MegaVision (cameras)

MegaVison, Inc.

Type	Corporation
Industry	Digital Imaging
Founded	USA (1983)
Headquarters	Santa Barbara, California
Key people	Richard Chang, John Cox
Products	Digital backs, RAW Processing Software
Website	www.mega-vision.com [1]

MegaVision is an American company that manufactures high-end digital photographic equipment. It was founded in 1983 to create a state-of-the-art image processing computer. MegaVision was one of the first companies to produce a Digital camera back for Hasselblad, Mamiya, and Contax medium format cameras as well as large format systems. Outside of US and Canada MegaVision products are officially distributed through Megavision International Pte Ltd.[2]

Products

Digital Backs

single shot

E series

With built-in oqo portable computer for portable image acquisition.

• E3/E427 6/11 megapixel
• E4 16 megapixel
• E5 22 megapixel
• Monochrome
• E/Z long roll camera back for institutional portrait photography

S series (discontinued)

Color information is obtained with a color filter array in front of the sensor

• S4 16 megapixel 36 mm square CCD sensor with 9 µm pixel size [3]
• S3 / S3pro 6 megapixel 24 mm x 26 mm CCD sensor with 12 µm pixel size [4]
• S2 4 megapixel 31 mm square CCD sensor with 15 µm pixel size [5]

three shot (discontinued)

Color information is obtained in three consecutive exposures through a red, green, and blue filter

• T32 [6]
• T2 [7]

Software

• Photoshoot Windows and Mac [8]

Other companies with similar products

Similar digital backs are manufactured / sold by Hasselblad, Leaf, Phase One, Sinar (Jenoptik Optical Systems), and formerly also Kodak.

External links

• article on Digital-Photography.org [9]
• article in Shutterbug on Pro-Quality Digital SLRs from 2001 [10]
• article by John Henshall from 1998 [11]
• article by Philip Greenspun on Digital Cameras and image sensors [12]