His hourly rate includes assistant and PRO rentals. He has two ways to get to medium format, PRO rentals and his bogus upsizing that makes his 11 MP camera into a 22 MP camera.
I collectively apologize for not reading beyond Page 1 of this thread sooner, and I have to admit that regardless of how truthful the photographer in question is, I don't think he necessarily deserves a public flogging here at FM.com, behind his back. I think we've seen enough of this thread for the time being.