Connect with Your Images - Wirelessly - Phase one iq2 digital backs

One of the really exciting features of the IQ260 is that it is wirelessly compatible with an iPad which means that I can operate the camera standing comfortably here not even looking at the scene. Picture is made... ...and within a few seconds the image appears on screen, beautifully rendered. One of the exciting things about that is that as an old-fashioned large format photographer, I can also view the image upside down. This allows me to appreciate whether it’s well-composed or not in a way that I prefer. It also gives me a histogram and essentially the detail that I need to prove that the picture has worked. Perhaps most importantly, the feeling of connection with the finished image is restored in a way that I don’t remember since I was a large format photographer. It is a very, very exciting feature. When you use a traditional viewfinder, you’re looking through the camera at the scene which is great in all sorts of ways but it is much harder to understand the picture in analytic terms. When you look at a playback image, you’re looking at the finished picture. You can visualize that print a lot more easily, analyze the composition and the lighting relationships in a way that’s much harder looking through the viewfinder. To me that is a real help. My landscape photography involves often a lot of walking, sometimes mountaineering, and it’s never been an option for me to shoot tethered with a heavy laptop, cables and all of the palaver that involves. Shooting with Capture Pilot wirelessly especially with a small iPad, I can suddenly imagine using this technology on long hikes, even on mountaineering hikes. I think that the creative feedback I’m going to get from that will actually revolutionize the way I can work. I think a lot of large format film photographers will agree with me when they realize that using the iPad is very analogist to looking at a 10x8 transparency on a light box or the iPad Mini much more like a 5x4. And I’m really excited by that reconnection with my traditional working methods.