50 Mpx Hasellblad

ThOnda

Here is the link.
I fell in love again...

AllMyOwnTeeth

drool.... that's insane - 300mb files!

GhostInTheRuins

Bah, no examples

Ricky91t

1 fps capture rate thanks to 4-channel read-out structure

Arciphel

Jay-sus, that looks a bit special alright - if i had the cash i'd love to buy a (film) hasselblad body for shooting landscapes.

I know the old 39MP Hasselblad bodies used to cost about €20,000 so I dread to think what this one costs, but then I geuss if you are worried about the price then you probably aren't their target market.

SteveDPirate

Seriously though........ is this even necessary?? It must be for very, very specialised shooting. Anybody have any examples.......

ThOnda

I think that sensible limit is 20 MPx from at least full frame sensor. That should allow me to crop and have fine details. Let's see what will be the 6D (5D MkII) like :-)

Ricky91t

SteveDPirate wrote: »

Seriously though........ is this even necessary?? It must be for very, very specialised shooting. Anybody have any examples.......

Printing 800 meters x 1000 meters canvas prints?:D

mike65

Pixel ****. Its the opticals that ultimatly decide the picture quality (and a steady hand) not the pixel count.

Mike.

City-Exile

These are often used for images which will later appear on Billboards.
It's grand for the controlled environment of the studio, or outdoor set. Bit of overkill for everything else though.

Arciphel

Check out the level of detail in a exhibition print by a photographer like Andreas Gursky, and then tell me it's overkill!

Ninja_scrotum

I know a guy who uses these cameras. His prints are the size of buildings so you need the high mpixels.

Borderfox

A 5d quality will blow up to building size, it all depends on the viewing distance. Billboards are hideous when you get up close to them

stcstc

actually billboards are really low res, like screen res


But the ones that are very hard to do are those glossy ones in bus shelters, they are very high res and huge as a photo print


the thig about those cameras is not just the high pixel count, but the dynamic range, they are higher than any of the slrs from canon or nikon

City-Exile

It's all well & good talking about dynamic range, but a 300Mb file can't be easy to manage??? I'd love to have the money to throw at one of these yokes, but it all boils down to the simple question, can I manage without one?

Of course I bloody can!

DaireQuinlan

City-Exile wrote: »

It's all well & good talking about dynamic range, but a 300Mb file can't be easy to manage???

Not that hard. I scan Medium format at 2400 DPI. Gets to about the 3/400 mb mark. PS can handle them easy. Just have to have enough memory and enough free swap space. Funnily enough I find that Bridge completely falls over. If I have a bunch of tifs in a directory from 100->500 mb and I point bridge at it to get the thumbnails, it will fall over without fail within short order and drag the machine down with it. I have to watch its memory usage, wait until it gets to about the 1 gig mark, then restart it. rinse. repeat. PITA.

Fajitas!

4x5 film can easily come in at the gig mark if scanned.

Scanning back can easily come in at 2 gigs... If you need it, you need it.

I've not had much of a problem, but I have to make sure my dedicated scratch disks are completely clean, and there's nothing else eating into my RAM

stcstc

i regularly handle files of upwards of 300 Mb, they are not that big, i worked on something recently for an exhibition stand that was 1.9 gig

I use a mac pro with 8 gig of ram and 2Tb or storage.


and photoshop doesnt even worry about that kind of size.

City-Exile

Fair enough, guys.
You live & learn!

bbbbb

I've seen where people make pinhole cameras with flatbed scanners. 100MP+. Shutter speed a bit of a problem

rabbitinlights

Most high end fashion photographers would use a tethered hasellblad, Glassy fashion mags demand a seriously sharp picture.

S.

magicbastarder

mike65 wrote: »

Pixel ****. Its the opticals that ultimatly decide the picture quality (and a steady hand) not the pixel count.

Mike.

this is a hasselblad, though, not a holga. don't forget that the body can also correct for optics too - the lens characteristics are programmed in, so if you stick a, say, 80mm f2.8 on, it knows what the optical characteristics of the lens are, and can adjust the image to correct.