BetterLight
scanning back, review at various tradeshows.
The
BetterLight digital camera won the highest award for photographic
quality, judged better than PhaseOne at the recent international
photography trade show in Las Vegas.
The
PMA photography
trade show has a category for high-end professional large format
digital cameras (CCD scanning backs). Cameras in this class are
the Mack trucks and Rolls Royce of the professional studio cameras.
The BetterLight scanning back won highest honors, beating out PhaseOne
(which came in last!).
These
snapshots of the display on the trade show wall do not do full justice
to the pictures, but basically the PhaseOne came out too dark (above
right, lost detail in the shadows). The Better Light came out, well,
better (# 22 in both pictures; the PhaseOne result is the excessively
dark one, # 20).
Here
is the Better Light model Super 6000 CCD scanning back for large
format cameras (we use a Cambo Ultima 4x5 camera, which replaces
a Sinar X). Calumet just sent the Better Light, North Light Sun
Spots, and the Cambo Ultima 4x5 camera to FLAAR. For our opinion.
We will be testing and evaluating this equipment all year (after
all, what good is a 30-day review? Don't you want your camera to
last more than 30 days!). We tested the prototype model of the Better
Light for two years, and the Better Light never stopped, never failed
the entire grueling period (test was under extreme tropical conditions
in Guatemala and Honduras; the Better Light system even survived
constant fallout from major volcanic eruptions outside our test
studio in Central America).
Contact
is Mike Collete at info@betterlight.com
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this
page first posted Feb. 25, 2000; last updated Aug. 5, 2001 Design
updated 9/4/2001