janm

Daniel,

Great idea! Rodent-controlled shutters is clearly the wave of the future. But please, not arguments about the qualities of European mice vs Japanese mice. ;)

Here's a weird question: wouldn't it be quite easy for Zeiss to build

an aperture-priority lens for the Hasselblad 503? The body has a

mechanism which can tell a flash to shut down when enough light has

been received, so why not use the same mechanism to tell the shutter

to close when enough light has been received?

The lens would need a solenoid or something (and a battery?!) that

could close the shutter from an electrical signal, and you would run

a cable from the connector on the body to a connector on the lens.

Am I nuts or brilliant? ;)

Mikael,

This sounds "knasigt" (as we say in Sweden ;)... if different apertures result in different infinties there's probably something wrong with the lens.

/JanM

Ooops, my message wasn't complete: 6x7 (56 * 69.5) has a 67% larger area than 645 (56 * 41.5).

If you're talking about linear enlargement that's different... but the numbers still are wrong.

/JanM

Raymond, I don't understand your math.

A 645 negative (56 * 41.5) is 2.7 times the area of a 36 mm negative.

6x6 (56 * 56) has a 35% larger area than 645.

/JanM

What about scanning? There are still no good affordable medium format scanners, but my HP S20 PhotoSmart scans panoramic 35 mm at 2400 dpi.

/Jan

This is obviously a very, very late answwer, but since a lot of people use this database for searching I feel this reply is still valid.

My reply is simple: scanning.

There still are no good afforable medium format scanners, but my HP PhotoSmart S20 will scan 35mmm panoramics at 2400 dpi. And I'm sure many other 35 mm scanners will.

I've been thinking along the same lines. I think the scanner manufacturers believe that the MF market is too small. But if a good affordable MF-only scanner appeared it would capture pretty much the entire MF-market (except for the really high end)... almost daily I see requests in newsgroups etc for an affordable MF scanner.

I imagine something along the lines of an HP S20 Photosmart. No technological breakthroughs are required, the whole thing seems straightforward. Even if it cost $1000 it would be cheap compared to what's available today.

I live in Stockholm, and I'm afraid I have to agree with the earlier

answers... second week of October is too late.