The DM40 Digital Camera Kit from Mamiya puts the DM40 back, the 645DF body, and 2 outstanding software choices - Leaf Capture and Capture One - in the professional, or aspiring professional, photographer's hands. This kit provides the shooter with a hard core system that can handle all that today's commercial photographic world demands.
The 645DF SLR Medium Format Digital Camera body looks and handles like an SLR, but it produces medium format 6 x 4.5cm images, which have a sizable advantage over a 35mm sensor when it comes to overall image quality, as well as giving the photographer to ability to crop with confidence. When considering performance, the 645DF features Mamiya's DF camera-core technology. This technology features two user-selectable shutter systems - leaf or focal plane. The leaf shutter options include flash sync speeds up to 1/1600 second for fast, reliable capture with every click.
The DM40 back brings the power of 40Mp to the system, for precise images that are vibrantly detailed, even when cropped. This dynamic back also features an outstanding 16 bit color palette. Images shot with the DM40 will be rich with fine details and smooth tonal gradations to ensure maximum depth, breadth, and scope in every frame.
When combined with the included Leaf Capture and Capture One software, the DM40 kit proves its unmistakable relevance. Working photographers require workflow software that can keep up with the speed of business. Whether working on images shot, either tethered or to the CF card, in post-production, or shooting tethered on location, these software options provide sophisticated tools for getting the job done right the first time.
Featuring 22, 28, 33, 40, and 56 megapixel sensors precision-matched with the world's greatest optics results in exquisitely detailed image files, even when harshly cropped. The large sensors (up to 56mm) coupled with a lush 16 bit/channel color palette, provide exceptional color accuracy and rich high dynamic range photographs in just a single capture. Other digital camera systems simply cannot compare!
In demanding daylight situations, photographers can use one of three new leaf-shuttered lenses (55mm, 80mm, 110mm), designed by Schneider-Kreuznach and manufactured by Mamiya, for predictable high speed flash synchronization to fill-in or overpower even the brightest ambient light. For more conventional situations, photographers can choose to use one of 15 other world-class Mamiya optics, from 28mm to 300mm APO, designed for use with the cameras' focal plane shutter system.
Regardless of shutter choice, photographers can look forward to faster autofocus technology, as well as improved ergonomics and performance accuracy.
The goal is technical perfection...The result is a series of lenses which have set the new world-standard of performance. Each lens element is precisely polished and coated using Mamiya's proprietary multi-coating process to increase light transmission, dramatically reduce flare, ensure crisp, clean whites and vibrant, yet natural colors.
Mamiya engineers and inspectors test continuously as the lens is assembled to insure flawless quality. The result is a lens designed so carefully, built so meticulously, that it consistently renders extraordinary performance.
It is Mamiya's unique balance of extreme sharpness, brilliant contrast, accurate and consistent color fidelity and overall high performance that captures the imagination of contemporary photographers who choose Mamiya to express their personal visions. Among today's community of world famous photographers, Mamiya lenses have established themselves as the new benchmark by which others are measured.
While all Mamiya lenses can be used on today's high performance digital backs, the new Mamiya Sekor D series of lenses raise sharpness to a new level. Utilizing exotic Low Dispersion glass and Aspherical lens elements, the Sekor D Digital Lens series produces ultrawide coverage (28mm f4.5), exceptional color accuracy and sharp, contrasty images. And all Mamiya Digital lenses are designed to work with film backs, not only digital backs!
Included with all the Mamiya DM models are free downloads for two of the most powerful software solutions for tethered shooting, as well as Raw file post-processing: Capture One DB and Leaf Capture. Regardless of which software application you choose to use, you will feel confident in knowing that your Mamiya DM is designed to work with the industry's leading professional image processing solutions.
Capture One DB is designed to create the best image quality in the market and holds a series of easy-to-use tools created to match the professional photographer's daily workflow.