As with any camera, the more care you put into using it, the more you get out of it. This was shot with Phase One's IQ180 and 120mm macro lens at 1/125 sec. A close-up of a flower shot with the Phase One IQ180 digital back and 645DF camera body with the Phase One/Mamiya 120mm Macro f/4.0D lens. Plenty of professionals cut their teeth on SLRs and stay there. I had the same problem, discovering flecks of dust I wouldn't have worried about before. That's a huge improvement over the unintuitive controls of the P65+. (That means that there are 65,536 gradations between the maximum and minimum brightness each sensor pixel can capture. I agree to receive inspirational, educational and promotional content and invitations from and about Phase One A/S via email using the information I provide in this form in accordance with the (Tilt-shift lenses can be oriented at unusual angles and alignments compared with ordinary camera lenses, which lets photographers dramatically alter the focusing depth of field and correct perspective issues such as converging parallel lines of a building photographed from street level.) For comparison, higher-end SLRs offer 14 bits, which is pretty good, and JPEG can handle only a pathetic 8 bits, which is why you have to shoot with raw image formats to take full advantage of these cameras.) They're leaf-shutter designs, which means they have a built-in shutter that permits higher shutter speeds than the camera body itself, which is nice for fashion photographers shooting moving models. The area in the green rectangle is shown at 100 percent zoom below. The IQ180's low noise and high color is best when set to its impressively low ISO 35, but it worked well at ISO 100 and 200, too. I also spent a lot of time with Phase One's $3,390 120mm macro lens. It is--if you take care before snapping the shot.
Explore the iXH.Solutions and components for mapping, surveying, inspection and much more. (Click to enlarge.) The 16-bit-per-channel data likely helps here. An integrated design is convenient--that's the approach top rivals Hasselblad and Pentax have taken--but it also means some extra expense for those who want to upgrade sensors more often than camera bodies, and it means the sensor back can be used with It wolfed down impressive amounts of detail at close range. Phase One is a Danish company specializing in high-end digital photography equipment and software. Remember when the HD video industry realized the higher-resolution TV cameras meant they had to apply makeup more carefully? It reminded me of a high-performance sports car: capable of amazing achievements, but rough around the edges. Gone is much of the hurry, because you can't just whip the camera out and snap that candid portrait that lasts only a fleeting moment. A close-up of a strawberry shot with the Phase One IQ180 digital back and 645DF camera body with the Phase One/Mamiya 120mm Macro f/4.0D lens. I've included a couple of images in this story that you can zoom into, but this iris photo below shows the uncropped frame above and, below, a 100-percent zoom of the area marked with a green rectangle. (Click to enlarge.) But the IQ180's spacious chip permits pixels to be relatively large, which satisfies professionals' needs for high resolution without introducing too much in noise. You won't get the cupholders and ergonomic refinements of a mainstream sedan, but you're buying the machine for its performance. Phase One has meticulously developed each IQ Digital Back series to be a flexible extension of your creative workflow. It's darned impressive, too.