AKElstudio
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Hope this will be interesting for the community:
Last week I have a chance to play with top of the Leaf’s line of digital backs, Leaf Aptus-II 12, 80-megapixel digital back mounted on Phase One 645DF camera. Many thanks to Steve Hendrix from Capture Integration for bringing all this beauty to the studio.
As usual, I it was interesting for me to see how camera + back will be performing in a studio, in the controlled light condition. I shoot particularly product, jewelry and food, and ability to recover shadows and highlights is very important to me, along with resolution and IQ (image quality).
Many times I am dealing with subjects contained high glossy pieces and dark areas where it is hard to direct the light. Therefore, a high dynamic range does really help in post-production.
The sensor:
test composition:
100% crops from the above:
Highlights very well handled:
Just for a reference, Hasselblad H4D-50 with 120mm Macro, the same subject:
The rest of the results (shadow and highlight recovery in particular) is on the blog:
http://www.akelstudio.com/blog/leaf...-back-review-it-is-not-only-pixels-that-count
I do not want to spoil mouse over functionality by re-posting everything here. It is very cool to see the difference by hovering the image.
Alex
Last week I have a chance to play with top of the Leaf’s line of digital backs, Leaf Aptus-II 12, 80-megapixel digital back mounted on Phase One 645DF camera. Many thanks to Steve Hendrix from Capture Integration for bringing all this beauty to the studio.
As usual, I it was interesting for me to see how camera + back will be performing in a studio, in the controlled light condition. I shoot particularly product, jewelry and food, and ability to recover shadows and highlights is very important to me, along with resolution and IQ (image quality).
Many times I am dealing with subjects contained high glossy pieces and dark areas where it is hard to direct the light. Therefore, a high dynamic range does really help in post-production.
The sensor:
test composition:
100% crops from the above:
Highlights very well handled:
Just for a reference, Hasselblad H4D-50 with 120mm Macro, the same subject:
The rest of the results (shadow and highlight recovery in particular) is on the blog:
http://www.akelstudio.com/blog/leaf...-back-review-it-is-not-only-pixels-that-count
I do not want to spoil mouse over functionality by re-posting everything here. It is very cool to see the difference by hovering the image.
Alex
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