Leaf announces new Aptus-II 22 megapixel camera back
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted October 22nd 2009 3:56PM
posted October 22nd 2009 3:56PM
[Via DP Review]
Leaf introduces Leaf Aptus-II 5
NEW YORK, October 21, 2009 – Leaf Imaging today announced the Leaf Aptus-II 5 medium format digital camera back. The company's newest addition to the Leaf Aptus-II product family, the Leaf Aptus-II 5 features a resolution of 22 MP. And at a capture rate of 0.9 seconds per frame, it represents the family's fastest digital back.
The Leaf Aptus-II series of digital backs offers professional photographers the speed, image quality and flexibility to allow their work to keep pace with their imaginations. Designed to support photographers wherever they are shooting, Leaf Aptus-II series backs offer the largest display, 3.5" (6x7 cm), and only touch screen controls in the medium format market.
Pricing and Availability
The Leaf Aptus-II 5 camera back is priced at 5,995EUR and is expected to ship in November, 2009. The Phase One 645AF camera body with 80 mm lens is available for an additional 2,000EUR. All equipment can be ordered now from Leaf dealers
NEW YORK, October 21, 2009 – Leaf Imaging today announced the Leaf Aptus-II 5 medium format digital camera back. The company's newest addition to the Leaf Aptus-II product family, the Leaf Aptus-II 5 features a resolution of 22 MP. And at a capture rate of 0.9 seconds per frame, it represents the family's fastest digital back.
The Leaf Aptus-II series of digital backs offers professional photographers the speed, image quality and flexibility to allow their work to keep pace with their imaginations. Designed to support photographers wherever they are shooting, Leaf Aptus-II series backs offer the largest display, 3.5" (6x7 cm), and only touch screen controls in the medium format market.
Pricing and Availability
The Leaf Aptus-II 5 camera back is priced at 5,995EUR and is expected to ship in November, 2009. The Phase One 645AF camera body with 80 mm lens is available for an additional 2,000EUR. All equipment can be ordered now from Leaf dealers
i cant wait till bangbros gets a hold of these
Pervert.
You got my vote.
lol...you have my vote.
SP
The chick or the camera?
+1
If you wait one or two months when this comes out, the price cut will be 50%... definitely a waste of money for the quality that you wont even tell a difference if the the photo was taken with New Nikon or Canon...
I have to agree
This isn't for the same market as a Nikon or Canon. These are large format cameras, mostly used in studio modeling work and things like that. It's not something any normal consumer needs to worry about.
I really hate when people open their pie hole about stuff they know nothing about. This is a professional studio sensor. What makes this thing awesome is not the 22 megapixels. It is the SIZE of the sensor itself, and its dynamic range! This will absolutely destroy any Canon or Nikon in image quality. Nikon and Canon are not in the professional studio market. They make great stuff..(I'm a Nikon guy myself)...but medium format sensors provide much better detail...much better contrast. Much more film like than your standard APS-C or Full Frame 35mm Sensor. I have used similar equipment in school many times. There IS a difference.
There is "IS" Difference!? Really? ... Where? Under a Microscope!!?? ... Ryan, i agree, it is probably a good camera, but paying all those money for something you would barely notice, its insane! For 10,000$ you can buy a lot of equipment. You can almost build a photo studio, or buy a MAD amount of lenses! Good ones!
"Where? Under a Microscope!!??"
Actually, yes. Or maybe if you blow up the image to billboard size, or gallery size, say a 40"x60" portrait, the difference is clear. The size of the sensors on medium format backs are twice that (or more) of a full-frame DSLR, which means that images taken on them can be reproduced at large sizes with much less noise and grain. Serge, just because you don't need the quality doesn't mean that it's pointless/superfluous.
You're a moron. This is not for regular consumers like you and me. This is for studio photographers who need to print on something larger than what is practical.
Can anybody link me to a full-size image from a medium format camera?
http://www.phaseone.com/Content/Case%20Studies/Deep%20Zoom%20Gallery.aspx
overkill.
Great song by Colin Hay. Especially the Scrubs soundtrack version.
@Serge: Sir, have you every even used or at least seen a Leaf digital camera back in real life ? Or are you just another generic "canon/nikon/bullshit is tah bestz and all teh others sux" guy who dont knows shit ? Most of the recent dslr's are like toy cameras compared to this one.
@Corvi
Dude are you insane? It doesn't matter how good your camera is, if you get the right setting and a good shot with any DSLR? You will still go through post-production like Photoshoppin the shit of the image with Color Balancing, Exposure, Levels, Curves etc... And than you make the image look good! But if you take this camera, set up wrong settings and take a crappy shot, it still be a crappy shot! But hey!? you'll be 10K$ short, so go buy it man! I am not arguing, it's just people who does photography only less than 1% can afford to buy it...
Neither of you guys knows what you are talking about.
@Boostjunkie: Mhm .. And you know that. Actually im using a Hasselblad CFV II back for quite some time now. Next to that, i still shoot on film for purposes where i think not even that will be sufficient. My personal stuff are all shot on film with Leica cameras. I would say i know what i talk about if i say that every dslr can dig his own grave next to even this "cheap" MF digital back.
In before someone complains about it not being able to take video.
Is that ISO range correct? 25-400? Are you not allowed to take pictures unless the sun is shining down at noon in the California desert?
This is mostly for studio use. I'd be very surprised if any one would bring it out to the California desert.
the real macgyver wouldnt need ISO range. he'd roundhouse the earth's rotation till it was noon wherever he wanted it to be.
@alex
I'm pretty sure you are thinking of Chuck Norris. MacGyver would use gum, a paper clip, and a portable fan to alter the earths rotation.
Ok...it's literally just the back of a camera...
Yeah, but you get a picture of a hot girl with it.
This is actually not a bad price at all... it's medium format, not 35mm. The Nikon D3x is nearly as much.
There are many medium-format backs that cost well over $40,000.
When mentioning the touch screen, it appears "stylus required" is a side note.
Definitely for a niche market. It has a low ISO capabilities because it is intended for use in a studio with all the studio lighting you could want. You are not going to be using this to shoot a football game at night in the rain. Although with a sensor that size, I'll bet it does okay in lower light anyways.
The highest mpix system I know of is this: http://www.pdngearguide.com/gearguide/content_display/reviews/e3i4fc650632bff09aca61b17991619d45c
60.5 megapixels...
Hassleblad > Leaf.
Leaf = Phaseone \ Hasselblad = pwned
Am I the only person that noticed that it's actually 1.11 fps? They quote 0.9 seconds per frame, a unit of measurement that's more useful for still image photography.
this is weak.. and not because of fps or iso (its not meant for sports photography!). The dynamic range is an increase of 2 stops over your typical sensor in high end 35mm digital slrs, but they cost considerably less. But what about resolution? Fail. The table below shows what you need for film equivalents - in b&w. Color x 3
Films and their approximate Digital MegaPixel equivalents
Calculated @ 107 lines/mm film resolution for the interested photographer!
35mm - 24 X 36 X 11574 = 10,000,000 = 10 MegaPixels
645 medium format - 60 X 45 X 11574 = 31,249,999 = 31 MegaPixels
6X7 medium format - 60 X 70 X 11574 = 48,611,111 = 48 MegaPixels
6x9 medium format - 60 X 90 X 11574 = 62,499,999 = 62 MegaPixels
4X5" (Inch) Film - 102 X 127 X 11574 = 149,930,555 = 149 MegaPixels
8X10" (Inch) Film - 203 X 254 X 11574 = 596,782,407 = 597 MegaPixels
11X14" (Inch) Film - 279 X 356 X 11574 = 1,149,583,333 = 1.15 GigaPixels
from here: http://spotmetering.com/35mm-digital/