50 Mpixel Hasselblad - Now thats a Camera

[DaveDragon]

http://www.hasselbladusa.com/promotions/50-promotion.aspx
http://www.hasselbladusa.com/media/1342809/uk_h3dii50_datasheet_v2.pdf


Can you say High End Sports Car Dollars!

[motorhead]

Quite a machine without a doubt !

But due to personal financial limitations am just going to stick with my Nikon D70S :rolleyes:

[UncleMark]

Normally I'd wonder what the asking street price would be... but if you have to ask what the price is you damn well can't afford it anyway!

Nice piece of work tho...

[AliMar]

A sweet box indeed. Not being one of great wealth nor being one that will likely become a professional snap dragon some day I don't see the sense in lusting for such a box. Hmmm... perhaps that's why my SO means when she says I'm blind & stupid. :D

[RVB1019]

With my stupid luck with digi camera, I'd leave it behind at some rest stop!

[zaphod]

$40,000 !!!

[OldGeezer]

Makes my old 500CM look like a dinosaur :rotf:

[spinedr]

$40,000 !!!
Shopping results for Hasselblad H3DII-50Hasselb H3DII-50 SLR Digital Camera Kit with ... $27,995.00 - B&H Photo-Video-Audio
Hasselblad H3DII-50, Multi-Shot System Digital ... $27,995.00 - Adorama Camera
Hasselblad H3DII-50 with 80mm Lens $27,995.00 - Calumet Photographic

maybe we can get a group buy for this camera :histerica

[pjessen]

These unthinkable sized images are no longer that. With SDHD cards going to two terabyte size, that would be perhaps 40,000 pictures at an uncompressed 50mb per photo...per card! (20 per gb, times 2000 gb) That is enough data for a substantial catalogue! The SD card advancement will result in video and photo equipment resembling huge lens with a camera no bigger than a current P & S mounted on the back.

Early Hassy digital backs were 16mb if I recall, sold for about $25000, but needed to be tethered directly to a computer. They were of course snapped up by the fashion studio guys and anyone who did catalogues.

I'm still hoping they have a drastic price reduction so I can use the bushel basket of Hassy stuff I have laying around, but no breath holding here.

Meanwhile, current DSLRs have passed 20 mb, point and shoots at 15 mb, and will probably climb further, so that will be the price point everyone will go with, with the medium format backs being sold only to the IRS so they can photo every buck you make and trace where it went.

[WAX]

I've considered upgrading from my floppydisc , but these Hasselblads are way outta town :)

[PMitchell]

Shopping results for Hasselblad H3DII-50Hasselb H3DII-50 SLR Digital Camera Kit with ... $27,995.00 - B&H Photo-Video-Audio
Hasselblad H3DII-50, Multi-Shot System Digital ... $27,995.00 - Adorama Camera
Hasselblad H3DII-50 with 80mm Lens $27,995.00 - Calumet Photographic

maybe we can get a group buy for this camera :histerica

I'll take two!

Life is way too short not to have great toys!
:yeah: :wow: :clapping:

[GolfGuy]

Jeeeeeezzz.....I thought I spent a lot of money recently when I bought a Canon 40D. :eek2:

[cfell]

Server too busy...

ah well, just when I had an extra 50k left in my retirement plan...

[jdgretz]

The biggest draw back for me is the lack of really high capacity CF Cards for the camera - Lexar tops out at 16GB and Kingston at 32GB. With 65MB per photo in RAW format (vs 150MB in tiff) that's not a whole bunch of photos (240 and 480 respectively) before needing to change cards. :) The ImageBank is not a good option for me, but beats being tethered to a computer. On the other hand, ISO range from 50 to 400 is a bit limiting for what I do.

On the bright side, Nikon is purported to having a medium format camera in the wings with resolution close to the Blad but at 1/2 the price. When (if?) that hits the market, it might well force Hasselblad to lower their price.

Still - given the chance...

jdg

[VRodPete]

The biggest draw back for me is the lack of really high capacity CF Cards for the camera - Lexar tops out at 16GB and Kingston at 32GB. With 65MB per photo in RAW format (vs 150MB in tiff) that's not a whole bunch of photos (240 and 480 respectively) before needing to change cards. :) The ImageBank is not a good option for me, but beats being tethered to a computer. On the other hand, ISO range from 50 to 400 is a bit limiting for what I do.

On the bright side, Nikon is purported to having a medium format camera in the wings with resolution close to the Blad but at 1/2 the price. When (if?) that hits the market, it might well force Hasselblad to lower their price.

Still - given the chance...

jdg


Yeah, but half of $28K is still $14K! And then you need all new lenses and a boatload of 16GB CF cards to boot.

[STARFIGHTER]

What do you print a 50 mega pixel photo on ??

[Randy]

What do you print a 50 mega pixel photo on ??Believe it or not 50mp at 300dpi is slightly less than 20X30 inches. Granted, 150dpi is usually adequate for very large prints.

[VRodPete]

What do you print a 50 mega pixel photo on ??

anything you want :D

[jdgretz]

Yeah, but half of $28K is still $14K! And then you need all new lenses and a boatload of 16GB CF cards to boot.
Wait a minute - you're driving an M20J and worried about 14K????? What's that amount to in terms of an annual :lol8:

jdg :thumb:

[pjessen]

Here we go, such a deal! It does show that things are moving forward in a hurry.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0904/09042903phaseonep40.asp

[Bruce_Yates]

The technology is indeed flying along! We can expect almost everything about cameras to get better and cheaper every single year (with the exception of top-grade lenses, which change far less often).

However, for practical application (or even some impractical ones!), there's little need to go with medium format, no matter HOW may pixels it has!

When you consider the new Canon 5D Mark II (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos5dmarkii/), which has 21 megapixels, ability to shoot 1080p HD VIDEO through your DSLR lenses (albeit with limitations, e.g., no AF), and a price of only $2,700 (at B&H), why would any normal person (i.e., non-pro) even WANT medium format?. For huge prints? Not necessary; when the Smithsonian did their 6-foot high print of my grinning shark photo, that was only an 8-megapixel original (albeit from a very good 8 mp DSLR), and it turned out great!

Frankly, any good current generation DSLR that is 10mp or above can produce nice prints about as large as you want (although when you get up into the really big stuff, it's expensive to have special files that big created for optimal prints).

To give another example of cost/benefit advances, prior to my 5D Mark II, I was using a 1Ds Mark III, which (although it is still their latest model flagship pro model) was three times the price for the same resolution, and considerably larger and more unwieldy. I sold that camera to get the 5D Mark II, and am thus far tickled pink with the 5DII!

So even if the medium format, 40-50 megapixel cameras come down to bargain prices of, say $10,000, it won't be much of an attraction to me. It's like seeing some of the super-bikes that'll go a zillion MPH in nothing flat...I think to myself, "Wow, that's cool!" But I'm not sure I'd be able to get more use from it in the traffic on I-5 than my current bikes. ;)