I recently took a H4D60 and a H4D40 up in a helicopter for a flight around Cape Town. The goal behind the exercise was primarily to test out the capabilities of and differences between the two cameras and secondly because I wanted to go in a helicopter…

Some people were reporting better results with 22MP MF cameras than with newer, higher megapixel MF cameras. They are assuming the bigger physical pixel size of the 22MP sensor works positively against the effects of diffraction. How could that be? Read our test results here.

High ISO has predominantly been the domain of 35mm digital systems with CMOS sensors. Few people use medium format (with CCD sensors) above 400ISO (even this only at a push) due to the large amount of unattractive noise that occurs at these levels.

There are so many types of cameras, flashes and other photographic equipment out there, we thought it’d be a good idea to do some serious testing!