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Very apt to choose to test phone cameras with cat photos. Some selfies with excessive skin blurring and enlarged eyes would also be appreciated.

Most will go to rental houses and larger studios. A few will go to commercial photographers, particularly architectural who value the corrections. A few successful landscapers too. I doubt many...

Just google "Pack Shots" and you will find hundreds of studios already doing this. They usually have a sliding scale of pricing and run a production-line system.

Congratulations! We have a winner in the race to the bottom.

To be honest, pack shot people have been doing this for decades. I can't quite see the point in the robot unless they have more robots...

@Gannon That's interesting, so its not increasing resolution but averaging out noise and presumably bracketing to increase dynamic range and then outputting a single raw file?

"a first for medium-format cameras" umm nope. I think that went to the Hasselblad H3D-39MS over a decade ago.

Sadly that UK price is a typo. It is £5400 in the Hasselblad store not £4500!

Wait a minute. Operating profit was $70 billion more than operating income? I need to hire their accountants!

I'm going to have to try an ELB 1200 out. Currently using the old Ranger RX Speed with A heads. I heard that HSS will loose you two stops of light but I suppose if you can raise shutter speed by...

@marc petzold Ricoh is a $700BN company (by market capitalization) and bigger than Nikon so not exactly cottage industry. Cameras take up a small piece of their business but that is by choice and...

With the GFX 100 likely to be considered as a studio/commercial camera it seems important to look at sync speed and the options available such as HSS or adapted leaf shutter lenses. HSS isn't an...

@IdM Unfortunately the HC adapter doesn't allow AF. Strange as Fuji make those lenses. My HC lenses focus even faster adapted to my Leica S than they did on my Hassy so they've no excuse. I'm...

Chatting to a Hasselblad rep a few weeks back, he said that a new version of the X1D 50 was on the way as well as a new camera with the 100MP sensor. He was very clear that the 100 wasn't going to...

@IdM photography - nearly, but not with a 1/125th sync speed.

It would be nice to see this camera tested in a commercial environment, perhaps with aditional views by some professionals in different areas (eg product and fashion photographers). There has been...

HSS is a poor alternative to a fast sync speed. The strobing means a cut in flash power output and slow shooting.

You said that it is an all-round camera but didn't mention the slow sync speed. As a commercial shooter it is hard to consider a camera with no native (or adapted with AF) leaf shutter lenses to...

It's lucky the Chinese haven't found out about Youtube yet.

It's a new system. They could launch a high end, high resolution camera but then everyone would complain that there are no native lenses for it. Canon have bult their reputation on the lenses...

Now they just need to hide the follower count too and they might even get rid of some of the spammers/influenzas.