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>>248289
if you haven't shot medium format, you should try it. The only problem with shooting medium format is that the amount of light necessary is preposterous - hence why studio lights are good in order to bring your exposure time down. Since a lot of the time you are shooting low ISO(100 or so) with decent depth of field and you are using models and the like, you want to keep your exposure time down.
If, on the other hand, you are shooting stuff with fast film, or you don't have elaborate set pieces/designs, or you plan on photoshopping a lot of the image, then yeah you just need a flash and a lightmeter. Even though lightmeters for medium format are stupidly inaccurate, which is where the test shots on polaroid film come in handy. Those same test shots are nice to give to the models, who generally like to keep them.
Bear in mind that a decent mamiya rig(rz67 Pro II) or a hasselblad system is going to run you around 1K or so, which is still less than just the camera body for a D300.
Digital medium format is extremely expensive(google the leaf aptus, mamiya Z, etc), and the reasons why are pretty simple so I won't get into them. Just read the articles.
>>248334
is correct. If you ever shoot fashion/design and do actual industry work, you WILL have to shoot medium format, and most likely will have to learn to shoot film again. Have fun!
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