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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: felix5616 on February 27, 2019, 02:47:16 pm

Title: Medium Format CMOS Digital Back for Cambo Tech Camera
Post by: felix5616 on February 27, 2019, 02:47:16 pm

Which CMOS medium format back on a Cambo Tech Camera is the most forging when it comes to lens selection and stitching?

Title: Re: Medium Format CMOS Digital Back for Cambo Tech Camera
Post by: Doug Peterson on February 27, 2019, 03:51:29 pm

The Phase One IQ4 150mp is the best back for a tech camera (https://phaseoneiq4.com/11-reasons-tech-camera-users-will-love-the-iq4/). It's hugely more forgiving than the 50mp and 100mp CMOS backs and is, in fact, more forgiving than any other modern back.

Well, if we're being very pedantic the IQ4 150mp Achromatic is even better; you can't have even slight color cast in a monochromatic back :).

Title: Re: Medium Format CMOS Digital Back for Cambo Tech Camera
Post by: felix5616 on February 27, 2019, 03:58:30 pm

Thanks but price for me must be taken into account, so keeping that in mind(i apologize for not being clearer)what are my options?

Title: Re: Medium Format CMOS Digital Back for Cambo Tech Camera
Post by: Doug Peterson on February 27, 2019, 04:26:53 pm

Quote from: felix5616 on February 27, 2019, 03:58:30 pm

Thanks but price for me must be taken into account, so keeping that in mind(i apologize for not being clearer)what are my options?

The desirability on a tech camera use track pretty closely with their price. In descending order:
IQ4 150mp
IQ3 100mp Trichromatic
IQ3 100mp
IQ3 50mp, IQ2 50mp, and IQ1 50mp

Notably the IQ3 100mp and above feature an electronic shutter (ES) (https://www.dtcommercialphoto.com/phase-ones-electronic-shutter-in-detail/) which.