Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: JonathanBenoit on September 08, 2010, 11:19:44 am
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http://www.phaseone.com/en/Testimonials/Acromatic-plus.aspx (http://www.phaseone.com/en/Testimonials/Acromatic-plus.aspx)
Any thoughts?
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id like to know too....
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Played with one for a week last year.
Utterly fantastic noise structure (since there is no bayer pattern the noise is very "random" and "grainlike" rather than the kind of clumpy digital-feeling noise you see from most dSLRs) and really really great per-pixel sharpness. Tad more dynamic range than a typical P45+.
Very interesting options provided by the wide spectral response, but also a challenge since you'll need to filter out whatever spectrum you don't want. Unfiltered the response includes too wide a spectrum for sharp images using most lenses (since IR and UV light don't filter at the same point as visible light).
Overall very cool that it's available.
Disclosure: we are a dealer.
Doug Peterson (e-mail Me) ("[email protected]")
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Last year when the back was reviewed by LL the price was $41,990:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/achromatic.shtml
Is this still the case?
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Last year when the back was reviewed by LL the price was $41,990:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/achromatic.shtml
Is this still the case?
Indeed. Of course you could think of it like Apple introduced the iPhone: three cameras in one: UV, IR, and Visible! From that point of view it's only $14k per camera :)
Megavision and others have made or make broad-spectrum monochromatic backs which are not too appealing for fine-art or commercial photography (they are geared largely for the scientific market). From the major players (Phase/Hassy/Leaf/Sinar) I know of no other similar product. So I suspect the price will remain where it is for quite some time.
Of course that is list price and not street price - but yes it is (and likely always will be) significantly more expensive than say a P45+.
[font="Arial"]Doug Peterson (e-mail Me) ("[email protected]")
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Head of Technical Services, Capture Integration
Phase One, Leaf, Cambo, Canon, Apple, Profoto, Eizo & More
National: 877.217.9870 | Cell: 740.707.2183
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Buy Capture One at 10% off (http://"http://www.captureintegration.com/phase-one/buy-capture-one/")
Personal Work (http://"http://www.doug-peterson.com/")
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Played with one for a week last year.
Utterly fantastic noise structure (since there is no bayer pattern the noise is very "random" and "grainlike" rather than the kind of clumpy digital-feeling noise you see from most dSLRs) and really really great per-pixel sharpness. Tad more dynamic range than a typical P45+.
Very interesting options provided by the wide spectral response, but also a challenge since you'll need to filter out whatever spectrum you don't want. Unfiltered the response includes too wide a spectrum for sharp images using most lenses (since IR and UV light don't filter at the same point as visible light).
Overall very cool that it's available.
Disclosure: we are a dealer.
Doug Peterson (e-mail Me) ("[email protected]")
__________________
Head of Technical Services, Capture Integration
Phase One, Leaf, Cambo, Canon, Apple, Profoto, Eizo & More
National: 877.217.9870 | Cell: 740.707.2183
Newsletter: Read Latest or Sign Up (http://"http://www.captureintegration.com/our-company/newsletters/")
RSS Feed: Subscribe (http://"http://www.captureintegration.com/2008/08/11/rss-feeds/")
Buy Capture One at 10% off (http://"http://www.captureintegration.com/phase-one/buy-capture-one/")
Personal Work (http://"http://www.doug-peterson.com/")
I was with Doug when we had a chance to work with it. Very cool product