Phase One Announces 60.5mp Digital Back/System

[giga Veteran]

http://www.phaseone.com/Content/p1digitalb...troduction.aspx

The Phase One P 65+ is the first digital back and camera system to take advantage of the new Sensor+ design and is the world’s first full-frame capture system based on actual 645 film format. The P 65+ provides the largest live digital capture area available so far with coverage of 53.9mm x 40.4mm – enabling full viewfinder coverage thus no need for lens magnification. “What you see is what you get.”

Sensor resolution is 60.5 Megapixel with 8984 x 6732 active pixels achieving 180 MB, 8 bit RGB files.

P 65+ digital back and the P 65+ camera system based on Sensor+ CCD technology co-developed with DALSA Semiconductor. The chip platform offers the most demanding photographers upgradeable CCD functions, ensuring a longer lifespan for their digital back investments. Improvements and upgrades based on Sensor+ technology have been designed to enable:

• Scaleable pixel and file size
  
• Higher sensitivity & dynamic range
  
• Increased flexibility for operation and capture
  
• Improved capture rates
  

More technical details and demonstrations of Sensor+ technology will be available at the Photokina trade show in September 2008. Camera shipments with P 65+ digital back are expected to begin in Q4, 2008.

The P65+ digital back starts at $39,900; the P65+ camera system starts at $41,990.

[crazzy88ss]

NOOB QUESTION!

What exactly IS a "digital back"? Does it go on the back of a film camera?

[sanctified Veteran]

So this would fit in any 645 Mamiya or medium format compatible camera?

[Draconian Guppy]

NOOB QUESTION!

What exactly IS a "digital back"? Does it go on the back of a film camera?

+1 :s

[sanctified Veteran]

+1 :s

Its a device that can back up digitally any picture taken with a medium format camera.

[giga Veteran]

So this would fit in any 645 Mamiya or medium format compatible camera?

Yep.

edit: Except the H3D series from Hasselblad which no longer supports third party backs.

Edited July 16, 2008 by giga

[Prince Charming]

NOOB QUESTION!

What exactly IS a "digital back"? Does it go on the back of a film camera?

It is literally that - a back that goes on the camera with a digital sensor. One of the things about medium format is the versatility and how stuff can be switched out. The film (or digital) back is seperate from the body that houses the mirror/viewfinder, and the lens is seperate. When DSLRs came about it pretty much required a camera built with the sensor in the body, with medium format, you bung a digital sensor on the back (I know, there are a couple of SLRs with digital backs, Lecia did one I believe).

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

Thanks for the explanation, I had exactly the same question as fellow members above.