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10/19/2007 09:45:06 AM · #1 |
| Im going to photo school next year, and one of the things they require me to buy thats in the package is a digital back. What exactly is this and what does it do? |
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10/19/2007 09:52:00 AM · #2 |
Digital backs are used on medium format cameras.
Google it and you'll get more info than you care to read.
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10/19/2007 09:53:42 AM · #3 |
you have to buy a digital back? From what I know those things are damned expensive as I've always associated them with Hasselblad, Maimya (?) and Phase One.
as for what they do, i've no idea. I think a camera connects to it, but it uses the digital back's sensor for the picture creation, and you use your own thing for the lens and settings etc. Hasselblad have just relased a back with 39mp I think. Just what you need... 50mb raw files.
I could be wrong as it's one of those things I've never looked into as I don't have a spare $40,000 to buy one. |
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10/19/2007 09:57:43 AM · #4 |
| well yeah, we have to buy a mamiya camera....the damn package is $5000.....but ive been told by many that the school is worth the price |
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10/19/2007 10:14:10 AM · #5 |
What the camera is $5000 or your tuition is $5000? That had better be the best damned course in the world for making you get this stuff.
You could rent one depending on how often you are in, but whether this is economically viable is at your discretion. |
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10/19/2007 10:23:56 AM · #6 |
A mamiya medium format digital back is only five grand? wow... might have to look into that... much, much more money for anything digital MF around here.
Worth the price? Probably. MF ought to blow the monkeys out of anything Canon or Nikon have to offer as far as making prints is concerned.
An expensive but exciting direction to go.
Message edited by author 2007-10-19 10:25:28. |
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10/19/2007 10:49:48 AM · #7 |
| The tuition is much more than $5000, just the package required for the program is $5000 |
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10/19/2007 11:01:06 AM · #8 |
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10/19/2007 11:21:50 AM · #9 |
| Makes my NYIP course look like a merry-go round ride. Good luck with that one. |
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10/19/2007 12:05:59 PM · #10 |
| Are you going to Hallmark Institute? |
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10/19/2007 12:18:27 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Tez:
you have to buy a digital back? From what I know those things are damned expensive as I've always associated them with Hasselblad, Maimya (?) and Phase One.
as for what they do, i've no idea. I think a camera connects to it, but it uses the digital back's sensor for the picture creation, and you use your own thing for the lens and settings etc. Hasselblad have just relased a back with 39mp I think. Just what you need... 50mb raw files.
I could be wrong as it's one of those things I've never looked into as I don't have a spare $40,000 to buy one. |
they didn't just release it, from what i know they just discontinued one of them(there are 2) there is the H2D-29 and the H3D-29.
a digital back is just a different back for your MF camera. So instead of using film in the MF it will be all digital..
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10/19/2007 01:33:11 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Mulder:
Are you going to Hallmark Institute? |
Yeah, I'm thinking about it....How did you know? Do you know anything about this school? Im looking to get as much information about this school as possible. |
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10/19/2007 01:40:49 PM · #13 |
I looked into it a bit last year. It's the only photo school I know of that 'gives' their students medium format cameras their first day of school. (of course, it's part of the tuition, there's no giving at all!)
It's a very professional school with a large focus on the business aspect of photography. It is quite expensive (40k for the 1 year program) but they pretty much guarantee you'll be ready to start your own photography business or join a high-end one.
I was going to do it, but decided I'd like to keep photography my hobby, not my career. |
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10/19/2007 06:51:37 PM · #14 |
| ^^^Well yeah, Im heavily considering attending that school. |
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10/19/2007 07:00:51 PM · #15 |
I checked out that Hallmark one and it looks like a great programme. Not feasible for me due to the 10 months extra-full time but it looked good
They had an open house recently... might want to check with them as it might not have yet occurred... I got a card for it recently but forget exactly how long ago.
Not a bad little camera either :-) |
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10/19/2007 07:04:17 PM · #16 |
| ^^^Im definitely gonna visit soon, I have an appointment with an admissions person on Monday |
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11/13/2007 11:55:57 PM · #17 |
| you're not required to buy a digital back at all.. they lend each student one for the year. |
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11/14/2007 01:24:08 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by Tez:
as for what they do, i've no idea. I think a camera connects to it ... |
A digital camera back is designed to completely replace whatever part of the camera body normally holds the film. Some of the very first "digital cameras" were 4x5 and 8x10 sensors (I think they worked more like scanners -- not like today's array-on-a-chip) which replaced the film-holders of like-sized view cameras.
Around 1997, Stephen Johnson did a series of digital photos throughout the National Parks, using an 8x10 view camera with a digital back -- I think it captured a 140MB file, which in those days was pretty darned big. |
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11/14/2007 02:11:08 AM · #19 |
Yeah, remember the good old days, when a 140Mb file was big. Oh no, wait, that STILL sounds pretty damn huge to me! ;)
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