We use the Sinarback 54H to photograph paintings, works on paper such as prints, drawings and photographs, textiles and fashion arts such as tapestries, costumes and jewelry, three-dimensional objects such as sculpture, decorative arts including ceramic and glass ware, and furniture and musical instruments.

Over the past two years we used the Sinarbacks to photograph, at print reproduction quality, over 15,000 Japanese woodblock prints. This would have been virtually impossible using large format film and would have required not only additional funding but twice the time to scan the images

The image quality of the Sinarback 54H in 4-shot and 16-shot mode is unsurpassed by any film or digital capture device for fine art reproduction. Paintings are one of the most demanding categories of art objects to photograph. They have complex surfaces requiring lighting control and finesse best understood as a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional plane. The 12-stop, noiseless, dynamic range of the Sinarback 54H is capable of rendering the “actual” tonal range of the painting. In addition, the Sinar color engine provides the largest and most accurate color space of any digital capture systems available.