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HISTORY LESSON: A box? Really? Kodak couldn't keep Fotomat from using their color yellow and font in court. Well, no love lost here in Massachusetts where Polaroid did a scale model Enron with their retirees; screwed them and the local economies due to their own greed and hubris. Polaroid was at one time in a better place during the late '80s and early '90s to make the digital transition. Instead the oligarchical corporate frame work left in place by Ed Land saw it differently. All the brilliant engineers, physicists, chemists and photo scientists left in droves like rats from a sinking ship. Polaroids' answer was to close up shop and leave vested employees with nothing. Hope the group that owns their licensed name loses this case.
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I actually know what you're talking about which really shows my age.

Maybe the Star Wars edition will have an anti gravity feature built in as well -perhaps I read too much science fiction.

pHysics and metallurgical chemistry take a holiday . Yes the elastic material (rubber bands) inside of the bungees doe does increase the weight endured over a longer period of time through the expansion and contraction cycle but the net weight is the same. mOst professionals prefer to have the equipment they're carrying close to their bodies and not have the weight load shifting or bouncing about; weather it be a heavy camera or large weapon.

Two hundred and fifty thousand miles away, two thirty-nine year old men, were in a fourteen by twenty foot spacecraft, covered in gold plastic, called the LEM. With the help of a sixty-pound computer that had seventy-four kilobytes of total memory they were making their descent to the lunar surface, upside down, at about twenty-five feet per second.
With FILM cameras.

I was hoping it was; checked the publish date and it wasn't April 1st. Maybe it's one of those, "joke-a-day" columns.

My computer just dope slapped me for taking time out of my life and wasting electricity for reading such nonsense. I guess it works.

If this camera were weather proof it would be everything. How much do you suppose it would add to the cost?

A lot of Europe is that way; your told (on tours) that the process is equally if not more important than the product.

The all black finish would indicate at a mil-spec theme. I'm sure a branch of the military could order enough of them w/o any white lettering as well. I wonder how/if it is set up to be remotely controlled by a one pilot or if I dare say it, a drone aircraft? Otherwise information I have found on the black bird's K38 camera have been spotty at best. Aerial Ektachrome anyone?

Yeah I guess that a 9-inch roll film camera with a focal plane shutter able to depict objects less than a foot in diameter at altitudes over 80,000 feet and able to withstand a 500 degree temperature range...did I mention the polished beryllium mirror?
Pretty tame stuff I guess. I'd write more but the folks from the Government are at my door at the moment.

Don't fret over being spied on; people using this camera will be using it to record images of interesting things from above, not monitoring quacks.

Koreans couldn't possibly make a decent or innovative optical product. Yes, Only serious German companies make decent glass; that must be why all serious professionals are shooting with cameras made there. Right? Comments here are so arrogant they border on being racist. Seriously!

I seem to remember that Leica had a sensor built just for their needs; that is, one that somehow angled the outer chip pixels towards the sensor's center? I know that both CCD's and CMOS's do best with more collimated light. Leica's and their ilk were made in the days of film; silver halide crystals don't particularly care at which angle the photons come from.

I love my 3 year old WG3. I've taken it On every a type of adventure from sailing to snow shoeing and It's truly a remarkable camera.
I would trade off a camera that was slightly bigger for one with a larger sensor and RAW capability. And it certainly looks better than Canon and Fuji's tub toys.
People have told me it resembles a carbon fiber dog bone; I'm good with that.
Minor gripe is that the buttons are too small to,operate with gloved hands. Also, invest in a good float strap because it sinks like a rock.

If it's as reliable and robust as my 1Ds' it will find a place in my studio. It looks like a serious camera for skilled professionals.

More snarky remarks from silly people.

Old trusty, worn 6x7 with it's wooden handle sits atop my shelf in my studio along side other relics. Sometimes I catch it leering and snarling at my digital equipment like Cerberus.

That would be nice. Why not a 1DX with a 17mm and 24mm TS lens? Or an Alpa (mortgages available)? http://www.dpreview.com/articles/2458339852/phase-one-and-alpa-release-official-details-and-pricing-of-a-series-medium-format-cameras

Like it. Looks like a professional camera which means that if it doesn't play video games the whiners will be here in droves. The styling is a bit reminiscent of the 6x7 (look it up). It will be interesting to see how it compares to the new Canon 5Ds which is already in production.