MegaVision is an American company that manufactures high-end digital photographic equipment. It was founded in 1983 to create a state-of-the-art image processing computer. MegaVision was one of the first companies to produce a Digital camera back

Digital camera back

A digital camera back is a device that attaches to the back of a camera in place of a film holder and contains an electronic image sensor. This lets cameras that were designed to use film take digital photographs...

 for Hasselblad

Hasselblad

Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden.The company is best known for the medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II....

, Mamiya

Mamiya

is a Japanese company that today manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people...

, and Contax

Contax

Contax was a camera brand noted for its unique technical innovation and a wide range of Zeiss lenses, noted for their high optical quality. Its final incarnation was a line of 35 mm, medium format and digital cameras engineered and manufactured by Kyocera, and featuring modern Zeiss optics...

 medium format cameras as well as large format

Large format

Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the 6×6 cm or 6×9 cm size of Hasselblad, Rollei, Kowa, Pentax etc cameras , and much larger than the 24×36 mm frame of 35 mm format.The main advantage...

 systems.
Outside of US and Canada MegaVision products are officially distributed through Megavision International Pte Ltd.http://megavision-international.com/

E series

With built-in oqo

OQO

OQO was a U.S. computer hardware company that was notable for manufacture of handheld computers. Its systems possess the functionality of a tablet PC in a form factor slightly larger than a personal digital assistant . According to Guinness World Records, the "OQO" was the smallest full-powered,...

 portable computer for portable image acquisition.

• E3/E427 6/11 megapixel
• E4 16 megapixel
• E5 22 megapixel
• Monochrome
• E/Z long roll camera back for institutional portrait photography

S series (discontinued)

Color information is obtained with a color filter array

Color filter array

In photography, a color filter array , or color filter mosaic , is a mosaic of tiny color filters placed over the pixel sensors of an image sensor to capture color information....

 in front of the sensor

• S4 16 megapixel 36 mm square CCD sensor with 9 µm pixel size http://mega-vision.com/products/1shot/s4over.htm
• S3 / S3pro 6 megapixel 24 mm x 26 mm CCD sensor with 12 µm pixel size http://mega-vision.com/products/1shot/s3/s3over.htm
• S2 4 megapixel 31 mm square CCD sensor with 15 µm pixel size http://mega-vision.com/products/1shot/s2/s2over.htm

three shot (discontinued)

Color information is obtained in three consecutive exposures through a red, green, and blue filter

• T32 http://mega-vision.com/products/3shot/t32/t32over.htm
• T2 http://mega-vision.com/products/3shot/t2/t2over.htm

Other companies with similar products

Similar digital backs are manufactured / sold by Hasselblad

Hasselblad

Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden.The company is best known for the medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II....

, Leaf

Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants....

, Phase One, Sinar

Sinar

Sinar AG is a Swiss company producing medium format and large format cameras.The name SINAR is explained as an acronym for "Studio, Industrie, Natur, Architektur, Reproduktion", though in , the acronym is explained as "Sach-, Industrie-, Natur-, undArchitekturfotografie sowie Reproduktion"...

 (Jenoptik Optical Systems), and formerly also Kodak.

External links

• article on Digital-Photography.org http://www.digital-photography.org/reviews_price_comparisons_medium-format_645_digital_camera_backs_for_Hasselblad_Mamiya_Contax_Rollei/MegaVision-S427_S4_S3_S3_ProBatPac-one-shot.php
• article in Shutterbug on Pro-Quality Digital SLRs from 2001 http://www.shutterbug.net/equipmentreviews/proquality_digital_slrs/0601sb_pro/
• article by John Henshall from 1998 http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9806bcs.html
• article by Philip Greenspun on Digital Cameras and image sensors http://photo.net/making-photographs/digital-camera