Digital Transitions, Gear Testing, Phase One
Massive Still Life Shootout
Jan
The Limits of Someone Else’s Testing
Digital Transitions firmly believes the best test is the one you run yourself, in your typical shooting environment, with your typical subject matter, with your particular approach to shooting. We provide several ways for you to do such testing:
- Our offices in NYC and LA are available to any of our current or future clients to do test shoots.
- We host several open houses, attend several photo conferences, and support several workshops every year where we have extensive collections of gear for use and testing.
- We can arrange a rental-toward-purchase where you rent the equipment and the cost of the rental is counted toward your purchase.
That said, we do our own in house testing as well, as much to inform our own opinions as to share with our clients.
Which Tests Were Run
Even dedicating an entire day to testing it was not possible to do run every test on every camera. Below is a table showing what test files you will find, and in which folders (e.g. the IQ3 60mp ISO sweep is in folder [X37 j]. We have rented a Pentax 645Z and Canon 5Ds and will be adding test raws from those cameras next week. If you are in NYC and own another camera and would like it included in this testing, please contact Doug Peterson (dep@digitaltransitions.com) ASAP.
| Aperture Sweep |
ISO Sweep |
ISO Sweep 1 Light |
Long Exposure |
Exposure Bracket |
|
| IQ3 100mp | X37 a | X37 b | X37 c | X37 d | X37 e |
| IQ3 80mp | X37 f | X37 g | X37 h | X37 i | |
| IQ3 60mp | X37 j | X37 k | X37 l | X37 m | |
| IQ3 50mp | Pending | Pending | Pending | ||
| Credo 50 | X37 q | X37 r | X37 s | ||
| Credo 40 | X37 t | X37 u | |||
| Sony A7 II | X37 v | X37 w | |||
| Sony A7R II | X37zg X37zi |
X37zf | X37zh | ||
| Pentax 645Z | X37zd X37ze |
X37zb | X37zc | ||
| Canon 5Ds | X37 | X37y | X37z | X37za |
The tests marked “pending” should be complete by the end of next week.
Download Raw Files
To downloaded the Raw files from this shoot out test, submit your email on our Phase One IQ3 100mp Raw File Download Page to receive an email with download links. If you have problems accessing the files please email dep@digitaltransitions.com.
Alternative Ways to Receive these files
All told this set of raw files is more than 31 gigabytes. Even on a fast connection you may struggle to download them. Please contact us if you would like to make alternative offline arrangements to receive these files.
