Thank you. No, thank you.

I'm always impressed with how much you can stuff into these plastic bags without them breaking. 

Say hello to my little friend!

Pictured above is my new Sinar P3 that accepts my 39MP Hasselblad multi-shot back. It's not an inspired image, just to say I've got a view camera again. I had a Sinar P2 view camera forever, shot film with it and then converted it to accept 3 different digital backs. It worked great but it was designed to shoot film and was big, clunky and cumbersome by today's standards. I sold it a few years ago when I got my new Hasselblad. I soon discovered a problem with using a Hasselblad, and that is you're pinned to the focus ranges of their lenses. If you want to shoot with anything other than a 120mm lens and be closer than a couple feet, and get it in focus, you need a view camera. 

Most people don't know what a view camera is, a quick explanation: remember the big cameras with the cloth you put over your head - that's a view camera. They used to accept big sheets of film, this one is specific to a CCD sensor. Besides unlimited focus ranges, you can change perspective and adjust your plane of focus via the Scheimpflug principle. (I love knowing what that means, as well as "bellows extension factor".) Also have other adjustments with these beautiful pieces of Swiss made precision that you can't get with anything else. Very psyched to have a view camera again, especially a "small" one just for digital backs!