Thank you guys for the responses. Steve, I see a few inconveniences with the digital medium format. The Pentax 645z
does only have 50 megapixels on a sensor around 1.8 times bigger than 35mm, the best medium format digital camera
from Phase One has 100 mp from a true 645 sensor, at around 2.5 the size of the 35mm. Wouldn't drum scanning at
8000 dpi or wet processing of a 6x7 negative give me more mp and greater tonality, especially in B&W? The Pentax is
quite affordable, the Xf100 very expensive, but i could pull that off if i saw a great advantage of quality over 6x7 film. I
acrually havent seen a real say 400 megapixel scan from a medium format film, and in the case of all the scans are saw,
when I zoomed in, there were pixels, not film grain. I hit the limitations of the scanner, not the limitations of the lens/film.
The Mamiya is also more compact than the Pentax and the XF. And at the end of the day, even if I bought Mamiya 7II,
three lenses and a quality drum scanner, it would stil be less expensive than the Xf and it would be money invested
forever, if you see what i mean. The setup would still work 20 years from now, surely even much longer, but by I think by
20-30 years we will have some revolutionary new sensor technology that will blow everything we know today out of the
water. To return back to the original idea, the XF100 or the pentax will be outdated in a few years. The Mamiya 7 I could
use it till we count the resolution of our cameras in gigapixels :-)
