Attached Link: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=newsletter3_06&A=getItemDetail&Q=&sku=437387&is=REG

This is interesting...well, interesting indeed.  The new Hasselblad 39 mg digital back slr is only about $30,000 US.              hooopa!      TomDart.

Cool! I didn't want that new car anyway... ;]

Thanks for the link.:o) I believe kodak makes the image sensor (ccd) Phase one also has a 39 Megapixel back. Oh, here's something you might like. http://www.dalsasemi.com/news/news.asp?itemID=252

I have heard of digital backs for view cameras...large and very, very expensive.  Anyway, thought it was interesting.  For me, I would likely be wasting about 29mg with the Hass.  At least with my Nikon my chest is not sore from being banged with the cam.   That happened once with one of the older Hasselblad models (borrowed for the day) while in a tourist town..got stares from folks with cameras (digital was not going on back then) but also got a sore chest.  These med formats are heavy, solid rigs. 

:tongue2:  Its is the eye behind the camera..the eye behind the camera..the eye...

Now this would be nice to own...but for a hobby...well..

Nice camera but 39 megapixel! :blink: Now all we need is a 500Gb memory card and we'll be able to take at least ... well ... 36 exposures? :lol:

LOL! Now I'm trying to work it out. My FZ7 averages around 3 Meg per jpg at 6 megapixels and best quality, so working forward from there I figure at 39 megapixels that's around 19.5 Meg per jpg! :blink: I don't even want to think about how big the RAW files will be!

Imagine if Hasselblad were like other manufacturers and supplied you with a 16 Meg memory card in the box! :lol:

Seriously though, this camera must be awsome for pro work!

Agree..for pro work, government work, somewhere where the company purchases the camera and the computer to use with it!...and the memory to hold the images.

 

"I figure at 39 megapixels that's around 19.5 Meg per jpg!"

Don't think you'll find it does jpegs

 78mb RAW files.

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BTW, they have a new 100 MP sensor now. Scary to think about the file sizes there...

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With those kinda file sizes your best off shooting tethered. Kort, I guess you didn't see my first post. http://www.dalsasemi.com/news/news.asp?itemID=252 Here is the Phase One P45. http://www.phaseone.com/Content/p1digitalbacks/P%2045.aspx Kodak makes the CCD for the P45/P30. [ http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/content/Kodak-Creates-Highest-Resolution-Imaging-Sensor-to-Date.htm](http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/content/Kodak-Creates-Highest-Resolution-Imaging-Sensor-to-Date.htm)

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/dpq/site/SENSORS/name/KAF-39000_product

• Image storage: CF card type II (write speed >20 MB/sec), New Image Bank 80 GB external hard drive or tethered to Mac or PC
• Storage capacity: Over 1500 images with 80 GB disk

So..it will take almost two seconds to store an image...not awful..but not for quick action images..

The Image bank sound like the best option..

Storage space is gettng smaller and cheaper every day..I think the camera is a little ahead of it's time..But a good glimpse into the future of DSLR's....

Cool link..thanks for sharing this

I will have to talk to the boss nicely lol, don’t think he will stretch to one of those, oh well lol

 

Yeh not really an action camera, it’s a large format digital, best suited to landscapes and the like. Don’t think you will see many of thse (or their film counterparts) at the Grand Prix.

 

If you are looking for a machine gun, the canon 1D MK II is what you need!

 

If you are on a budget there is always the H2 at a mere 22 MP :D

 

Purely speculation but even at 20MB per second write, you will be looking a 4 seconds (maybe more)with the write speed sustained transfer rate drop off, the 20MB p/s is a best case scenario, in reality unlikely to be the actual speed.

Lovely piece of dream kit though, will be cheap as chips in 18 months or somthing lol technology waits for no one.