I spent the past couple days at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon testing/evaluating a Cambo RS 1000 along with a P45+. The time spent was for me to see if I liked the system, could adapt to a new workflow, and more importantly capture images that would be of higher resolution and just all around better than what I've been using before (Phase 645, P30+ mainly with a Mamiya 28mm lens). Went to the North Rim in hopes of catching decent fall colors; spending the time in learning the technical aspects of shooting with a technical camera. We found that we were about a week to ten days early for the burst of colors and the sky was just plain crappy with no clouds in sight; here are samples from the past 3 days.
47mm; 10mm fall and 10mm shift either direction. I was standing right off the road shooting down into the path. f/11 @1/15 ISO 50.
two shots taken with Cambo RS 1000, P45+ and 47mm lens. ISO 50, Custom WB, f/11 @ 1/60 and 10mm shift left and right. Opened in CS3 Bridge, merged using bridge and PP in CS3.
North Rim view - f/11 @ 1/500 with 10mm fall
These samples just don't do justice to the images taken then again it's hard to really tell the quality of any image in a small JPEG.
My conclusion is that this system is very good to great; in fact I'm waiting to hear back from Chris at Capture Integration has to an order status. Once the order is placed I'll be selling my 28mm lens so stay tuned!
Once again I want to thank Dave and Chris at
Capture Integration for allowing me the opportunity to have the equipment for the test.
don
