Phase One P20 Digital Back for H1

PHASE ONE P 20

The ideal choice for the working professional

Complete freedom to work
It is an indisputable fact that the combination of a professional medium format camera and a high-end digital back from Phase One provides you with the best image quality in the world! Now you can work without being connected to a computer or external hard drive:
No bags, no cables and no physical obstacles. You can work any way you choose to: Tethered or untethered.

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A business decision
The untethered Phase One P 20 is a long-term investment that provides you with image quality that fully matches today’s customer demands and saves you valuable time in the retouching process. The workflow is extremely simple to use and takes you from capture to print in minutes. It produces thousands of images 24-7 and provides countless creative opportunities. Finally, the P 20 brings home a nice profit every day to ensure that the investment you made not only is a pleasure to work with - it also pays the bills!

The revolutionary fully portable P backs are Phase One's new generation of digital backs for the professional photographer. Now you are able to benefit from the latest digital technology without being connected to a computer or external hard drive.

Phase One's 16 mega-pixel P 20 ensures that you have the freedom to work anywhere you want: on location or in the studio. P 20 fit the most commonly used medium format and large format cameras. P 20 integrate perfectly into your current workflow allowing you to keep your existing camera equipment. P-backs uses Compact Flash™ or Microdrive™ as storage. However, you can also connect your P-back to a computer through FireWire®.

Shooting with Phase One's P-series comes extremely close to working with film. Only now you also have the immediate feedback from the 2.2" LCD on the back of the camera, numerous creative opportunities and incredible image quality.
P 20 has a capture rate of up to 45 per minute. 

Digital back features

P 20 is designed for the shooter who is looking to switch to digital photography with the best possible equipment at a reasonable price.

The P 20 offers valuable and impressive features and specifications:

P 20 highlights (for technical details refer to datasheet)

16 Mega pixels Square format sensor 1:1 Fast capture rate (45 frames / min.) High sensitivity (50-800 ISO)

Ultimate digital backs range

With the introduction of the three newest backs, the P 45, the P 30 and the P 21, Phase One has completed the ultimate product range. Each product has its special features to target a certain type of photographer: the commercial studio-only shooter, the all-round commercial shooter, the portrait/social shooter, the high-end fashion shooter – Phase One now offers a digital back for every professional photographer. 

The revolutionary fully portable P backs are Phase One's new generation of digital backs for the professional photographer. For the first time you are able to benefit from the latest digital technology without being connected to a computer or external hard drive.

Phase One's P - backs fit most commonly used medium format and large format cameras. P -backs integrate perfectly into your current workflow allowing you to keep your existing camera equipment. P uses Compact Flash™ or Microdrive™ as storage. However, you can also connect P to a computer through FireWire®.

Shooting with Phase One's P-series comes extremely close to working with film. Only now you also have the immediate feedback from the 2.2" LCD on the back of the camera, numerous creative opportunities and incredible image quality.

The Phase One P-series is designed to match the requirements of professional users:
A compact, light camera you can carry with you when working on location

• Smooth handling in terms of removing battery and memory card (Compact Flash™ or Microdrive™)
• Easy operation in regards to navigating the camera and capture menus on the LCD screen
• High resolution LCD screen with bright colors and high contrast enabling use in direct sunlight

You can set ISO, white balance and file format on the back and after capture you can preview, browse, zoom and delete images. Also, exposure warning and histogram information is available to you while shooting. When you return to the studio all images are loaded into Phase One's Capture One RAW workflow software for better preview and further editing. Capture One supports RAW files from Phase One camera backs as well as a wide range of DSLR cameras. Among those: Canon®, Nikon®, Fuji®, Olympus® and Pentax®.

3S technology – Secure Storage System.

This revolutionary new feature has recently been introduced in the latest Phase One P-series firmware. The 3S technology improves the storage security level by checking the validity on every CF-card inserted in the P-back. This way, the risk of accidentally writing to a damaged storage media is eliminated. In step 2 you can also preserve the image buffer contents, and the remaining images will be stored when the card is reinserted.

IIQ RAW TECHNOLOGY

Intelligent Image Quality RAW, or IIQ RAW, is the name of Phase One's brand new patent-pending RAW file format. IIQ RAW is a compact, completely lossless file format that reduces the size of you RAW files. This way you can fit more images onto the memory card and the camera will not buffer during the shoot. 
 
A lifetime investment

Taking beautiful pictures and running a successful studio go hand in hand. Therefore, Phase One's digital solutions appeal to both the artist and the entrepreneur in you. If you are not already 100% digital you'll be amazed with the impact digital photography has on your business. It's not uncommon to see productivity and profit rise by 30% or more. Also, due to better and faster turnaround times, increased enhancing possibilities and digital format mean that digital studios are increasingly favored by cutomers.

P - Series - At last, an excuse to listen to your heart and your head!