Here's the deal.
I work in a Art Gallery that's makes catalogues of painting.
All the pictures are taken with a medium format camera, scanned and printed in high quality paper.
We are thinking in going digital, and I know that I can't compare digital with Medium Format, but we are looking for a good camera , that can make good prints of the paintings.
And, we don't have 5,000U$ to spend.
Anyone has any experience with photographing paintings?
The prints are not larger than a A4 paper.
Well, if there's any info missing, let me know.

Jan Hovland

Hi Jan,

I am a little curious why you want to start using digitial. It seems based on your description that you already have a setup that's working well for you. What is it about digital that appeals to you for this task?

Would you also care to elaborate a bit more about the process you currently use with the medium format camera from pre-shot to print? What are the final prints used for?

I imagine you might be surprised with what digital can do for you when in the right hands.

Best of luck to you....I'm a little concerned attempting to recommend anything at this time but I'm confident you'll have plenty of options. What is your budget?

Hey Trevor!

The reason we want to go digital, is that is too expensive to work with medium format, from the film, to developing and finally scanning them. With digital we don't go through all that.
The final prints are used on our catalogs. It's a catalog with pictures of the paintings we have. Usually, the largest we use is an A4 size image, but ocasionally we do it double paged too.
The thing is, the production of this catalog is expensive. We need to lower the cost of this catalog. That's why we are thinking in going digital. But we don't want to loose quality.
About our budget, around U$ 2,000.
I hope this clarifies a lit bit.

Jan Hovland

Thing is, that digital cameras don't give you much quality. I don't know how good your printers are, but usually digital pictures are not the best choice you have.
Plus, for $2,000 it is a lot cheaper to just develop the film than use digital cameras.

Though, if you really want to upgrade your equipment you should invest money on lenses instead.