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Well-known landscape photographer Alain Briot has finally come out of the closet – he has announced that he now shoots with a 1Ds Mark II!

Until recently, Alain has mainly been shooting with a 4×5 view camera, with smaller 645 cameras for when he needed portability. The large negatives give him fantastic enlargement opportunity up to 40×50 inches, but for smaller sizes he finds that the 1Ds Mark II holds detail almost as well, and is much more convenient to work with. He particularly loves the immediacy of digital – being able to come home from a shoot and start reviewing and working with the images straight away, rather than waiting a week or two for film to be processed and scanned.

The article has some nice comparison images, as well as brief thoughts on other digital issues such as battery life, camera weight, handling, sensor dust, focusing screen, lens choice, and color spaces.

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