On DPR, all medium format gear was covered solely in the Medium Format Talk forum. I notice here that a Fuji Medium Format forum is included. Perhaps that was a mistake.
Which forum will Fuji GFX users use here?
March 28, 2023
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For what it's worth, I'm a Hasselblad user but liked reading the Fuji specific and other brand threads on DPR. There was always something to learn in them and besides both systems share the same sensor technology. I liked that they were together.
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Medium Format Talk. For sure I'll be here.
Fuji Medium Format Talk, should be deleted. I can understand why it's there - though then there also needs to be a Hasselblad forum... and Phase One and Pentax 645D/Z, but on the whole it does make sense just to keep us Medium-Formatters together.
Maybe you should suggest this in the Feedback section? - nip the diversion in the bud.
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Good advice . . . Now I just have to find the feedback section.
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Hi,
I greatly prefer a brand agnostic MF forum. Heck, to date, I've had Mamiya, Contax and now Pentax. And probably a Fuji before long. But I'll hang my P645 and P67 lenses on it. And likely other brands to boot. And in an all-in-one MF forum it's easier to follow all of them. Heck, even the small format lenses that work well.
Otherwise, I'll have to run all over the MF forums map and, with specific forums, folks tend to not be understanding of anyone who's go about mixing stuff up. ;)
Stan
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Let people choose 😎
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I'm for a brand-agnostic MF fourm
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I'm for a non-denominational, brand agnostic Medium Format forum.
I also question that this Medium Format forum is under a "Miscellaneous" category. Medium format is hardly miscellaneous. Could it be moved into a more "primary" position?
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Given the limited amount of Medium format cameras in production, I think one lump category is fine.
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If you click on “Medium Format Talk” it is brand agnostic because it contains everything.
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I think a brand agnostic forum is important in a tiny digital segment, but also so technical cameras like the Cambo Actus can be discussed with any “sensor” stuck on the back.
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I am for a brand-agnostic forum.
The brand-agnostic forum worked fine on DPR. It was one of the forums with the highest information-to-noise ratio.
I am unhappy with the category structure "improvements" on DPrevived. -
Agree 100%. I’m also a visitor and practitioner of adapted lenses, a serious subject and endeavour which deserves to not to be miscellaneous!
At DPR the forum categories were larger, all brands and gear lumped into ‘Photo Equipment’. Here I think some finer granularity is ok. Maybe Medium Format and Adapted Lenses etc should be in a ‘Specialist’ category?
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So am I
Jpierre
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+1 for brand-agnostic forum.
Dividing up into these silly "Sony Talk", "Fuji Talk", "Nikon Talk", etc. forums just promotes tribalism. Let's not do that for medium format. It was such a great forum on DPReview because it brought everyone together who shared an interest in medium format (including film) photography.
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Agree.
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Unfortunately in your logic, we must also abolish the division of forums by type of format
Let's integrate together, MF, FF, APS-C, APS-H, micro 4/3, N 1, etc...
And let us all talk in joy and gladness! -
I prefer the brand-agnostic forum for Medium Format and recommend deleting the brand-specific Fuji Medium Format board because the medium format crowd is small and having two boards dilutes the conversation.
(I also prefer the brand specific forums for Nikon, Canon, Sony, etc.--these serve different kinds of questions and discussions and have more users).
