Better Light's rechargeable battery is available to power the scanning back even in the most difficult locations. With your Windows or Mac laptop, you will travel with less gear than when using film holders, and have the luxury and instant gratification of digital capture.

Use16-bit capture modes to record all the information that the CCD sees and be able to make precise adjustments to fine tune the image later. Maintains maximum accuracy, speed and confidence in photographing that perfect moment.Critical adjustments to exposure, color balance, tone range and file size can be done prior to capture for a "near-perfect" first generation digital image that can still be re-adjusted later without losing quality.

Capture extremely large digital files to create image quality superior to any other method. Maintains impressive detail and clarity of images enlarged for billboards, wall art prints and other display applications.

Peter Grote has been photographing spectacular mountain vistas using large format cameras for many years. Much of his work now is done with a Better Light scanning back.

On a recent trip to the Annapurna range of the Himalayas in Nepal he captured 500+ megapixel color images (below) with more detail, clarity and tonality than large-format film.