The V96C was an amazing piece of electronic equipment--shown at the left--but with an astonishing number of shortcomings. The feature which possessed the best and worst qualities was the
Imagebank external hard drive
. The imagebank was the heart of the V96C. It contained an amazing 40 Gig harddrive which could hold 1000 of the large picture files. The battery attached to the imagebank so that the power button was there also instead of on the digital back. All communication to the back was through the imagebank which had to be linked to a computer as a device through a firewire port. The imagebank was heavy and tethered to the camera through a co-ax cable. I had a settup to hang it from the tripod. Since there was no removable storage media, the pictures could only be removed by hooking the imagebank to a computer. This was very cumbersome. Now, there's more to the Rube Goldberg-like story. I already mentioned that I have electronics in my Hasselblad. This was an experiment they undertook and then abandoned. However, the electronic Hasselblad is won
derful. Well, they don't like to adapt their digital backs to my model. So, it is necessary to somehow fire the digital back while the shutter is open--not an easy task. To do that a company called The Kapture Group has created a device--which costs about $400--to link the shutter realease, the PC post on the lens, and the digital back called the One shot cable release shown at the left. The PC post fires a flash so that signal is used for the back. I wish I had taken a picture of the tripod when all of these cables were connected--it was quite a sight! Next time I will talk about using the V96C.
The V96C was an amazing piece of electronic equipment--shown at the left--but with an astonishing number of shortcomings. The feature which possessed the best and worst qualities was the Imagebank external hard drive. The imagebank was the heart of the V96C. It contained an amazing 40 Gig harddrive which could hold 1000 of the large picture files. The battery attached to the imagebank so that the power button was there also instead of on the digital back. All communication to the back was through the imagebank which had to be linked to a computer as a device through a firewire port. The imagebank was heavy and tethered to the camera through a co-ax cable. I had a settup to hang it from the tripod. Since there was no removable storage media, the pictures could only be removed by hooking the imagebank to a computer. This was very cumbersome. Now, there's more to the Rube Goldberg-like story. I already mentioned that I have electronics in my Hasselblad. This was an experiment they undertook and then abandoned. However, the electronic Hasselblad is won
derful. Well, they don't like to adapt their digital backs to my model. So, it is necessary to somehow fire the digital back while the shutter is open--not an easy task. To do that a company called The Kapture Group has created a device--which costs about $400--to link the shutter realease, the PC post on the lens, and the digital back called the One shot cable release shown at the left. The PC post fires a flash so that signal is used for the back. I wish I had taken a picture of the tripod when all of these cables were connected--it was quite a sight! Next time I will talk about using the V96C.
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