Phase One Achromatic Plus Review

Hardy Lake #2 – Muskoka, Ontario. September, 2009
Phase One 645 with 28mm lens and Achromatic back @ ISO 200
What Is It and Where Did it Come From?
Jim Taskettis the man behindBear Imaging, a specialty products VAR and photographic equipment reseller located in Silicon Valley. He is aPhase Onedealer, and among his customer are a great many universities, museums, scientific research labs, and government agencies, not to mention more than a few commercial, industrial and fine art photographers.
Many, if not most of these customers have specialized photographic requirements. This often includes extremely high resolution, infrared, ultraviolet, monochrome, as well as narrow bandpass imaging.
Historically these needs have been met with a variety of specialized films. But many of these are becoming increasingly scarce and are falling out of production. What has therefore been needed is a digital solution, but till now this has been more easily said than done.
The problem is that while...