2007.04.20: New Camera

The Rollei 6008 AF, Schneider AF Xenotar HFT PQS 80/2.8 and Phase One P20 back arrived Thursday evening (finally). Leanna and I have a more serious, creative shoot planned that we're shooting in a few hours from the time I'm posting this entry. The Rollei 6000 series (and future Sinar Hy6 and Leaf AFi cameras) use Zeiss and Schneider lenses, of which more will be re-released as autofocus lenses with digital-specific modifications which I am guessing will allow the cameras to transfer more EXIF data to the digital back. The lenses all have leaf shutters and most of these shutters go up to 1/1000s, the fastest of any production leaf shutter I am aware of. These shutters give the photographer an added two stops of ambient light control over any dSLR I am aware of (with the exception of the Nikon D70, which can only be set down to ISO 200). The digital back outputs true 16bits of colour information, produces square frames, and has a nominal ISO of 50. In comparison to the D2X, this system now gives me an additional three stops of ambient light control thus giving me more flexibility to work outdoors with strobes.

Heheh. =)

Jonathan was going to climb into an illuminated billboard box at first but I couldn't get a good angle on it. He settled for climbing between two random buildings instead.