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Mamiya Press Release Excerpt:
Mamiya Goes Digital with World’s First
Integrated Medium Format Digital Camera
ELMSFORD, NY – Mamiya announces the
introduction of the world’s first integrated medium format
digital SLR camera. With over 60 years of expertise in design
and engineering of the world’s best medium format cameras and
optics, Mamiya addresses the next generation photographer with
the Mamiya ZD SLR medium format digital camera.
The Mamiya ZD was designed from its
inception to satisfy the demanding professional’s need for a
high quality, portable and affordable medium format digital
camera. Its built-in 22 Mega pixel 36mm x 48mm Dalsa CCD imaging
sensor is nearly 3 times the size of a full size 35mm D-SLR
sensor. The Mamiya ZD captures exceptionally high resolution,
sharp images with rich smooth tones. The 14 bit A/D (Analogue to
Digital) converter records information as 12-bit per color
channel for exceptional true to life color accuracy. Data
transfer from the Dalsa CCD sensor is processed in real-time
with Mamiya’s exclusively designed Application Specific
Integrated Circuit (ASIC). The advantage to the photographer is
that image data captured from the sensor is optimized faster
than ever before. With a frame capture rate of 1.5 fps, it’s the
fastest 22 Mega pixel digital Medium Format System in the
industry.
With its built-in SD and CF media storage
card choices, the Mamiya ZD can be used on-location or in the
studio, tethered or completely wireless. With intuitive on-board
software you can even select to fill both media cards
automatically, for long uninterrupted shooting. Utilizing an
innovative cartridge type, removable Low-Pass Filter, it offers
photographers a choice, depending on shooting conditions,
whether to use the filter or not.
The Mamiya ZD camera body design concept
was influenced based on the award winning Mamiya 645AFD series.
The image quality that only Mamiya world-class AF lenses can
offer is completely utilized with the Mamiya ZD. That’s because
the Mamiya ZD incorporates the same 645AF interchangeable lens
mount design. The sensor size of the Mamiya ZD is nearly equal
to a 6x4.5 film format, which enables use of the full range of
wide-angle to telephoto lenses as they were design to perform.
All Mamiya 645AF lenses are fully compatible with the Mamiya ZD.
The lightweight magnesium alloy body and compact size resembles
35mm D-SLR cameras without sacrificing durability.
To complement the Mamiya ZD camera, simple
yet powerful Digital PhotoStudio software has been developed. It
offers a complete imaging capture, editing and processing
solution in both MAC and Windows based computers. With a
firewire connection (IEEE1394) cable many of the cameras
functions and controls can be selected and set via the computer
for the ultimate studio shooting experience. |
