Unlimited applications, instant image quality
The iXH 250MP Camera System delivers unmatched image quality, instantly. A single, instant capture reaches nearly A0 at 400ppi. The speed and quality at which you can digitize large materials has never been better.
The iXH 250 adopts, and perpetuates, the Infinity Platform – a powerful processing engine that seamlessly handles large files at high speed, for a long duration, perfectly supporting high volume cultural heritage digitisation programs.
The Phase One iXH 250MP is ideal for :
— Flat Copy Digitisation
— Film Capture: Digitising Transparent Film and Glass Plate Negatives
— Book Scanning
— Artworks preservation and reproduction
— 3D Scanning solutions
— Specimen capture (herbaria and medical)
Instant image quality
Built around the largest, highest density medium format CMOS sensor, the iXH 250MP Camera System delivers the highest available imaging resolution. The sensor’s dynamic range of 14.5 f-stops captures the finest details and scientific colour fidelity.
Speed
Traditionally, flat objects, such as documents and books, have been scanned using flatbed or overhead scanners equipped with a linear CCD sensor. While some of these devices can produce high resolution and good quality output, the scanning of a single page can take up to 20-30 times longer than using a single-shot instant capture high resolution medium format camera with an area-array sensor and they cannot provide the same level of image quality.
Image Quality
When digitising cultural heritage objects and materials, it is important to produce and maintain the highest image quality possible in terms of resolution, sharpness, tonality and colour. Phase One’s 250MP
CMOS sensor, Phase One and Schneider-Kreuznach high precision optics, stable automated copy stands, and Capture One’s advanced workflow and algorithms enable curators, photographers and digitisation technicians to ensure that no detail gets missed and their collections are archived with the highest level of quality for future use, conservation and preservation.
Automation and Ease of Operation
New high precision AutoColumn copy stands paired with the iXH 250MP camera system and Capture One CH deliver AutoPPI - automated camera and column positioning setting automatically the desired capture resolution.
Tools for auto-cropping and for automated inversion of film captures from negative to positive also add to the move towards automation, as does Slipstream, the simplified capturing UI for Windows.
RAW Workflow
Unlike scanners, the RAW files coming from Phase One cameras contain the RAW data and all the relevant information necessary for processing and reprocessing the image, ensuring flexibility and a future-proof workflow. Images can be re-processed over time as software performance develops and improves.
Flexibility
Future-proof tethering: With the Infinity platform of iXH, the tethering options of Ethernet and USB-C provide many possibilities for flexible installation and workflow.
Multi-purpose use: Unlike scanners, a camera mounted on a copy stand can be moved up/down and can use different lenses to accommodate different object sizes. It can also be mounted on a tripod allowing photographing large, wall mounted or 3D objects.
Low Maintenance
Collections often include hundreds, thousands, or even millions of items that need to be digitised and reproduced consistently and accurately.
The Phase One iXH 150MP Camera System is designed and tested to withstand the toughest working conditions. It is built with minimal number of moving parts and Phase One’s Reliance Shutter, ensuring long life and low maintenance intervals. The design allows for quick and easy swapping of components when it is time for service. The local support provided by a network of trained, value-added resellers ensures continuous uptime and fast turnaround.
