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Not including digital backs, the first digital cameras were of this type, with DSLRs coming later. The sensor used in these types of cameras tends to be smaller than their SLR counterparts.

At the same time, advertising studios are incredibly expensive beasts to mantain: rent a large basement floor, stuff it wih huge pro-level flashes and cameras and Apple Mac$$$, get that digital back that costs like a new car and that does not work ...

David shoots with a Contax 645 medium format camera with a Phase One P30 Plus digital back and owns the whole range of Contax lenses, although 80mm and 140mm are the ones he generally uses.

Phase One, a longtime maker of digital backs for medium format cameras and the software that drives them came out with Capture One in 2003 as a high-end solution for raw conversion and augmented it with their "LE" Edition in 2004.

*) I am happily ignoring the fact that there were digital backs to medium format cameras available. These first digital cameras would cost the same as a medium-class sports car, and have nothing to do in this node about compact cameras. So there :) ...

I used a medium-format camera with a 22-megapixel digital back at ISO 50, '/16 and 1"125 sec. The lens focal length was 250mm.
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The just-announced Arca-Swiss RL3d is a large-format technical camera that can accomodate digital backs, film backs up to 4x5, and a wide variety of viewers, hoods, bellows and other accessories. Read more ...

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These often have interchangeable backs so film can be swapped mid-roll and Polaroid or a digital back can be used to instantly proof a composition or exposure.

Modern professional medium format system cameras have a mount which must be used to attach either a rollfilm holder or a digital back.
Large format camera systems may allow exchange of bellows and camera back to be applicable for different formats.

He shot a standard business portrait using a telephoto lens on his Hasselblad H1 with Leaf Aptus 75 digital back tethered to a laptop.

Now studios use Canon or Nikon DSLR's for the quick and easy table shots or larger format cameras like the Mamiya, Contax 645's or Hasselblad with digital backs.

It broke down price barriers and announced the fact that the traditional camera manufacturers were serious about producing their own digital SLR's. No longer tied to Kodak's digital back Nikon's designers produced a serious camera in a small(er), ...

A Scanback is a professional back for large format studio photography. The digital back scans directly onto a computer and many are capable of creating files of 300 - 500MB.

For land work, my choice is a 22-megapixel (soon to be 39-megapixel) digital back on a Hasselblad H2 and for underwater, Canon EOS-1DsMKII bodies at 16.7 megapixels.

For most of the DSLR's currently on the market the sensor size comparison is relative to 35mm format (24X36mm film area). I am not going to work with or discuss digital backs for medium and large format although the same image sensor size and lens ...

Large-format cameras have perspective and depth of field controls that are unable on 35mm (or equivalent) SLR cameras. Large-format digital backs are available for large-format digital cameras and they provide all the positive attributes of ...

However, you will no longer have to sort through stacks of construction paper just to find those stickers you misplaced; it's all at your fingertips. And as a bonus, you'll have a digital backup to share your creation once you print it out.

The one exception to this was the DCS 200 back for the Nikon 8008s/F-801s camera, which was a replaceable digital back with a huge digital computer on the bottom. That one sort of worked but wasn't exactly a bestseller.

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