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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: 3, Interesting) by Kromagv0 on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:39PM
At almost $50,000 I doubt that it will be mostly, but then there is that more money than brains category I mentioned so for that group it probably is mostly.
I have been asked when out taking photographs why I have such an old lens on a new camera by many people. I do use old lenses some of which are about 50 years old with most being closer to 40 so they old and look the part. The reasons I keep using them is resolving ability on most prime (non-zoom) lenses hasn't really improved (ultra wide angles are the exception), I still use an old film camera as well, I understand how these old lenses work, how to use them correctly, and finally I don't want to spend close to $10,000 on comparable modern professional lenses. Just this past weekend I got asked several times why when I was photographing some flowers at the Como Conservatory as a high end digital with an old Vivitar Series 1 135mm lens sitting on a stack of old extension tubes with a circular polarizer on the end is an odd sight.
Gear matters up to a point and far too many people chase gear without understanding why. Most of the time it is because they think they will take better pictures but so many of the problems with people's pictures is not what they were taken with, but in how they were taken. If one understands how to take photos and then understands their gear it becomes possible to work around the limitations of ones gear, especially with digital images.
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