P65+ Field Review

Zion Sunrise. March, 2009
Phase One 645AF with P65+ back and 75-150mm lens @ ISO 50

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It's become all too easy these days to wax rhapsodic over the latest digital cameras. We are at a point in time where the technology is improving at an almost exponential rate, and each new generation seems to outperform the last, sometimes by a significant margin.
ThePhase One P65+medium format back is the world's first 60 Megapixel back and also the first to qualify asfull645 format. There is no cropping factor over 645 format film. The back produces a 350 Megabytes file in 16 bit mode and can fire at 1 frame / second (actually, a bit less).
After testing a pre-production unit briefly in November, shooting with a sample full production unit in January on myAntarctic Workshop Expedition, and then working with my own unit in early March in Zion National Park, I now feel like I have a pretty good idea of what the P65+ is about, and what its...