6x17 digital is here with 160Mpixels !

<p>Wow !! Seitz 160Mpixel scanning camera that takes Linhof Lenses. </br>There is also a 470Mpixel

Roundshot (which makes my 28/220 look like a toy) </p>

<img src="http://www.roundshot.ch/pictures/Seitz-6x17-handheld.jpg">

<p> More info on the <a href="http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/

f934.cfm"> Seitz website </a>

<p>A bit large though - but that lets it go upto ISO 10,000</p>

<p> spotted by <a href="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/new/index.shtml"/>luminous-landscape

</p>

I think it would make a great street photography camera,if it came in Black.

Does it have a flip-out LCD? Looks great for hip shots.

b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-ut.....damn!

hmmm, I dont see the strap eyelets on both sides ... wondering how long one can walk with it without a shoulder strap ... oh yeah, use a camera bag, of course, it gotta be a really BIG good one for that.

Hand held with a maximum shutter speed of half a second????

Is that 6x17 cm or 6x17 inches. The camera is almost 20 inches wide.

That seems to me to be a lot larger than required.

"Hand held with a maximum shutter speed of half a second?"

 

That's just the time needed to shuttle the sensor from one side to another. I believe the stated actual minimum exposure time per pixel is something like 1/20000sec.

 

I just checked out their web site. They've actually have panos of people surfing. Pretty awesome for a scanning back!

 

Hmmm.. I'd bet you could get some pretty interesting effects photographing something that traverses the imaging frame in that same 1/2 sec.

"takes Linhof Lenses"

 

Linhof don't, and have never, made lenses. They simply badged those from Rodenstock and Schneider.

</a>I want one. I may wait unitl the price drops down to twenty thousand euros though. Heh

heh. I like Robert's idea - a wave would look pretty good maybe - I also like the idea of

putting it on that 1/20,000 setting and then taking it for a bungee jump

or something..........

 

:o)

You'd keep the SWAT squad pretty busy if you lug that monster around on the streets.

I think it would produce jaw dropping portraits :-( )

 

It's a shame the did not make a small portable lower cost digital version of the 28/220, which

is about the same size as a German WWII stick grenade, with a 4000 pixel linear CCD. Maybe

next Photokina. My 9950F scanner now has banding problems :-(

 

It takes various lenses including Linhof's 6x17 Technorama lenses. Okay, Linhof mounts

containing Schneider LF lenses, but I would have thought it's valid to say 'Linhof ' lenses, just

as 'Hasselblad' lenses are made by Zeiss or Fuji.<div></div>

30,000 euros and it doesn't even have a built in flash......

It is a great idea, coupled with a Linhof 6x17 for those images that need fast shutter speed. But it is too big, and a tad too expensive. I wonder when Epson will make a scanning back or camera, using their scanner technology. Doesn't have to be 160 Mp. 40 or 60 would be fine.

It will probably just fit into a Billingham 550 bag.

Yes, that one shot looks a lot like the guy is sightin a shoulder fired missle. Ought to give security guards nightmares.

I can't help thinking that with these panoramic cameras that the picture is just being cropped down. My 612 produced a photo of a river panoramic where you can see the fish as well as detail a 100 metres away!