Hasselblad’s new H3DII-50 may look like an old-school camcorder, but inside is a ridiculously high-definition 50-megapixel sensor capable of producing 65MB images once per second. It’s designed for custom shooting, of course, but for the well-heeled who could afford a camera sure to cost more than $40k, the H3DII-50 will capture every last pore and wrinkle in the faces of your use-once-then-destroy vat-grown harem. Why bother keeping their bodies alive, selfishly consuming resources, when such a lifelike picture will do?
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Can I get an affordable 720p 60fps camera instead?
(I’m more interested in temporal high resolution than spatial resolution. Much of what makes “the iPhone guy” look “creepy” is the high progressive frame rate used in the digital filming.)
Hasselblad produces very high resolution cameras, but they always seem to fall short of other cameras in everything but sheer megapixels. Shooting time, lens compatibility, shutter speed, autofocus speed, etc. consistently fall short of high end models produced by more contemporary brands like Cannon, Nikon, and Olympus.
One of the aspects of a Hasselblad film camera was the fact the film was 80mm, in the digital age we don’t think in terms of millimetre based film anymore, but in megapixels. So they are sticking to form and making hugeo-pixel cameras, with reasonably good lenses, they haven’t in my experience been into all the extras. Keeping to simple ideas but for specific uses. Oh and huge prices, I’ve never seen a Hasselblad camera even in a pawnshop that wasn’t like a month or two of rent for me.
@3, although pixels tend to be the priority, people do still seem to be concerned with sensor size nowadays…
I sell my used “sex-fleshies” to more downmarket, mega-billionaires, personally. You don’t stay rich by wasting things, I say.