Phase One Rental · Denver
The highest-resolution camera system money can rent — 151-megapixel full-frame medium format, up to 15 stops of dynamic range, and Schneider Kreuznach Blue Ring glass. One of the only places in the Rocky Mountains to rent a full Phase One kit.
The system
The Phase One XF IQ4 150MP pairs the modular XF camera body with the IQ4 Infinity Platform digital back and Schneider Kreuznach Blue Ring lenses. Its full-frame medium format sensor is roughly 2.5× the area of a full-frame 35mm sensor, capturing more light, more detail, and gradations that hold up under the heaviest crop or the largest print.
It’s a deliberate, tethered instrument — built for fine art, architecture, product, fashion, and commercial work where the file has to be flawless. Rent the complete kit or just the piece you’re missing, billed on our 3-day rental week.
Headline specs
Why medium format
The reasons a photographer reaches for a Phase One over the best 35mm mirrorless — and the trade-offs worth knowing.
≈2.5×
the sensor area of full-frame 35mm — more light, more detail, smoother tone
151 MP
vs ~45–61MP on top 35mm bodies — enormous prints and crop latitude
15 stops
of dynamic range in 16-bit IIQ RAW — deep, malleable files
1/1600s
leaf-shutter flash sync — impossible on a focal-plane 35mm system
The honest trade-off: medium format is slower, heavier, and tripod-minded — built for considered, high-value capture, not sports or run-and-gun. For work that lives on a billboard or a gallery wall, that’s exactly the point.
IQ4 Infinity Platform
The IQ4 back isn't just a sensor — it's a capture computer with tools that change what a single exposure can be.
Capture long-exposure looks with no ND filters — the back combines a series of frames into one RAW, cutting noise, extending dynamic range, and protecting highlights.
A second exposure is captured and blended into your frame for extra dynamic range and cleaner shadow detail — HDR-grade latitude, straight out of the capture.
The Capture One RAW core runs inside the digital back: custom IQ Styles, 4K JPEG processing in-camera, enhanced Live View, and a seamless tethered workflow.
Built-in focus-stack calculator and sequencing for edge-to-edge sharpness on product, still-life, and macro work — controlled from the camera or Capture One.
The Schneider Kreuznach Blue Ring lenses carry integrated leaf shutters, syncing flash up to 1/1600s — far past what a focal-plane 35mm system can reach.
Body, digital back, viewfinder, and lens are all separate. Rent the complete kit, or just the piece you need — an IQ4 back for your own XF, or glass to round out a shoot.
Kit & rates
Daily rates, straight from our catalog. Everything is billed on the 3-day rental week — three to seven days cost the same as three.
XF body · IQ4 150MP digital back · 80mm Blue Ring lens with UV filter · 4× batteries · charger · tether cable · 325GB CFexpress card · CFexpress reader · 256GB SD card.
How rentals are billed
We rent on a 3-day rental week. Three, four, five, six, and seven days are all billed as a single 3-day rental — so a full week costs the same as three days.
The glass
Leaf-shutter LS primes from 35mm to 240mm — flash sync to 1/1600s, autofocus, and the resolving power to feed a 151-megapixel sensor. Rent one with a body, or add to a kit.
All Blue Ring LS lenses use the Phase One 645 bayonet mount and carry an integrated leaf shutter for high-speed flash sync. Billed on the 3-day rental week.
Who rents it
Resolution and tonal latitude for gallery and large-format print.
Detail, straight lines, and highlight control for spaces.
Focus stacking and 151MP files for e-commerce and hero shots.
Editorial-grade skin rendering with leaf-shutter flash sync.
Files that hold up on billboards, wraps, and wide crops.
Color accuracy and detail for fine-art and heritage work.
How renting works
First-time on-location renters register once — a driver's license scan, two business references, and either a Certificate of Insurance on file or a card authorization for the replacement value of the gear.
Add the Phase One kit — or just the body, back, or lenses you need — pick your dates, and get a live price. Prefer a written quote? Send your list and we'll confirm the same business day.
Collect at the Kalamath St. shop Mon–Fri, 8:30am–5:30pm by appointment, or we deliver anywhere within 500 miles of Denver. Out-of-town crews: we stage the kit on arrival.
FAQ
Yes. photospace rents the Phase One XF IQ4 150MP system — one of the only places in the Rocky Mountains to rent a full medium-format Phase One kit. The complete kit (XF body, IQ4 150MP digital back, 80mm Blue Ring lens, batteries, charger, tether, and cards) is $825/day, and the XF body, IQ4 digital back, and Schneider Kreuznach Blue Ring LS lenses can also be rented à la carte. Everything is billed on our 3-day rental week — three to seven days cost the same as three. Pick up at the Kalamath St. shop or have it delivered anywhere within 500 miles of Denver.
It's the highest-resolution professional camera system commercially available — a modular medium-format platform built from the Phase One XF body, the IQ4 150MP Infinity Platform digital back, and Schneider Kreuznach Blue Ring leaf-shutter lenses. The IQ4 150MP back has a 151-megapixel full-frame medium format CMOS sensor (53.4 × 40mm — about 2.5× the area of a full-frame 35mm sensor), up to 15 stops of dynamic range, ISO 50–25,600, and 16-bit IIQ RAW files, with Capture One running inside the back for a tethered studio workflow.
A new Phase One XF IQ4 150MP system runs roughly $52,000 for the body and back alone, and a working kit with several Blue Ring lenses easily exceeds $60,000. Renting puts that system on a single shoot — a fine-art landscape, an architecture or product campaign, an editorial, or an archival reproduction job — for a fraction of the cost, and lets you test-drive medium format before committing. photospace rents the complete kit for $825/day on a 3-day rental week.
Yes. To take equipment on location you register for a rental account once — a quick step that includes a driver's license scan, two business references, and either a certificate of insurance on file or a credit-card hold for the replacement value of the rental. Renting just the studio doesn't require this.
We rent on a 3-day rental week: three, four, five, six, and seven days are all billed as a single 3-day rental, so a full week costs the same as three days. Daily rates are listed on every category page, and longer or recurring rentals are quoted on request.
Send your gear list (or a brief) and your shoot dates through the request-an-estimate form, and we'll confirm availability and send a written quote — usually the same business day. Estimates are free and open to anyone; a rental account is only needed once you're ready to take the gear out.
Yes. The gear-rental house is completely separate from the studio — pick up (or have delivered) cameras, lenses, lighting, grip, and production supplies and take them anywhere. No studio booking required.
Denver medium format
Add the kit to an estimate and get a live price, or send your list for a written quote. Pickup at our Denver shop or delivery within 500 miles.
