What system you mount your digital back on to? (AFi,Hy6 H1, H2, H3 AFD, Contax, Alpa etc)

Are you planing to change systems, or looking in to, say AFi, Hy6 .... or Nikon/Canon/Sony

I'm always curious where opt-in polls like this are intending to go...

Still, here's my saga:

P45 on Hassy 500
P45+ on Hassy 500
P45+ on Hassy H2
eMotion75LV on Hy6
P45+ on Phase One 645AF

All sold/traded away. And now,

P45+ on Contax 645AF

Use: nature photography, incl. wildlife.

Best regards,
-Brad

forgot mine..

P25 on AFD 35mm, 45mm, 80mm, 150mm

and SINAR 4x5 via adapter

leonardo

ps: intention of poll? none, just curiosity

Rollei 6008AF, planning to upgrade to Hy6 in future.

CF39 & CF39MS on H2F (2x), DigiFlex II (2x), Rollei X-Act2 en 503CW (just got one again but not sure yet what to do with it ).

Planning to continue using all of them and maybe getting an Alpa for outside fun.

I also use Nikon along these when I need to.

using Sinarback eMotion 75II with Sinar Hy6 & Sinar p2 4x5
planning to add Sinar arTec in the future.

Aptus 65 on AFDII & Sinar P2

Sinar 54LV on a Hy6

10 lenses.

Planning to get another Hy6 body.

Formerly:
-Mamiya ZD back (x2) - Thankfully out of my life now
-Mamiya AF/AFD/AFDII - gone but not forgotten

Currently:
Mamiya DL28 Kit:
-Leaf Aptus II 6 DB
-Mamiya AFD II
-55-110mm, 105-210mm, 45mm, 55mm, 80mm lenses

Horseman SWD-Pro II
-Rodenstock 35mm lens

Future: (in a parallel universe where money grows on trees)
-RED Mysterium 645 and 617 "brains"
-all the RED lenses accessories that fit in a Ford Transit gear truck

All Phase and will continue to unless I find something better that fits my needs.

Contax (2x), Cambo, P45
no
probably in addition a Sony A900

- P1 P25
- Hasselblad 503cw (looking for a cheap 180mm)
- Silvestri Flexicam
(- Nikon )


Tom-

Leaf Afi body, Afi-7 back
Canon DS1 Mark III (going to sell this one off. No reason to keep it, what with the Afi.

Making art.

Sinar eMotion 75LV on Contax with Hassy 110/f2 via adapter, plus standard Contax lens lineup, and Sinar P2. Would love to get a Hy6 and lenses one day if funds permit.

Ben

P45+ on an H2

Aptus 22 on Mamiya 645AFD/III and RZ67ProII

In demos I use(d) the Afi-7II and Afi-10 on several occassions.

Leaf Cantare XY on Fuji GX680III
Leaf Cantare XY on Sinarcam III
Leaf Valeo22wi on H2
Canon 5d

Cheers.

sinar emotion75 on contax 645 and sinar m.
" " on artec

canon 5d (soon II )
canon g10

H3DII 50

and

P45/A75 on alpa max/SWA.

peter

Leaf AFi7

Contax 645. Planning on getting a Sinar e54LV, if the Hy6 problems are solved. If not, probably P25 or P30, maybe P45. Maybe +.

2 Contax bodies with a P30. All good for the foreseeable future. Are there statistically more Contax users responding here, for some reason, or more of a user base than I realized?

P45+ on PhaseOne 645

My plans will be to have the back on a Linhof Techno and the new Phase body.

Sinarback 43HR, with P2 (Sinarcam 2), Mamiya 645 or RZ.

7 Sinaron digital lenses, and a lot of Sekor 645 & RZ. The Sinarcam 2 with the 43HR allows using of Nikon or Mamiya lenses. The PC Micro Nikkor 85mm tilt-shift is my favorite.

I'm generally using the 16-shots mode, who gives me 44 Mpix. The 24/36 format of the 43 is really nice for close-up (jewellery), but i think i will buy soon a 645 back (Sinarback 75H ???), nicer for wide-angle photography.

I also like my Nikon 700, a very nice machine : the Camera Control Pro program is really confortable. I'm quite allways working with my Mac's and Eizo screens.

PdF

Colorwave.
Interesting isn't it Contax is doing well...Brad has owned H, Hy6, Phase ..AND Contax. He can probably work as a consultant :-)

I'm not a scientist, so this is a soft calculation .. it is a small sample, but we can see some trends. Yes, Contax is alive and popular. People didn't sell their SINAR view cameras. Hasselblad H3 is not showing --maybe the owners are the busiest and will poll latter??-- AFi/Rollei/Hy6 is doing very well for such a young system Rollei is not young of course- ... what else? ah, yes, there is variety, no?

AFD/PHASE 6
RZ 1
CONTAX 6
AFI/HY6 ROLLEI 6
H1-2 3
hasselblad V 1
H3 1
sinar 4
SINARCAM 1
FUJI 1
OTHER

TOTAL SO FAR

Hi,
Using Aptus 75 on Alpa frame. Great tool.
Am now thinking about how best to do quality macro.
Dave

Could you please tell about what problems of Hy6 must be solved?

AFDII with the Aptus ( rental when required )
Canon 1Ds3 & 5DII ( most of the time )

Rollei 6008 AF / phase, Mamiya RZ

I've had plans to upgrade to the Hy6 at some point but have been waiting for either a back with good high ISO or a bigger square, or even just for phase to put their p45+ on the Hy6 - well that and all the cash its going to take too.

H3DII 50 , Canon and Leica M8

AFD II, Phase One P25+, Seven Mamiya lenses. ( + Canon)

H2 & Cambo Wide DS with Leaf Aptus 75

P45+ on Contax 645 and Alpa and Linhof M679 + lenses
H3D39 + lenses

Regards, K

I am doing an Excel document on the data you are providing us, but I made another round of hand counting for the cameras and backs.. it is something like this. It is late here, so I will revise it tomorrow and hopefully there will be more data coming.

Thank you for posting here.
Leonardo

AFD 9
CONTAX 7
H 6
SINAR 5
ALPA 3
RZ 2
HAS/ V 2
CAMBO 2
HY6 2
ROLLEI 2
AFI 1

BACKS

LEAF 12
PHASE 10
SINAR 2
HASSELBLAD 3

H3DII-31

lots of Nikon stuff

AFDII with P45

AFD II (55/50/150) w/P25.
Wide DS (24/35)
Toyo 45GX w/adapter
Canon 1d M3

Phase 645AF and Phase back
&
Canons

Hasselblad Ixpress V96C on Bronica SQ-B via a Silvestri V adapter
and sometimes a (rented) Kapture Group Truewide
A bunch of Nikons
Graflex Super Graphic for fun

Thinking of upgrading but haven't made up my mind which one yet.

Leaf Afi-II 7 +Rollei 6008AF lenses
Linhof 4x5

Gidday.

Sinar P2
Mamiya RZ ProIID
Mamiya 645 AFDII
Horseman VCC view adapter
Leaf Aptus 75
Nikon D2x Looking at purchasing a Nikon D700 and Nikon D3x this year.

Cheers

Simon

p45+

sinar p2 90% of the time
mamiya 645 AfD II 5% (but i'll probably sell it and stick with the canon)
canon eos 5DII 5%

Now there's an idea! Maybe I can earn back a few of the many $$$ lost on those switches!

And I guess I have my answer too, from my initial post--I too am surprised by the diversity of answers here as well as the strong showing from Contax. I didn't expect that at all.

-Brad

2 contax bodies with
phase p30+
Phase p21+


Actually 2 more contax bodies as backup.

35mm
Canon 1dsMKIII (2)
Canon 5DMK2
Canon 1ds

Nikon D700
Nikon D3
Nikon N-90

Leica M8

Next purchase either Hasselblad H2 (with a mount change for high shutter sync and the 100 F 2.2) or more likely a Nikon D3x.

Hasselblad/Imacon 528C on a Rollei 6008i; several lenses.

I am really happy with the quality; a Hy6 seems to be really nice too, but it would force me to buy a different back. And that would hurt my wallet too much...
The lenses are just lovely.

Contax 645 + P21

Hy6 + Sinar 54LV
40mm Schneider
80 mm Schneider
110 mm Zeiss
150mm Zeiss

I nearly allways only bring 40 and 110 mm and really like those 2 lenses.


For fast moving subjects and low light things: Nikon d3x

for light/small package M8

Production future.

Hy 6 and Contax 645 on e75 LV back for MF. Nikon D3 and Leica DMR for 35mm.

There are four of us at our studio.

1) Rolleiflex 6008 AF +db20 PhaseOne
Rolleiflex 6008 AF + eMotion 75

2) Contax 645 + Leaf 65
Mamiya RZ (film), waiting patiently for a Contax adapter from Jordan Miller for 5 month (Digital Technology Group, Inc)

3) Hasselblad H1 + p25

4) Sinar-M + Sinarback 54H + Sinarp2 converted to p3 specs
Rolleiflex Hy6 + eMotion 54LV
Alpa TC, SW, SWA

I am waiting for a high ISO back or MFD camera, probably the Sinar eSprit 65LV.

Yevgeny
Moscow,
Russia