Camera is Mamiya 645 ADF, macro lens, and Leaf Valeo 22 digital back.
In nature photography a tripod is essential: here we are using a Bogen carbon fiber tripod with either a Gitzo or Manfrotto ballhead.
#Leaf aptus 22 portable#
In the meantime, if you need a portable system that may actually function outside, take a Leaf for a test drive. But downside of these chips is their lens reduction factor (we explain this in Nicholas Hellmuth's popular course on digital photography, DP 201 ). This statement is made before our upcoming test drive of the MegaVision E5 22 megapixel camera back with OQO monitor/computer.Īn 11 megapixel image is plenty for basic portrait photography, publication, product shots, and 90% of what a normal photographer shoots. So far I would rate the Leaf Aptus and Leaf Valeo as one of the better semi-tethered portable systems yet designed. The exposure metering tools and gray balance capabilities strike me as precisely what is missing in the Kodak system. The Leaf Aptus 17 and Leaf Aptus 22 are the new models to replace the Leaf Valeo 17 and Leaf Valeo 22. So Sinar dropped out and now uses backs from Jenoptik. But the development costs were so high, and the Sinar backs were not portable. For several years Sinar sold its own branded backs. Some of the Leaf backs were the original backs for the Sinar cameras. The Leaf Volare, Cantare XY, and Leaf C-Most are earlier models. Leaf was bought by Creo, and Creo was bought by Kodak. However these scanners did not survive the takeover by Scitex. The Leaf 4x5 and other dedicated toaster-shaped slide scanners were way ahead of the day both in hardware and software many years ago. Leaf has a long history of digital cameras and scanners as well. We do most of our test photography in Guatemala because of all the photogenic opportunitities here. The camera was picked up at Parrot Digigraphic ( on Monday, and was at work in Guatemala, Central America on Tuesday. A 22-megapixel digital camera is enough to make even Nicholas smile.
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