this is quite possibly the most over-the-top camera that I have ever had
an opportunity to share with you guys on this show today we're gonna be talking
about the Phase One XF medium format camera with the IQ3 monochrome back the
Phase One system if you are not familiar with it this is a medium format digital
camera and it is a modular system so that means not only can you interchange
the lenses you can also interchange the backs and the back that we're looking at
today and the one I got to use was the IQ3 monochrome to my knowledge is the
only one in the country right now it's the first one at least there have been
game changer cameras throughout history obviously you know if you look at more
the modern era I think you consider things like Leica's the Nikon F
Nikon F3 when you get into digital cameras things like the Canon 5d
series particularly the mark 2 which introduced video but there are cameras
that come along that really redefine things and this back in particular
redefines it from me now it is a monochrome back which means it shoots
black and white and there are other companies that make monochrome cameras
but this one is very different and the reason it is we're gonna get into this
when we look at some images in a second but basically the IQ3 monochrome is
able to capture light beyond the visual spectrum so if you consider the whole
spectrum of light you have ultraviolet you have infrared and then in the middle
is what the human eye can detect and so it's just kind of a small space in that
entire spectrum of light and this camera because it doesn't have a Bayer filter
in the way the sensor is designed actually starts cutting into the
infrared spectrum and it's pretty amazing it's not an infrared camera but
it does pick up a wider range of light in monochrome that we are able there
sorry a wider range than what we are capable of seeing and this allows you to
start shaping that using filters and such and I'm going to show you with the
sample images it is unbelievably amazing might as well get this out of the way
there's a little running joke that we have here that Apple started a couple
weeks ago deeper pixels that's right and look all the glass and the stainless
thanks Phil so on a scale of one to ten of your deeper pixels deeper pixels with
maybe the iPhone sorry Apple being one and the phase one where does that fall
ten didn't quite catch that TEN that's more like it
I would give this a 10 not only are the pixels deeper but they're also actually
bigger on the sensor because you have a much bigger sensor
to work with and even with a hundred and one megapixels there's a lot of room the
low-light performance on this camera we will get to in just a second keep that
in mind it's pretty much not an issue so before we get into the physical features
of the camera I want to look at some images because that really is the
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photography okay so I want to share with you guys some of the image files from
this camera and I'm actually using an image editor called Capture One which is
made by Phase One I do want to note that Lightroom will not read these files it
does not play ball so you have to use Capture One for these having
said that though I'm very impressed with Capture One there's some things that you
can do in here that you can't do in Lightroom and it's pretty amazing just
the image quality and what you can do with it as an editor anyway this first
image this is one that I have done some edits to and the way this was shot is
actually so it's later in the afternoon and the Sun was starting to set and it
was right behind this flag and so I really wanted to get this image where I
had these dark shadows in the front and you can see the flag kind of with this
glowing quality to it and one of the things that I love about this camera is
that this sensor is able to do things that typical cameras can't in that you
retain a lot of detail in the really dark shadows and also they're really
bright highlights okay so I'm gonna zoom in here to a hundred percent so you can
kind of see the detail you're getting one thing I'm going to note here is that
even when I move this around I mean it's amazing at 101 megapixels of course you
would expect to have this kind of quality but what's also interesting is
that Capture One even when I move it it takes just a second to render the image
but it keeps up really well and it responds really quickly and it's it's a
pretty amazing combination this camera and Capture One but this is an example
of an image I have done some editing on and I want to look at some images now
that are straight off the camera so this is my friend David Brookover you
might remember him from the artist series David is an incredible guy and
he's also probably one of the greatest living landscape photographers today
he's really amazing anyway he was in town with a couple friends and I did a
video on that last week and you saw us in that video just shooting some
portraits casually in the backyard and we were doing them actually for this
purpose of kind of showing you the difference of what's going on here so
what I want to show you is that you know I mentioned that this sensor is actually
picking up light that is beyond the visual spectrum and so when you start
getting into infrared territory this means things that emit infrared light
are going to go to a brighter into things so this means like skin tones
anything like foliage grass trees so a lot of those things will start to be
more bright and so this is just straight through the camera now one of the things
you can do if you want to dial that back is you can use an infrared cut filter
and when you apply the infrared cut filter we go from this to this image and
you can see that these skin tones are much more tamed down and really the
trees in the grass and everything in the back kind of went a lot darker but
what's interesting is if you check out the histogram on here everything is
exposed properly but those mid-tones are what shift and it allows you to really
start dialing in a specific look that you might want to get with this camera
and of course once you start applying other filters - we were going for
various yellow filters and you can even go a little bit darker into red or
something like that and it really starts to shape that image and it gives you a
lot of flexibility and this to me is the key with this camera now it does slow
you down to have to dial in with filters and stuff but if you're doing landscapes
particularly or architecture or even portraits I think it really becomes
beneficial to what you're doing because it allows you to really shape that tone
this is very similar to why I got so excited the first time I developed black
and white film and started getting into that and realized that there's different
looks you can get using different film types different developers different
development times and you can really start to dial in different things just
using one kind of film and I think that this is in many ways a digital
equivalent to what you're able to do in a darkroom
so the first shoot that I did with this camera we all actually went to
Weatherford which is just outside of Fort Worth David is doing a project
right now for the gallery where he's doing a series of prints and they're
themed around really old trees that grow in the south so he's gone to
Texas New Orleans and traveling over toward South Carolina and so forth and
so we found a pecan tree that literally is over a thousand years old up until
another discovery recently it was the oldest tree in the United States it's
just on this property anyway that's what these images are and
you can see that this is where a 100 megapixel back really starts to excel is
when you're doing landscapes now I want to show you something I shot this image
wide open at F 2.8 and you go in here and look at the tree in the bark and I
mean the detail on here is just like it's outstanding you can also start to
see when your focus is off and it becomes very frustrating sometimes to
work with a camera like this especially with the really shallow depth of field
but it has have a beautiful look to it the lens that we used on this was the
Schneider 110 I believe 2.8 and it is just absolutely gorgeous but when you
start to stop that down by the way this was shot with no filter at all and it is
unedited this is straight off the camera so there's a lot of room for processing
and if I go down here I'll find another image this was done at f/8 and you can
see that everything gets very sharp and very detailed in focus and it becomes
kind of one of the interesting things on here is in post-processing when you're
looking at essentially an image that has 15 stops of light and what you're able
to do with that in post-production typically right off the camera things
look really flat it's kind of like if you've ever shot video using log
profiles when you're getting that much dynamic range in your image it
almost does require some editing at some point and with a landscape like this I
mean there's a lot of room to go on but you start to get just a lot of
especially when you get all this detail back in the foliage and stuff is really
getting this tree to stand out but it does give you room to go on that and
there's a lot you can do one other thing I want to show you this is a shot that I
set up so using this camera is typically a little bit slow to set up David was back
here he's got a really right stuff panorama shooter he was shooting a
Pentax camera and doing some panoramic stitching with it and so we set this up
so basically we took the filter off at one point and I got him to turn around
and then the amazing part about this that I noticed later in post is I'm
going to zoom in to a full 100% here on your screen and I want you to look at
the glasses around David's neck those are sunglasses you can see right through
them in this exposure it is amazing the other thing worth noting too is the
David shirt is actually black and you'll see that I
have another video that I'll do on this shoot and you can see that in some of
the supplemental footage but it is really amazing the kind of dynamic range
that you get out of this camera just know that there is a lot of
post-production involved but it's also built for that another thing I want to
address is ISO performance because it's pretty much not an issue at all in this
camera so this is a picture that I took of my cat in the window this was about
6:00 in the morning it was extremely overcast there wasn't a lot of light I
also stopped down the camera so I could keep everything in focus this is shot at
12,800 ISO 12800 now if you zoom in and look at the shadows that's typically
where noise starts to hide there isn't any in here I mean that is a clean image
and considering hid and hosts the cameras that I own really 3200 is about
as high as you can push it maybe 64 depending on what it is this is it
12,800 the camera will actually go up to 51,000 which
is amazing he goes to stop higher than this but it just is mind-blowing
the quality that you get even at really high ISO settings like that I'll show
you the same thing on a little bit darker image and again this is shot very
low light so this is f/4 1/100 of a second ISO 12800 and if I zoom all the
way in here you can see that in these shadow areas they're really isn't any noise
and there's a couple reasons why I think that this works on this camera really
well first of all you have a much bigger sensor so it is a medium format sensor
you're also not having to capture red green and blue channels so it's just
capturing light so my guess and I'm not an engineer so somebody may correct me
on this I'm imagining that the algorithm that the camera uses to deal with noise
reduction is probably a lot simpler than it would be on a color camera the other
thing is just physically the way this sensor is designed even with a hundred
and one megapixels it's a huge sensor so you're able to not only have sorry about
the joke deeper pixels you are able to have much bigger pixels and the way they
can be spaced on the sensor so I mean it's just it's insane that I could be
shooting at 12,800 ISO handheld and not have any issue at all another question I
get asked a lot is can you use the Phase One as a street photography camera and
I'm not really sure why you would want to do that because it is massively heavy
but I did try it anyway and it works just fine I mean the autofocus works
great had it set up for back button focus and did
bunch of shooting just around Fort Worth and it came out really cool another
thing I want to show you is this shot I was shooting in manual mode you don't
have to you can use aperture priority or shutter priority but I was shooting
manual in these because I really wanted to get a feel for what the sensor would
be able to do and this one was overexposed obviously I want to show you
what you can recover on this so you can see even in the histogram I have clearly
blown the whites clear over but if I just lower the exposure on this and I'm
not even dealing with just lowering highlights or using a curves channel or
anything you can see that you get a lot of it back so the amount of data that
this sensor is capable of capturing is just incredible - I'm not saying you
would want to go out and not pay attention to your exposure but it is
very forgiving in just this insane way another thing that is very cool is I saw
this guy coming and this is an old dairy factory that we were shooting in front
of so I kind of set up I was ready for it when he came by there was no tripod
involved with this this was all hand held one of the really cool things that
capture one has is this keystoning feature and Lightroom has similar lens
adjustments but this is kind of your instant 8 by 10 and there are basically
three modes that you can choose in here you can do Keystone vertical you can do
a horizontal or you can do a combination thereof and this one is a combination
basically it's hard to see on here but if you look at these little circle
points it's going to give you a square and basically you look for lines to line
that up and you apply it you can see that this was rotated a little bit
and centered in but you have a hundred and one megapixels to deal with on here
so it's it's pretty amazing so you know if you're not using a tripod it can be
forgiving just as much as I think exposure can on the sensor this camera
is really just like it's so amazingly impressive it's unbelievable I wanted
the bulk of this review to be centered around looking at images and seeing what
this camera can do because that is what separates it from anything else on the
market that's available it really is a special image and I wanted to look at a
lot of those to show you what is involved with that now the camera is no
slouch either now most of the image quality we've been talking about here is
the back it's the IQ3 monochrome you could easily swap that out for a color
back if you wanted to those are interchangeable but this is centered
around the XF system and the XF camera is amazing it is probably the most
elegantly designed user interface I have ever used on any camera it's like using
an iPhone not a camera and most of you know that are familiar
with like Sony's menus or even Nikon and Canon they get very complex they get
very deep they're non-intuitive everything on here is just a tap away or
swipe away and the way it works is basically you have your main menu
functions and you tap on any of these to change what that is so this could be you
know your priority mode this could be the metering mode this could be
autofocus and then you can swipe to go through the extra modes which include
things like an HDR mode there's a time-lapse mode you can do focus
stacking there's also a pro photo mode which is very cool because this enables
you to actually radio-control the Profoto system lights from the camera
itself also very cool is there is a seismograph built into the camera now
this is one of the drive modes and what this does is it senses any motions so if
you're shooting landscapes in windy conditions or something that's not
stable it will actually wait until there's no movement in the camera before
it makes the image which is very cool and you also get a digital bubble level
everything is very accessible and extremely well thought-out on the
physical design of the cameras well all the dials the back button focus
everything is easy to access and what I kind of felt like using this cameras
that it's just an extension of you as a photographer and that's what a camera
should be it is a tool to get the job done I never once felt like I was
fighting with the camera to find something or to scroll through a menu to
get to something and a lot of that is just very typical of just beautiful
Scandinavian design we were kind of joking around calling it the IKEA of
cameras because it there really isn't another interface like this out there
now the interface we've been looking at is on the top of the camera and that's
mainly the camera functions itself for the XF series there is a screen on the
back of the IQ3 as well of all the backs do and it controls mainly the
functions related to the sensor so this is going to be everything from image
playback to live view and so on and so forth and just like the touch screen on
the top of the camera there's a touch screen here and it's more responsive and
intuitive than anything I've ever used and it's just like working on an iPhone
the live view is exceptional and I used it quite a bit as a focus aid and what's
really cool is you just basically when you're in Live View you can tap and
scroll in and not only is the quality image good but it maintains an
incredible resolution while you're zooming in and is very useful as a focus
aid the image review layout is extremely useful as well it has everything from
histograms to warning overlays to under and overexposure light level temperature
map even and that enable you to like really be super critical if you're
making images especially in the field now a lot of times a camera like this if
you're using in the studio you may be tethered to a computer so you can
actually see your images and analyze them there but what I really like about
that touchscreen on the back is it does enable you to have a lot of control and
a lot of access to things if you don't have a setup like that and you're
shooting in the field so if you thoughts and observations about Phase One first
of all they are not a consumer camera company and I am not their target
audience and most people watching this are really not either they deal with
cultural institutions like art museums or historical societies that need to get
extremely high resolution images for documentation purposes that's probably
their biggest customer base second to that is probably architecture
photographers and then you have high-end fashion and people who are making enough
money to support it and some fine art photographers now that's why the pricing
is high and that's why what they're doing is very cutting edge we're really
not their target audience having said that though companies like Phase One
represent the cutting edge of imaging technology and so this is typically
stuff that in the next couple of years you'll start to see trickle down on to
the consumer level and I do have to admit part of me wishes that I didn't
have the chance to play with one of these because you immediately start
thinking about how you can possibly finance something to the tune of fifty
sixty five thousand dollars as a camera setup which is completely impractical
but the other cool thing is Digital Transitions the company that were nice
enough to loan this camera to us to look at
they also rent them so if it's something high-end that you need just for a day or
two for a specific shoot that is a possibility
so check out Digital Transitions because renting one of these is really not that
bad of an option and speaking of I want to give a shout-out and thanks to
Digital Transitions again they did not pay me to do this video
they simply loaned me an extremely expensive camera to play with for a few
days because Rod and I asked and that was really nice and gracious of them to
do so for those of you who are sponsors I've got some downloads for you and if
you don't know what I'm talking about it will explain just a second but if you're
sponsoring this channel if you go over to the community tab you will see
downloads to not only a gallery of images that I showed you today you can
download these at full resolution they're JPEGs but I also have put a raw
file available for download please note that Lightroom will not read this file
it's about 131 megabyte file but you'll need a copy of capture one to read it
and they have a 30-day free trial for Capture One so if you need to download
that to try it in fact you should check out Capture One
because it's pretty amazing software if you don't know what I'm talking about
with this whole sponsor business if you look below this video next to the
subscribe button you're going to see another button that says sponsor on it
and this gives people the opportunity to sponsor the channel and you can get some
additional downloads and content when they do them it's really there's no
videos behind a paywall I know there's been some confusion on that it's still
the regular Channel it just enables me to make great content for you guys and
you get access to extra things so when I review cameras and stuff I will let you
download RAW files and such so anyway it's kind of a cool way that you can
help me help you if you know what I mean so I really do think this is one of
those groundbreaking cameras that comes along and completely changes the game
and I would like to get your impressions as well so please leave me a comment
below I've got some more videos coming up we've got photo assignments on Monday
so be ready for that and then I also have some follow-up videos I've got
another one where we're actually taking this camera out in the field and
shooting with it and we're doing some landscape work and things like that so
you can kind of get some more Phase One if you want and then also I have some
stuff coming up on Rod's filter set and so it's going to be a lot of videos this
month and I'm really excited until the next one I will see you guys then
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