Petapixel:
What kind of images does a $63,000 stills camera produce? Here’s a 19-minute video by Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography in which he uses a Phase One XF medium format DSLR to show the bang for your buck that you get when you spend 63 grand on a camera kit.
The Phase One XF is a medium-format camera built with a modular design. That means you can interchange not only the lenses but also the backs of the camera. In this particular setup, the new $50,000 Phase One IQ3 monochrome back is being tested.
This may be blasphemous to professional photographers (or it may be because I’m looking at the images via a web browser) but the composition of the sample images (and the images on the video) is kind of boring and you can’t really see where the $63,000 value is.
Seems like a bit of an incomplete demonstration.
Henri Cartier-Bresson would not approve.
This pro photographer and photo editor agrees with you on the quality of the photos. Pretty meh.
Decisive comment.
He says at the end of the video who and what Phase One’s cameras are for. Hint: it’s not wedding photographers. He also admits that he isn’t in the target audience himself. What his sample shots show is that the camera back captures a lot of detail and offers a large dynamic range. Obviously, neither will show on a computer screen, especially in a low resolution version of the picture. The full image is > 100MB.
Yeah. Weirdly uncompelling images used as examples.