Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Here is the new camera, the XF 100MP, "The Ultimate Camera System"!
Phase One XF 100 MP
It is of course normal that fast food joints offer mega-burgers with 2 or more servings of hamburger meat plied up with layers of bun and fixings - not that anyone needs to eat that much, but it looks impressive and folk go for the size!
With digital cameras, one can do good art with anything from a cell phone, point and shoot to a pro level Sony, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic, Canon or Nikon Camera. Very few capable wedding photographers are limited by the resolution of the camera in delivering wonderful albums!
There is however, a market for high resolution MF photography and that's where Phase One comes in, this time with a Phase One designated, Sony manufactured CMOS chip claiming 16 BIOT processing and 15 stops of dynamic range. Images offered by Phase One can be downloaded and will knock your socks off.
The questions is who is this for? I imagine that the FBI and homeland might like it on a platform for sequentially photographing the stands in stadia for automatic facial recognition and the location of felons and terrorists!
Landscape photographers might love this, but, there is still 8x10 film around!
Advertising over expense watches and diamond necklaces would lap up this "advance" and they do seem to have a lavish approach to printing their material as if they were working for the Louvre!
Well for my work, I'd appreciate the gift from anyone!
I still plan, in the meanwhile, to concentrate on better planning and care with just with a Sony 7R or its new sibling, the 7RII at 50 MP.
Still, I imagine that the files from the new Phase One camera will show obvious superiority in very large prints examined up very close. In my brief tests with a 80 MP Phase One CCD Dalsa chip camera, I saw no practical killer advantage over the Sony A7R. I could detect more resolution in hair, but from a distance, they look closely similar.
No doubt, work can approach the quality of the direct exposure of Cibachrome but not match it yet. Like as not, an 8x10 sheet of film would deliver a more impressively detailed image....albeit much, much more slowly!
This has an advantage for fashion photographers with the focal plane shutter of 1/1600 sec if one has a matching flash synchronized at that speed to overwhelm daylight!
Still, $49,000 is a hell of a lot of money!
It's good though that Sony is doing this, as it means more strength to their sensor division and further upgrade to their alpha series of cameras....but not with this chip. But, no doubt, the other MF camera MFRs will have access to this new chip, unless, of course this is a proprietary design of Phase One! Let's see what Pentax has to say about this!
Asher
Phase One XF 100 MP
It is of course normal that fast food joints offer mega-burgers with 2 or more servings of hamburger meat plied up with layers of bun and fixings - not that anyone needs to eat that much, but it looks impressive and folk go for the size!
With digital cameras, one can do good art with anything from a cell phone, point and shoot to a pro level Sony, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic, Canon or Nikon Camera. Very few capable wedding photographers are limited by the resolution of the camera in delivering wonderful albums!
There is however, a market for high resolution MF photography and that's where Phase One comes in, this time with a Phase One designated, Sony manufactured CMOS chip claiming 16 BIOT processing and 15 stops of dynamic range. Images offered by Phase One can be downloaded and will knock your socks off.
The questions is who is this for? I imagine that the FBI and homeland might like it on a platform for sequentially photographing the stands in stadia for automatic facial recognition and the location of felons and terrorists!
Landscape photographers might love this, but, there is still 8x10 film around!
Advertising over expense watches and diamond necklaces would lap up this "advance" and they do seem to have a lavish approach to printing their material as if they were working for the Louvre!
Well for my work, I'd appreciate the gift from anyone!
I still plan, in the meanwhile, to concentrate on better planning and care with just with a Sony 7R or its new sibling, the 7RII at 50 MP.
Still, I imagine that the files from the new Phase One camera will show obvious superiority in very large prints examined up very close. In my brief tests with a 80 MP Phase One CCD Dalsa chip camera, I saw no practical killer advantage over the Sony A7R. I could detect more resolution in hair, but from a distance, they look closely similar.
No doubt, work can approach the quality of the direct exposure of Cibachrome but not match it yet. Like as not, an 8x10 sheet of film would deliver a more impressively detailed image....albeit much, much more slowly!
This has an advantage for fashion photographers with the focal plane shutter of 1/1600 sec if one has a matching flash synchronized at that speed to overwhelm daylight!
Still, $49,000 is a hell of a lot of money!
It's good though that Sony is doing this, as it means more strength to their sensor division and further upgrade to their alpha series of cameras....but not with this chip. But, no doubt, the other MF camera MFRs will have access to this new chip, unless, of course this is a proprietary design of Phase One! Let's see what Pentax has to say about this!
Asher