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And just when 12 megapixel cameras were starting to become all the news

Hasselblad's new H2D-39 D-SLR is the first true 39 megapixel digital camera in the world. It is based on Hasselblad's existing H2 digital camera and is compatible with the company's H System lenses and V camera lenses. 

The camera's CCD sensor is more than twice the size of conventional 35mm camera sensors (36.7 x 49.0 mm). At maximum resolution, the images captured by the H2D-39 in Hasselblad's proprietary 3F RAW format are 78MB large (50MB with lossless compression).

The camera features a 2.2” OLED display, a FireWire 800 interface, support for CF media and an optional Image Bank 80GB external hard drive. The H2D-39 is also expandable thanks to its i-Adapter interchangeable camera interface.  The CF-39, CF-39MS and CFH-39 digital-back modules allow the user to tailor the camera to his or her shooting parameters. Also featured is the company's digital APO correction (DAC) which diminishes the effects of color abberations and provides a fuller, more life-like picture. The camera captures images in 16-bit formats and supports ISO ranges 50, 100, 200 and 400.

Preliminary pricing for the different digital-backs are as follows (in US dollars):

H2D-39 - $32,000
CF-39 - $33,000
CFH-39 - $33,000
CF-39MS - $40,000


More about the H2D-39 can be found here.

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ah-buh
By Houdani on 1/13/2006 11:40:18 AM , Rating: 3
*blink* ... *blink*

Any chance they give you a free car with every purchase?




RE: ah-buh
By DigitalFreak on 1/13/2006 12:02:58 PM , Rating: 3
No, but I think it comes with a 16MB CF card... :-)


RE: ah-buh
By ninjit on 1/13/2006 12:50:40 PM , Rating: 3
hahaha, nice.

I wonder who really needs that much resolution?


RE: ah-buh
By alexx904 on 1/13/2006 2:33:19 PM , Rating: 2
That's a professional camera. Resolution does not really matter as much as a quality of the optics anyway. Hasseblad is a studio camera. Just imagine if Playboy buys it... :P


RE: ah-buh
By losttime on 1/13/2006 2:43:53 PM , Rating: 2
There are photographers out there that love medium format photography and will not switch to a DSLR no matter how much good the resulution gets.

Reasons are many and take more words than I think is fair to fill the site with.


RE: ah-buh
By mpeny on 1/13/2006 5:21:49 PM , Rating: 2
Every fashion magazine is pretty much shot on medium and large format and not 35mm. Madison Ave/Times Square billboards are shot with large formats also.

Its like video cameras. While you may buy a $2000 video camera, professionals for TV and film use $70,000 camera with a $30,000 lense (some lense cost more than the camera).



MEH
By Zelvek on 1/14/2006 6:28:47 PM , Rating: 2
can we even see that much resolution? realy what is this crap; the whole tech industry right now seems stuck in a mode of pushing nummbers bigger and bigger. eg blu-ray (200 GIG come on) we need to spend more on the calculations the software the encoders not this crap.




RE: MEH
By Jedi2155 on 1/16/2006 1:05:40 AM , Rating: 2
You can if you enlarge the picture to a billboard size.


RE: MEH
By andrep74 on 1/17/2006 11:10:05 PM , Rating: 2
"the whole tech industry right now seems stuck in a mode"???

That's one of the most laughable statements I've ever heard, especially considering this is (originally part of) a tech site that's been around for a long time. No, this is nothing new.

If your argument is whether the human eye can distinguish that level of resolution, then of course the answer is "it depends"...what you're looking for, and how you're looking for it. If you've seen the movie Blade Runner, where Harrison Ford zooms in _and around_ a photograph: it's apparently printed at a resolution much higher than the human eye could see, and it was slightly holographic so he could look _around_ objects to a certain extent.

So, if a picture is blown up several times (as in advertising) or needs to be archival quality (where future presentation formats are unknown) then that many pixels is not enough.


RE: MEH
By hillieo on 1/19/2006 5:20:13 PM , Rating: 2
I'm currently shooting with professional slide film
and high quality Nikon F100 and great lenses, but, for
some of the shots that I take of primates in High Montane
Forests, even then I will switch to medium format just to
zoom in on some of the smallest creatures that I didn't see
the first time in the lense. When this technolgy filters
down to the single digit $1000's, I'll be first in line.

Hillie O'


RE: MEH
By aliasfox on 1/20/2006 4:44:50 PM , Rating: 2
A simple 11 x17 spread at 300 dpi (for example, Playboy) is nearly 17 megapixels. Considering that many prints are larger than 11x17 and that 300 dpi is merely the baseline standard for professional printing, 39 megapixels is truly only starting to scratch the surface on detail, especially considering that pretty much everything in the printing industry is cropped in one form or another.

Now if only they could get noise down in digital point and shoot cameras... I'd love to be able to shoot nice 10 MP photos at ISO 800 or 1600 without the images looking like they come from an over-the-air TV singal (exaggeration, but you get the idea).


price not a surprise
By RamboZZo on 1/16/2006 4:15:55 PM , Rating: 2
To anyone who is familiar with professional photagraphic equipment the price is not exactly a surpirse. Hasselblad cameras have always been VERY expensive, digital or not. Even at 39MP I don't know how well it will match the definition offered by medium and large format film camera's.




RE: price not a surprise
By francois d on 1/17/2006 6:33:31 AM , Rating: 3
With a professional scanner (imacon), you can get more than 40 millions pixels from a 35 mm negative. So, you should get even more from a medium and large format film.
I'm using a nikon D2X, and I'm glad it has 12 millions pixels. I can reframe the shot digitally, to make some close-ups. Every pixel is worthy. I'm pretty sure that we would benefit from a 100 millions pixels camera.


.
By hoppa on 1/13/2006 2:16:02 PM , Rating: 2
Not the first. Phase One shipped their P45 last month (with the same chip). It should be noted I think that this is just a digital medium format back, not a whole digital camera. You mount the back to a MF body, and then of course you need a lens (though I think they are selling as well a bundle, if anyone was in the market ;)

To the guy who said who needs this much resolution, well, apparently a great many people, as these things tend to sell out long before they've even been released.




RE: .
By losttime on 1/13/2006 2:38:53 PM , Rating: 2
I believe the H2D is not merely a Hasselblad camera back but the full digital camera. The other "CF" devices though are digital camera backs for the traditional Hasselblad cameras. Could be wrong though.


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