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Hasselblad's New 400-Megapixel Multi-Shot Camera Captures 2.4GB Stills

posted by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-picture-that? dept.

Fnord666 writes:

A couple years ago, Hasselblad released a 200-megapixel, Multi-Shot version of its H5D medium format camera. Now it's back with a bonkers, 400-megapixel version of the H6D: the H6D-400c.

Hasselblad's Multi-Shot technology is pretty straightforward: it takes four 100-megapixel images, shifting the sensor by one pixel for each capture, and then two more shots that shift the sensor by half a pixel. By combining all six stills, the resulting file is a single 400-megapixel (23200 x 17400 pixel) 16-bit TIFF file that weighs in at 2.4GB. In fact, the images are large enough that the camera needs to be tethered to a computer to capture them.

[...] The camera will go for $47,995 when it launches in March, compared to the H6D-100c's relatively modest $27,000 price tag.

Story at The Verge.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:59AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday January 18 2018, @11:59AM (#624098) Journal

    Photographing the human body from multiple angles in super high resolution in order to map all of a person's skin imperfections in 3D.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:24PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @01:24PM (#624118)

    Translation: porn.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:01PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:01PM (#624209)

      The Great Race continues, between the camera manufacturers and the makeup industry.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:27PM (#624231)

        Don't forget the selfies.