"Mark B" wrote:

The Blad is a great camera but look at the prices of the lenses before you
buy. I needed more of a focal length selection than I could afford to buy
with the Hasselblad. The shutter is in the lens so each lens costs lots
more. If you can get by with just an 80mm then it has some advantages. I
might could now but couldn't then. Now I use mostly digital anyway.

Hehe. I could have written that. Were I seriously rich, a Hassy kit
consisting of the SWC, 60/3.5, and 100/3.5 might be interesting. Maybe.

My current take on things, though, is that 6x6 and 645 really aren't enough
film to justify their use given the 5D (or even the D2x, although you'll be
stuck at ISO 100 there). Mamiya 7, Mamiya RZ67, Pentax 6x7, and the Fuji
GSW690III and GW690III are what I'd be looking at today.

Another problem is scanning. Without a Nikon 9000 (or a real darkroom) it's
probably not possible to make even 6x9 compete with the 5D. The Epson V750
might do it, but by the time you're done, you'd have been better off just
buying a 5D.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan