Below are some mates
1) Matt has several galleries right in the high end in the city centre of Sydney, he prints on rag water colour paper metals canvas etc to lots of sizes, stunning city, sea, landscapes, wild life, he used MF for a long while until the D850 came out, he feels the D850 with just a 24-70 2.8 is just so so close to MF its his go to setup, personally i have to agree with him, remember 90% of what you get comes from the person behind the eye piece.
https://mattpearson.com.au/pages/artist
Go to Shop link and check out some images, on the web there low res files of course, but in his gallery the images are stunning
https://mattpearson.com.au/pages/prints-frames#
Again his go to camera and lens is D850 with a 24-70 2.8 or 70-200 2.8, he uses it more than MF purely based on results meeting his needs fully and the little difference in results.
I have a couple of other mates that do nature with some wild life and a lot of out back land and air scape works, they use the D850 24-70 2.8, and for video they use a Z9, with the Z9 they are pulling 30mb stills to die for, how, is beyond me, they sold of all their MF gear.
Now that's not saying anything bad about MF as its absolutely brilliant, but remember these mates are making documentaries, photos above all a full time professional living, the gear they use are simply tools, what makes the end result is how they use these tools combined with artistic creativeness.
How they process or present the work be it on rag paper or metal etc etc makes a profound difference.
2) Here is Mieke, she uses a D800 D810 with a 100mm F2 manual focus Ziess macro set at infinity and she photographs almost everything and doesn't need to worry about focus as every thing is in focus all the time. Her other lens is a 24-70 2.8. Check out her aerials or lake air SA. She has international following and awards.
https://alpinelight.com.au/store/
She has recently
got a Z7 and a Z50mm 1.2, she likes it very much, but her go to lens for Arial landscapes and so much other work is the Ziess as the 100mm F2 macro
a) because of the focal range is preferred,
b) above all the fact she can set it at infinity making everything in focus when she is shooting out of a plane. I have the same lens and do even some sports action with it as well as para gliders hand held on my D3X with incredible detail and contrast.
We enjoy having her come along to our club each year to do presentations.
About Mieke she is a specialist landscape and aerial photographer based in the township of Bright in Victoria. There is nothing more she enjoys than photographing vast, wild and beautiful natural places either from the ground or in a more abstract form from helicopters and light planes.
Mieke was the first Australian and first female to win the prestigious Epson International Pano Awards in 2019 with three of her abstract aerials, and that same year, she was also named Victorian Landscape Photographer of the Year. Mieke is a Grand Master with the Australian Photographic Society (APS), and last year, she received her Master with Distinction from the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP). Mieke was also named 2021 NZIPP International Photographer of the Year and 2022 NZIPP Australian Landscape (in-camera) Photographer of the Year.
Mieke's most exciting achievement to date is being awarded the Maitre de la Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (MFIAP) Distinction with FIAP (the International Federation of Art Photography).
You see for me its not always about the gear, i see so often photographers with simple older gear getting far better outcomes than some people with the latest on point expensive exotic equipment.
I never judge a camera or lens from the back LCD screen.
How to make almost all lenses and camera's seem alike in image results, the secret is............................ LIGHT
Hope this helps.
Only an opinion
