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Sinar Hy6/65 Medium Format Camera System

Mfr:
96-7101
Calumet:
SR967101

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Highlights:
  • Innovative 6x6 camera format
  • Easily rotatable handgrip
  • Automatic white balance
  • Active cooling
  • Single-lens autofocus reflex camera

User Ratings & Reviews:

Sinar has designed the Sinar Hy6 65 as a truly integrated digital medium format camera system that offers photographers maximum ease of use for mobile applications and an optimum workflow combined with outstanding image quality - the perfect solution wherever moving subjects need to be caught in action. Thanks to the seamless integration of high-quality system components with optimized communication between lens, camera body, digital engine, and software, the Sinar Hy6 65 allows the photographer to concentrate on capturing excellent images. No guesswork, no disturbing cables, no manual synchronization of different components – the Sinar Hy6 65 fully supports the photographer in their creative process.

Furthermore, the Sinar Hy6 embodies everything you can expect from a state-of-the-art camera system. As well as its precise autofocus and exposure metering system, it brings innovative features such as focus trap and focus bracketing to the world of medium-format. Thanks to its between-thelens shutter, it features the fastest flash sync speed for medium-format camera systems of 1/1000 second, allowing you to freeze-frame even very fast motion.

The 6x6 design of the Sinar Hy6 camera body gives the photographer an entirely different approach to their creative work. They can conveniently arrange their images with the large, bright focusing screen and interchangeable viewfinders, and switch the image orientation from landscape to portrait without having to turn the camera. Only 6x6 medium-format cameras with the appropriate viewfinders can offer such convenience when creating pictures with extraordinary perspectives.

The Sinar Hy6 65 offers access to a wide range of high-quality AFD lenses with the resolving power and image quality required for high-end and high-resolution digital imaging. It is also compatible with the manual focus and AF lenses of the successful Rollei 6008 camera system. Thanks to this access to such a wide range of lenses, the Sinar Hy6 65 ensures that you can capture your images with the intended perspective and scale of reproduction at the required quality level.

With both the Sinar Hy6 65 and the Sinar Hy6-s65r camera, images are captured with a 31 million pixel CCD sensor with an imaging area that is almost twice the size of a full-frame 35 mm camera system. Thanks to their QCIP technology (QuadCore Image Processing), these Sinar Hy6 camera models are the first digital medium-format cameras with fully integrated digital image processing on board. Image processing settings such as contrast, saturation, and noise suppression can be set directly on the camera system for fast and easy processing of the captured images.

The high-speed data transfer of the Sinar Hy6 65 and Sinar Hy6-s65r models allows you to take pictures at fast caputuring rates and store them to CF card in DNG and JPEG format. For the best capturing performance and image quality, the Sinar Hy6-s65r and Sinarback eSprit 65 also support the well-proven Sinar RAW file format. Alternatively, depending on the model, two image file formats DNG+JPEG can be stored simultaneously. Thus you can send low resolution JPEGs to the art director or agency immediately after the shoot and process the selected high-resolution images later on.

The Sinar Hy6 65 and the Sinar Hy6-s65r feature a very bright, high-resolution 3” display that changes its orientation according to the orientation of the camera. The hardware keys and track ball ensure the easiest, intuitive operation without the hassle of navigating through complex menu structures. The dual power supply concept of the Sinar Hy6 65 allows the camera system to be operated with one single battery in the camera’s handgrip for minimum weight. Alternatively, a second battery can be placed inside the digital unit for maximum operation time.

The Sinar Hy6 65, the Sinar Hy6-s65r, and the Sinarback eSprit 65 come with the latest edition of the well-received Sinar eXposure software, a professional application designed to capture, manage, and process high-quality digital images. Thanks to the seamless system integration, you can also control your Sinar Hy6 digital camera and Sinar digital back remotely.

Features:

  • Innovative 6x6 camera format
  • Easily rotatable handgrip for most suitable ergonomic position
  • Intuitive operation thanks to hardware dials and flat menu structure
  • Unique native DNG image files for flexible use of image processing software of your choice
  • On-board JPEG image files with four selectable sizes and two compression rates for fast internet transfer
  • Alternatively two image file formats can be stored simultaneously
  • Automatic orientation of the display for comfortable reading
  • Automatic white balance
  • Best suited for fashion shoots with up to 0,9 exposures per second, fast flash sync time and a sensitivity of up to ISO 800

Includes:

  • Sinar Hy6 Medium Format Camera Body
  • Sinar 65 Digital Camera Back
Sensor type
  • Kodak KAF31600CE CCD with full-frame technology and microlenses
Sensor size
  • 6496 x 4872 pixels (31.6 million pixels), 44 x 33 mm
Display
  • 3” with 640 x 480 pixels (280 ppi), automatic menu orientation Images, histogram, sensitivity, on-board exposure warning, memory status, white balance
File formats
    File formats
      File formats
      • DNG/DNG compressed
      • JPEG (four file sizes 31, 17,8, 3 million pixels / two compresion rates)
      • DNG+JPEG
      File size
      • 60 MB (DNG and Sinar RAW 16 bit), 181/90 MB (TIFF 48/24 bit)
      Capture rate
      • Up to 0.9 exposures per second
      Live image
      • NA
      Exposure time
      • 1/10 000 second up to 32 seconds
      Nominal sensitivity
      • ISO 200-800
      Image processing
      • Fast on-board QuadCore Image Processing (QCIP)
      White balance
      • Automatic, presets, manual
      Data storage
      • High-Speed CF Card Type I (4 GB UDMA CF card included), alternatively also directly on hard disk via Firewire
      Active cooling
      • Yes (ventilator)
      Power supply
      • Alternatively, one or two rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
      Operating time with battery
      • Up to 2000 exposures
      Firewire interface
      • IEEE 1394b (800 Mbps, compatible with IEEE 1394a 400 Mbps)
      Capturing software
      • Sinar eXposure 6.1 or later
      Operating systems
      • Mac OS X as of 10.4.11, Windows XP as of Service Pack 2, Windows Vista as of Service Pack 1
      Computer requirements (recommended)
        Computer requirements (recommended)
        • Apple Macintosh with Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or faster processors with 2 GB RAM
        • Windows-compatible PC with Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or faster processors with 2 GB RAM
        Operating temperature
        • 0 – 45 °C / 32 – 113 °F
        Dimensions and weight
        • 196 x 157 x 112 mm, 1,9 kg
        Camera interface
        • Sinar Hy6
        Camera type
        • Single-lens autofocus reflex camera with multi-mode automatic exposure control, variable metering pattern, automatic TTL flash (SCA 3000), and motor-driven film transpor
        Autofocus
          Autofocus
          • Metering range autofocus cross sensor: 1 to 19 EV at ISO 100/21 degree with 2.8/80mm lens
          • Intergrated red-light grid projector for AF metering in low ambient light conditions
          Shutter
          • Electronically controlled between-the-lens shutter from 1/1000 (with PQS lenses) to 32 seconds (with film up to 68 minutes), B, and T
          Information in viewfinder
          • Illuminated LC finder display for: Focusing status, shutter speed, aperture (with 1/3 f-stop increments), light balance for manual exposure metering and exposure compensation, spot/multi-spot mode, flash-ready indicator, TTL flash exposure control, frame counter, portrait or landscape format with 4.5x6 cm, battery status
          Action Grip
          • Locks in four positions (for waist-level finder, 45°- or 90°-viewfinder mode) with detachable leather hand strap
          Tripod
          • Quick-clamping tripod plate with 1/4” and 3/8” tripod threads
          Exposure metering
            Exposure metering
              Exposure metering
                Exposure metering
                • Spot, center-weighted multi-sone and integral metering
                • Automatic stray-light compensation during metering
                • Integrated RGB sensor for automatic white balance for digital photography
                • 0 to 19 EV at ISO/21 degree with 2.8/80mm lens
                Exposure modes
                • Shutter priority AE, aperture priority AE, program AE with fastest shutter speed priority, metered manually in steps of 1/3 f-stops
                Exposure compensation
                • Manualy adjustable from -4/23 to2 EV in 1/3 f-stops, via automatic bracketing control (in S position) in steps of 1/3, 2/3, and EV
                Automatic flash
                  Automatic flash
                    Automatic flash
                    • TTL flash metering on the film plane, 25-100 ISO
                    • Flash-ready and exposure-control is displayed in the viewfinder
                    • Automatic flash activation capability with Metz flash units in low ambient light situations
                    Flash synchronization
                    • With all shutter speeds up to and including 1/1000 second
                    Lenses
                    • AFD lenses: 35, 50, 80, 150, 180, and zoom 60-140 mm, and all Rolleiflex 6008-compatible AF and non-AF lenses
                    Camera control
                      Camera control
                      • On the camera via its own controls and dials
                      • Full remote access and control from computer via Sinar eXposure capture software and the connected Sinarback

                      Sinar Hy6/65 Medium Format Camera System

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