This review is part of a larger series of ongoing articles and reviews of medium format digital backs.If you have not already done so you might wish to begin by reading myDigital Back Surveyand then refer to the other reviews in this series that are linked at the bottom of that page.

Illustration Courtesy KodakBackgroundTheKodak DCS Pro Back 645started out for me with two strikes against it, but in the end scored a resounding home run. The first strike came from my review earlier in 2003 of theKodak DCS 14n. I had been very disappointed with the14n, both from an ergonomics / design perspective and also in terms of its image quality at anything other than ISO 80-100 in bright light. I found it to be a flawed design and said so in no uncertain terms in my web review as well as inIssue #7ofThe Video Journal. This was the first Kodak Pro product that I had reviewed, and it didn't put them in a good light.

The second strike was due to comments I had heard from an industry pundit...