2003
Canon 20 D Lightweight DSLR, specialised lenses
A comfortably lightweight digital SLR with lenses of medi-
um imaging quality and reliability. I did not work a lot with
it because the D5 came out on the market shortly after-
wards.
2004
Sinar Handy
4 x 5“ hand-held camera
without bellows extension
This camera with a fixed extension has a cult following, but
I never had any success in using it. The 6 x 12 Horseman
cassette, which I had intended to use together with it has a
different lens to film distance than the Linhof cassette. The
company Schneider Kreuznach has undertaken honou-
rable attempts to solve this problem for its lenses but in the
end it did not work.
2005
Noblex
6 x 12 panorama camera produces
extremely sharp images
,
with
high battery consumption
As can be expected from the Tessar lens, this 6 x 12 panora-
ma camera was impressive due to its fantastic sharpness
even into the corners of the image. Unfortunately, it does
not have a built-in automatic exposure metre, and its bat-
tery consumption is huge. For artistic photography, the for-
mat takes getting used to.
2006
Canon Eos D5
DSLR with full format sensor
In my opinion, this is the queen of all digital SLRs for
landscape photography at the moment – not considering
the Eos 1 Ds Mk 3 with its 21 MP. The prints from this ca-
mera are of a convincing depth and brilliant colour up to a
format of 80 x 120 cm. The camera is not as clunky and
heavy as the 1 Ds Mk II or III and thus much more suitable
as a travel camera in the landscape genre. Also, my impres-
sion is that the technical possibilities of optical and electro-
nic image transfer have been largely exhausted with it.
2007
Canon IXUS 960 IS A magic device
–
pocket-sized Eos
I ammore fascinated by this 12.1 MP camera than by all of
its predecessors I ever owned. It shoots extremely sharp
images which can be printed up to the 50 x 70 cm format. It
can be carried in the pocket, and thanks to the image stabi-
liser, the finest snapshots succeed – also due to the fact that
one is not noticed taking a picture if one does it skilfully.
Unfortunately, there is no shutter or time preselection
mode, nor is there any RAW format. This, on the other
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