FB Series Digital Camera Backs


Why A Digital Camerz

when you can buy a 35mm digital camera for less?


The short answer:
For most of the same reasons you bought a
Camerz instead of a 35mm camera in the first place,
and then some.


The long answer (s):


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1. Reliability.
The Camerz Z camera series is built for abuse, long life, rough handling, and rock solid reliability. The MegaVision FB series digital back is built for the same purpose: a long, trouble-free lifetime of very demanding operation. 35mm digital cameras are not designed for, and will not stand up to, the kind of intense use seen by a typical Z camera. The Camerz Z shutter is built for a lifetime of failure-free operation. It will outlast the shutter of a typical 35mm camera 10 to 1 or more, as will the Megavision FB Series Digital backs on your ZII's & ZIII's.

2. Low Cost of Ownership.
The reliability and ruggedness translate into a very long lifetime and very low cost of ownership, both for the Z camera and the custom designed MegaVision digital back, which is specifically designed and fabricated to meet institutional needs with long life cycles.

3. Simple Operation.
Work just like you have always worked! The Camerz with the MegaVision FB series back provides the ultimate in simplicity of operation. There are no confusing menus, no mysterious buttons, no arcane settings to confuse and befuddle a photographer trying to get the job done. A 35mm digital camera attempts to be all things to all kinds of users, so it has many different settings and modes. Many of the settings are inappropriate for portrait work. Some kinds of failures are not obvious; pictures which look perfectly good on the tiny display of the camera may be completely unusable.

4. A viewfinder made for composition.
The Camerz viewfinder easily accommodates custom masks. Head size and position are easily and accurately framed immediately before capture, reducing post processing editorial time. It works with the FB series institutional digital backs the same way!

5. Superior Viewfinder Ergonomics.
The Camerz Viewfinder is more ergonomic and likely to reduce repetitive stress injury during a typical school session. Simply tilt the head down, instead of lowering the whole body in the unnatural position required to look through a 35mm viewfinder set at the normal height for student portrait photography.

6. Ideal Viewfinder location.
The Camerz viewfinder is on the side of the camera, rather than the rear of the camera, so the photographer is closer to the student. The additional steps to go behind the camera are avoided, and the photographer is stationed to more easily help pose the student and expedite students entering and exiting the set.

7. More Latitude for Better Quality Pictures.
The MegaVision digital back exceeds the latitude of inexpensive 35mm digital cameras. This means more tolerance to non-ideal shooting conditions, fewer re-shoots, and better quality images.

8. Superior workflow.
Simpler, faster and safer! The MegaVision workflow always provides back up raw files with no time penalty in addition to developed files, so inappropriate renderings can be easily corrected without loss of image quality. For example, if color balance was not correct, it may easily and without loss be corrected later.

9. Ninety plus percent of all institutional photographers can't be wrong.
The Camerz Z cameras are the icon of the institutional imaging business for very good reason. They do the job the best that can be done. The MegaVision FB Institution digital back for the Z camera is designed to complement and enhance that value. Speed, efficiency, low cost, high reliability, great support, fabulous image quality.

10. Because you CAN.
Until now, 35mm has been your only choice. You knew digital could mean increased profits and greater competitive flexibility and the edge you need. You thought about 35mm digital because it was the only game in town. Now you can do better. Shipping April, 2003. Fast, easy financing available immediately.

 

Twenty years of digital design experience from MegaVision make this changeover faster, easier and more profitable than any other choice:

 

a. Sitting throughput of 20-30 seconds or less per student is realistic. With fully formatted developed file and Mega file backup in one step.

b. Shoot all day every day without color shift or noise buildup.

c. Image quality exceeding film.

d. Work like you always have.

e. Redundant safety of RAW back-up, automatically.

f. Minimal training required for easy and fast implementation.

g. Files are formatted to your labs specification while shooting.

h. Data linking of the image files directly to the student data base, automatically, when possible.

i. Work directly with the top school/studio picture management systems: Image Ware Systems (School Days, etc.), Photo Lynx, Express Digital, Drums, & ShutterWare.

j. MegaVision FB institutional digital backs do double work duty. You can adapt any of them to work on medium format cameras when they are not being used for your long roll work! This further reduces cost of ownership.

k. Four choices to meet your cost, production and workflow needs.

l. You can photograph teams, faculty and even the band with the FB's! The image quality is that good! And you can switch from portrait to landscape capture without rotating the Z.

m. IR/OLP Filter is displaced from CCD to provide exceptional dust tolerance. And it is easy to clean when required.

n. Why wait 6 seconds for a preview image? High quality preview image is displayed just over one second after exercising shutter release.