Phase One H25 Review

This brief hands-on field review is part of a larger series of ongoing articles and reviews ofmedium format digital backs. If you have not already done so you might wish to beginby reading myDigital Back Surveyand then refer to the other reviews in this seriesthat are linked at the bottom of that page.

This is not a comprehensive review of thePhase One H2522 Megapixel medium format back. My friends atVistek, Canada's largest professional imaging dealer, were kind enough to lend me one for a few days, along with aHasselbladsystem to test it on. Because of the short time period involved this review is necessarily just my impression of how well the back performs under some basic testing conditions.
Along with theLeaf Valeo 22, thePhase One H25is the second 22 Megapixel medium format back to ship during the third quarter of 2003. What makes the H25 different than the Valeo 22 and the other medium format backs that I have been reviewing during the past few months is that it needs to be co...