Phase One Introduces Medium Format – XF Camera System

XF Camera System 14
Release Date : 2 June 2015
Price :
XF body + an IQ3 back (prism viewfinder + Schneider-Kreutnach 80mm LS Lens + Capture One 8.3)
XF IQ3 80 MP – $ 48,990
XF IQ3 60 MP – $ 41,990
XF IQ3 50 MP – $ 40,990
New lenses
Schneider Kreuznach 35mm F3.5 LS – $ 6,490
Schneider Kreuznach 120mm F4 LS – $ 6,490
Available at :  PhaseOne

Key features

  • 80MP resolution with 14 stop dynamic range
  • New Honeybee Autofocus Platform
  • New Modular viewfinders
  • High Resolution Lenses
  • OneTouch user interface
  • Fastest Tethered Workflow with USB 3.0
  • 5-year warranty

Phase One has unveiled a New Medium Format camera system – The XF. It sets a new standard in the field of professional photography. The system has cutting edge autofocus module – The Honeybee Autofocus Platform (HAP-1), New OneTouch User Interface, New Digital backs upto 80MP, New lenses with 100MP resolving power and to support the whole system all new Capture One Pro professional RAW editing application.

Phase One has designed the XF Camera System to deliver its fastest, most robust and most expandable camera system for professional photographers. Important advancements include:

  • New Autofocus Platform – The XF Camera System marks an important milestone for Phase One — a new patent pending and fully controlled in-house autofocus system: the Honeybee Autofocus Platform (HAP-1).
  • New Flexible OneTouch User Interface (UI) – Based on clean Scandinavian design principles, the OneTouch UI is a seamless and highly customizable combination of dials, keys and touch screens, allowing photographers to personalize camera controls for their specific shooting requirements, via camera or software. Using a new modern Phase One Camera OS, the OneTouch UI is user upgradeable and will evolve in accordance with customer needs and feedback.

Touch Interface

  • New IQ3 Digital Backs – A new full frame IQ3 80MP digital back is the first of its kind to offer exposures of up to 60 minutes using a new and Phase One-exclusive imaging sensor. It joins the new IQ3 60MP and IQ3 50MP digital backs — all three of which feature a high-bandwidth interface that enables advanced tools in the new OneTouch UI, including power-sharing capabilities.
  • New Lenses Ready for 100MP and Beyond – Two new Phase One Schneider Kreuznach Leaf Shutter lenses — 120mm and 35mm — are both designed to resolve beyond 100MP. They add to Phase One’s range of 20 high-resolution medium format optics, including a dedicated Leaf Shutter range, a Focal Plane range, specialty and zooms, and support for 60 legacy lenses.
  • New Capture One Pro 8.3 – Delivering the market’s best RAW image quality, more than 25 advanced photographic tools, and industry leading professional workflow, Capture One Pro 8.3 is built specifically for the XF Camera System and supports more than 300 different models of 35mm DSLRs. It offers the option to customize XF camera controls and delivers up to 30 percent faster tethered shooting.

Phase One Capture One 8.3

  • New Modular Viewfinders – The XF Camera System introduces a new 90° Prism viewfinder and a new waist-level finder. The full frame solid glass prism viewfinder is the brightest of its kind, and comes standard on all XF cameras. The new waist-level viewfinder (an industry classic) can measure exposure thanks to the HAP-1 autofocus platform ability to perform light metering.

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Specification

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