DALSA Corporation (TSX:DSA), an international high performance semiconductor and electronics company, today announced that its customer, Mamiya, has set a shipping date for its new Mamiya ZD medium format camera. The professional grade camera, which integrates DALSA’s 22 million pixel image sensor chip, will be available in Japan on December 21st, 2005, and will be released world-wide in January 2006. [click to continue...]
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