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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: 4, Informative) by Kromagv0 on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:45PM
In the actual spec sheet [hasselblad.com] it states that the camera supports:
The tethering option has been common on high end professional DSLRs and digital medium formats for a long time as computer disk space is much cheaper than that more portable CF, or SD card storage. Also by tethering you can offload processing to the computer instead of doing it in camera. I would bet the camera does have internal buffering probably for several images. I have a previous gen flagship DSLR camera and when I put it in burst mode it will take 27 or 28 raw pictures at just over 8 FPS until it fills the buffer and then it slows down, so I would think that this camera also being a flagship medium format would have some reasonable buffer as well but I don't see any info on that. I am somewhat surprise it only supports UHS-1 and not UHS-1 and UHS-2 but most who use this camera will likely be using CFast cards (non studio) or have it tethered (studio) anyway.
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