It's the S-System, the company's update to its pro-series medium format offering.

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Because Mr. Salgado switched from medium format film to digital black-and-white cameras midway through his eight-year journey, Mr. Taschen and Mrs.

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Unlike VHS, neither the Blu-ray nor HD DVD format is a recordable medium at least, not in their present guise.

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Beck (as the exhibit demonstrates) was also a keen collector of outdoor photography, including work by his American contemporary William Henry Jackson and, most impressively, by Vittorio Sella, a younger Italian climber-photographer whose large-format work has rarely been equaled by anyone in the medium.

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When mounted on a PENTAX Q-mount digital camera body, it covers focal lengths from 83mm medium telephoto to 249mm telephoto (equivalent 35mm format) ideal for portraits, sports events and landscape photography.

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