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Interview: Leica head of Photo talks Medium Format with Forbes, May 9, 2013
If your name is Stephan, the chances are you will have a great career path at Leica ;-) Head of Professional Photo Stephan Schult, not to be confused with Stephan Daniel, gave a two page interview to Forbes talking about... Continue

New Medium Format Digital Backs: three new Phase One IQ2 series (one is Black and White with no Bayer nonsense), March 4, 2013
New cameras alert! Of the mainframe variety! Well, digital backs, not proper cameras-cameras. Phase One has announced three new IQ2 series medium format digital backs, the conventional IQ280 and IQ260 and the IQ260 Achromatic, which, as the name suggests, is... Continue

Pentax 645D body can now handle stabilized lenses (firmware update), December 28, 2012
Don't you forget about me sings the Pentax 645D medium format camera! Pentax did not forget as they have released a new firmware update that allows the camera to use stabilized lenses. Currently there is one recently-revealed Pentax MF lens... Continue

Pentax launches Pentax 645D MF without IR filter (100 copies), December 12, 2012
Oppa Pentax style! It may be mid-December, but the new product announcements are not dead yet! Pentax Japan has announced a new really-limited-number of Pentax 645D medium format cameras with the InfraRed filter removed. The camera is aptly named "Pentax... Continue

New Hasselblad H-system Macro Converter lens for 1200 euro, December 11, 2012
Yes, it is December, and we rarely get big announcements in December, but that does not mean December is a barren month. In addition to companies trying to leap-frog backwards the busy time of CES and PMA 2013 which happen... Continue

Hasselblad Trade Show Floor round-up: H5D, Lunar, Sony relationship, and Lunar controversy (price, ugliness), September 19, 2012
And now it is time to round up Hasselblad, a company that managed to get more of the spotlight than they usually do thanks to their new luxury mirrorless Lunar camera and their new long term co-operation agreement with Sony...... Continue

New 645DF+ medium format body by Phase One Mamiya Leaf (and SK 28/4.5 lens), September 17, 2012
The Leica S is not the only new medium format camera announced at Photokina 2012. The train that is Phase One Mamiya Leaf has announced the new 645DF+ camera body that proclaims support for 50+ digital backs and 80+ lenses.... Continue

New Leica S medium format and three MF lenses, September 17, 2012
Leica is not done yet! They have announced a new Leica S medium format camera and four medium format lenses to go with it! The new Leica S has a 37.5 megapixel CCD sensor (30x45). Leica S Medium Format camera... Continue

Arca-Swiss announces Rm3d Factum, LulF, Rl3di, Monoballs, e-module, September 16, 2012
Not to be confused with Alpa and the recently announced Alpa 12 FPS, Arca-Swiss has announced three main new products and a three more auxiliary. You can find them summarized at Photoscala (computer-translated). After some crafty googling, we found an... Continue

New ALPA 12 FPS (focal plane shutter), September 14, 2012
Continuing with the Photokina 2012 announcement wave, we have a new modular piece from Alpa, the Alpa 12 FPS. FPS in this case does not stand for frames per second, but rather, focal plane shutter. It is interesting that medium... Continue

New Rolleiflex Hy6 Mod2 and twin-lens FX-N MF TLR (film) and Electronic Shutter, September 11, 2012
The Rolleiflex brand has announced three new products today in the build-up to the Photokina 2012 trade show: + the Rolleiflex Hy6 Mod2 + the twin-lens Rolleiflex FX-N medium format 6x6 TLR film camera + the DHL Electronic Shutter No.... Continue

New Hasselblad H5D medium format camera officially announced, September 11, 2012
Hasselblad has just announced via press release the brand new Hasselblad H5D medium format camera! The camera will be officially announced at Photokina 2012 on Tuesday September 18 at 2pm Photokina time. The H5D will be available in multiple megapixel... Continue

New Pentax 645 lens: 90mm f2.8 FA D ED SR AW HD Macro Stabilized, September 10, 2012
Stabilize this! Pentax has announced a new lens for their 645 medium format system, and surprise-surprise, this new lens is optically stabilized! It is the new 90mm f2.8 FA D lens, with these additional chains hanging from its neck: ED,... Continue

Two Duels: Nikon D800s vs Medium Format cameras, July 30, 2012
The Nikon D800s (the D800 and D800e as a group) have thrown down the glovelet (glove + gauntlet) and have challenged the world of medium format cameras. Two independent duels have been posted the last couple of days: + Nikon... Continue

Curiosity factor: Pentax 645D vs Nokia Pureview 808 (both around 40mp~), July 30, 2012
And now something you/we don't see every day. A comparison that would not have been possible a few weeks ago, but it is possible now. A clash of two 40~-megapixels cameras! And they couldn't be any more different! It is... Continue

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