Hasselblad, makers of professional cameras has taken photography to a new height with the introduction of H3DII-50. Equipped with Kodak sensor, the total megapixel count goes up to 50. According to them, at 50 million pixels, or megapixels, the sensor can capture digital images with unprecedented resolution and detail. For instance, with a 50 megapixel camera, in an aerial photo of a field 1-½ miles across, you could detect an object about the size of a small notebook computer (1 foot by 1 foot).
Other features of H3DII-50 include photo capturing a 1 FPS, hardware supports a maximum of ISO 400 which can be upped by Phocus software to ISO 800. CF cards or ImageBank II are the available storage options. Expected to cost a hefty $37000.
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[Via Electronista|Kodak]
I am not a professional photographer, but I am under the impression that with 10+ megapixel digital cameras, you can blow images up to poster size with no real, noticeable degradation in quality. If that’s the case, how big can you blow up a 50+ megapixel image?!? With 99.999% of the images being published online or in newspapers or magazines, does anyone really need that much super-detail?