With its 22-million pixels and 9-micron pixel size, the Ixpress
Digital Back is state-of-the-art in high-end digital capture.
Whether connected directly to a computer or to its own Image
Bank for computer-free operation, you can shoot and store full
resolution images with a burst rate under 2 seconds. Advanced
electronic design, featuring Imacon’s unique DDC technology,
ensures ultra-lownoise images for maximum clarity, density
and dynamic range with true 16-bit color resolution.
You don’t need to be tied to your computer to capture
hundreds of high-resolution images. With a storage capacity
of more than 850 132-MB images and power for up to 8 hours of
constant shooting, the Ixpress Image Bank makes the whole world
your studio. Its disk is specially formatted to automatically
maintain full speed throughout its lifetime. After shooting,
simply connect the Image Bank to a computer to view, select
and process your images. All you need is Imacon’s FlexColor
image-handling software on the Mac or PC at the site.
In a digital camera, keeping the CCD cool is vital because electronically
generated heat not only represents wasted energy drained from
your batteries, but also creates noise in your images, thereby
limiting your dynamic range, density and image quality. Thanks
to its unique Double Duration Circuit technology, Ixpress runs
more than twice as cool as similar digital backs, giving you
clearer pictures, true 16-bit color resolution and double the
battery life.
In a studio environment, you can increase the resolution of
your captures by means of a unique multiple-exposure technique
controlled by the optional 4*Res module, which can capture
images up to a stunning 528 MB in size. In all single-shot
cameras, the CCD is divided with red, green and blue pixels
sitting side-by-side and then combined and interpolated by
software. With 4*Res, you use multiple exposures to allow the
entire CCD area to capture each color without interpolation,
thereby providing maximum resolution and absolutely moiré-free
images.
Ixpress offers a stand-alone digital capture system that includes
both a high-end digital back for your camera and the Ixpress
Image Bank, which supplies battery power and high-speed image
storage.
As you work, you can inspect your shots using the two-inch colour
preview display, which provides histograms, image browsing and
ultra-fast zooms down to the pixel level. Or to work even faster,
use the audio exposure-feedback system (patent pending), which
uses sound to tell you if each new shot is over, under or perfectly
exposed without requiring that you look away from the viewfinder.
When you get back to your studio and connect the Image Bank
to your computer, a digital contact sheet pops up automatically.
Preview images appear very quickly (100 every 2.5 seconds),
so you can start sorting and selecting them right away. Imacon’s
powerful, award-winning imaging software, FlexColor, helps
you fine-tune and process your images for a perfect final result
in RGB or CMYK (print-ready) colour.
