Rollei d30 Flex Digital Camera | | |  |
With its d-Series models, Rollei is opening a new chapter in its long and successful history of "cameras made in Brunswick/Germany ". Rollei has always been committed to developing tools optimally suited to mastering the challenges facing the discriminating photographer. Thus, there have always been different types of Rollei cameras to cater to different photographic needs. Different as they may be, however, all of them are made with the same cutting-edge optical quality and precise mechanics that have cemented the legendary reputation Rollei has been enjoying for the past 80 years. This tradition is a great challenge now that the information and communications technologies of the digital age are calling for suitable photographic tools. There’s more than mere pixels. To support this high level of image quality, the data are saved without compression and thus loss-free in raw format, leaving their high quality intact for subsequent processing in a computer. File sizes of 1.8 MB per image make more detail and color information available in the final picture. Rollei has intentionally chosen a 2/3"CCD chip with a resolution of 1.4 megapixels because its geometry allows the use of higher-quality lenses than with smaller chips.Its larger pixel area results in particularly good light sensitivity and a better signal-to-noise ratio.
Single-lens reflex camera in a metal body
A camera to shoot SLR the way you are used to
Reflex viewfinder with bright focusing screen for precise framing and focus monitoring, 95%coverage
TTL exposure metering for precise exposure even with lens attachments
Hot shoe for dedicated Rollei f28 flash and other flash units
49mm filter thread
Integral lens hood
Rollei Raw data
Uncompressed, loss-free saving in the form of raw data
30 bits per color
Recording of over 1 billion colors
Images standing up in court because raw data cannot be manipulated
1.8MB files for rich detail
Storage media
Due to the PCMCIA inter-face, most of the storage media currently available can be used in the d-flex cameras.
PC cards (ATA I to III)
PC-card hard disks plus, with PCMCIA adapter
CompactFlash cards
CompactFlash MicroDrive
SmartMedia cards
Iomega Clik!diskettes
Sony Memory Stick
Dedicated flash system
The flash options available in d-flex cameras and their ease of use leave nothing to be desired. The built-in flash with guide number 12 (ISO 100/21 ° per m) has three operating modes. In programmed AE, flash is synchronized at 1 /125 s/in the manual mode with any speed from 1 /8000 s to 1 /2 s. In the standard "auto " mode, which is always active when the flash is flopped up, the flash will be fired if the camera ’s metering system deter-mines a shutter speed slower than 1 /30 s at full aperture. To avoid red-eye effect, a preflash can be fired before the main flash. In the "fill in " mode, the flash will fire for every exposure, making it suitable, for example, for filling in deep foreground shadows in daylight photography. Should the range of the built-in flash of 4.5 m at minimum focal length or 3 m at the telephoto end of the zoom lens be insufficient, the powerful and compact dedicated Rollei f28 flash unit may be attached to the hot shoe. Its guide number is 28 (ISO 100/21 °,m),and it covers the entire field of the 7.3mm focal length (equivalent to 28 mm in 35mm photography). Regardless of the flash mode chosen or whether the integral or an external dedicated flash is used, the distancelinked flash-output control and the TTL preflash guarantee consistently perfect flash exposure irrespective of areas of high or low reflectivity.
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