Hasselblad H6D: a $27,000 monster of a camera

You're $100k productions are cute, and when you're developing your own camera array systems to handle year-over-year 8-figure annual photo and video budgets you aren't big dicking anyone in this conversation so you can put your little dingy away....

Your competition is churning out images at a fraction of the cost in an industry where the margins are cutting daily as client's needs have become more about quantity than top end quality. You're best image is marginally better under intense scrutiny at 200% zoom using P1 anyone else using a camera/lens combination 1/10th the cost. There is no level "all the way to what others are shooting" that's higher than the work I do except people working on NASA's Hubble Telescope or the CIA's thermal imaging drones. You can go to any city in the US and across the world and see my images displayed in front of skylines on 670sqft billboards ---- http://i.imgur.com/aOHuKPZ.jpg. I also do cutting edge CGI work merging photos with 8k digital airplane seat renders and still not seen resolution needs for a P1 or Hassleblad. I've used both many times for kicks but only a couple of times has there been an absolute need for it.

I'd imagine 98%+ of your photos are submitted to client as lower-res jpeg's where the usage is web, app, potentially whatever print media still exists. I'd imagine whoever your clients are now, their sheer number of photo needs has increased 10 fold over the past 10 years with digital and social media and their marketing budgets haven't increased at nearly the same rate. The barrier to entry into the industry has come down dramatically, mostly in part because of the advancements in the standard pro-level DSLR and mirrorless cameras causing a massive influx of "photographer" willing to offer services at far discounted rates. Some say photography is a dying profession, I disagree saying that it's changing rapidly away from photographers like you offering up a relatively small number of final retouched shots for an absurd amount of money and towards people that learn to produce close to the same level of work for basically the same rates, quicker, without ridiculous production costs and producing vastly more images per shoot to please more departments and needs for a large client. I'm in the exact same field as you I just see the future and reality a bit more clearly and it will be people like you phased out of jobs in the end because of your antiquated, dinosaur like mentality on how you view gear vs the trade.

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