Phase One XT
The Ultimate Landscape Camera
Phase One’s new XT field camera is designed for its 100 or 150 megapixels IQ4 series capture backs, creating the ultimate camera for highend landscape and location photography. The XT camera system allows for exceptional portability and flexibility, enabling both hand-held or tripod-based photography.
The precision-engineered and hand-crafted Phase One XT body is a work of art in itself and incorporates a rotatable tripod mount and an integrated handgrip fashioned from ebony. The shifts can be up to 12 millimetres laterally or vertically for perspective control or the creation of ultra-high resolution stitched panoramas. The shift settings are recorded in the file’s EXIF data. The tripod bracket uses an Arca-Swiss type mounting plate, and the rotation function allows for quick switching between landscape and portrait.
The camera body is designed to fully integrate with the IQ4 series capture backs which provide fully-implemented touchscreen controls and a live view finder. The current choice of IQ4 capture backs are the IQ4 150MP, IQ4 150MP Achromatic (for B&W capture only) and the IQ4 100MP Trichromatic. All deliver a dynamic range of 15 stops and have the powerful RAW editing capabilities of Capture
One software already integrated to give greater control over RAW capture when shooting on location. Importantly too, the XT camera system is designed to expand and evolve. Integral to the XT system are three new dedicated Rodenstock lenses which incorporate Phase One’s purpose-built “X-Shutter”.
It’s an electromagnetically-controlled leaf shutter with carbon-fibre blades, driven by a linear motor and has a speed range of 60 minutes to 1/1000 second. It’s also extremely durable and has a lifespan of 500,000 cycles.
The new XT-Rodenstock HR lenses all feature exceptional resolving power, and large imaging circles to accommodate the shifts. They also retain manual focusing. The line-up comprises a Digaron-S 23mm f5.6 ultrawide (with an angle-of-view of 112 degrees), a Digaron-W 32mm f4.0 wide-angle and a Digaron-W 70mm f5.6 standard lens. Not only do the lenses integrate with the XT body electronically, but also physically with a helical focusing mount which moves the entire lens in relation to the focal plane for ultra-precise focusing adjustment. The lens mount itself is Cambo’s WDS fitting and these first three digitally-integrated lenses are just the start of the XT camera system lens range.