This has been a big month for big-time cameras. First we we first saw the Hasselblad H3DII-50 and its whopping 50-megapixel sensor, which was topped the following week by the Phase One’s P65+. The Leaf AFi 10 medium format camera falls in the middle of the war over sensor-size with a 56x36mm TWF sensor that cranks out a 56 megapixel resolution across the entire width of the 6×6 sensor area.
Unlike the other cameras, it also features proprietary “Verto” technology that rotates the sensor internally, so you don’t have to turn the camera when you want to take a portrait shot. Other than that, the AFi 10 captures images at about 1 second per frame and it can shoot up to ISO800. Oh, and it’s even more expensive than the Phase One P65+ at US$43,700. [Leaf via Photography Blog via DVICE]
Nobody Special
Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 1:40 PMGeese!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!! A Gazillion megapixels!!! Wow!!!!!! I read recently that a ‘landscape photographer’ went into the field with some big format megazillion camera and brought along a small GENERATOR to charge the batteries!!!! Please,,,,,,make it stop!!!
So yes, it’s a cool camera that can’t leave a power station, like most magezillion cameras. How about a stripped down model that can still use FILM so photographers who venture forth across the planet needn’t worry about such baggage? That is also reasonably affordable. Oh wait – how about a camera that isn’t obsolete 12 months after you buy it? Oh wait, here’s an idea, a camera that has a shutter that you have to wind manually,,,oh, forget it.
Nobody Special
Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 6:06 AMNobody Special
Posted September 11, 2008 1:40 PM
Geese!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!! A Gazillion megapixels!!! Wow!!!!!! I read recently that a ‘landscape photographer’ went into the field with some big format megazillion camera and brought along a small GENERATOR to charge the batteries!!!! Please,,,,,,make it stop!!!
So yes, it’s a cool camera that can’t leave a power station, like most magezillion cameras. How about a stripped down model that can still use FILM so photographers who venture forth across the planet needn’t worry about such baggage? That is also reasonably affordable. Oh wait – how about a camera that isn’t obsolete 12 months after you buy it? Oh wait, here’s an idea, a camera that has a shutter that you have to wind manually,,,oh, forget it.