Shopping For A New Camera?
The new Seitz 6×17 Digital is a scanning back 160 megapixel digital camera and costs 28,900 Euros (just under AUD$50,000). That price doesn’t include any lenses.
The full-resolution images are 21,250 x 7,500 pixels, and the resulting files are about 950 MB uncompressed. Even though it’s a scanning back, it can shoot a full resolution 6×17 panorama in under half a second – that’s a massive improvement over previous scanning back cameras that took a minute or more per shot.
Check out this photo of a guy holding one – I don’t think this thing will fit comfortably in your pocket.
I find the fact that there’s a market for someone to commercially produce a camera like this amazing. How awesome would it be to have a legitimate use for it?!