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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.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:32PM
I think you are a bit off there with the horizontal field of view. The 73.7 degrees is for 35mm equilvant (24mm x 36mm) along the 36mm edge. On a medium format a 24mm lens would be like an ultra wide angle on a full frame digital or 35mm film. I'm not sure of the crop factor for this camera but I would guess it is likely around .6 or maybe a bit more so that 24mm lens would be closer to the equivalent of a 14 or 15mm lens on a 35mm camera, so closer 102 degrees for horizontal FoV. Also with as high of a resolution that this camera is shooting at the diffraction limit becomes a real concern as even with its large 53.4mm × 40.0mm sensor that is a lot of pixels to stuff in there or simulate. So assuming you have that mythical f/1.4 lens that offers edge to edge sharpness wide open you might get that resolution if you can focus it correctly. Also the sensor is only actually a 100 megapixel image and the max resolution is the results after doing the sensor shift magic.
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