DICOMED
LITTLEBIGSHOT
New digital back
announced at Seybold San Francisco
by John Henshall
The Dicomed 'LittleBigShot' is, as its
name suggests, the baby brother of Dicomed's 'BigShot'. This
digital back uses a 24 x 36mm format 2048 x 3096 pixel (6
Megapixel) CCD from Philips with 14 bit pixel depth, dynamic
range of twelve stops and a rotatable housing to change
between landscape and portrait format without moving the
camera. Pictures can be captured either in one shot or three
shot colour modes, or single shot black and white. The
camera has a three-shot cycle in less than five seconds.
The back will interface to medium and
large format cameras and was shown attached to a Mamiya 645
body. It needs just one cable to connect it to a host
computer, a single FireWire cable, which supplies power,
control and picture interface.
A 'live' video preview gives a 5 frames
per second 768 x 512 pixel monochrome image which can be
displayed on a computer or video monitor or television set.
Price is expected to be $24,995. The design is extremely
neat and slimline, making it easy to handle for hand held
shots.
This article
first appeared as "John Henshall's Chip Shop" in "The
Photographer" magazine, October 1998.
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