Keeping in the spirit of ridiculously cool camera gear, the new Seitz 6×17cm digital panoramic camera is the balls. It’s got a 160 megapixel, 48-bit back (that’s 21,250 × 7,500 pixels), and can use any large format camera lens (Schneiders or Rodenstocks or Linhofs, oh my). I mean come on, it’s got a Mac Mini for flash memory!
It uses a “scanning” back, to pan across the frame and capture the panorama (just like the large format panoramic cameras of yore), but what’s I think is potentially the coolest thing about it is that it’ll be able (in the future) to be used on other large and medium format cameras. Which, as far as I know, would be the first full-frame 6×6 digital back.
Start saving though, it’s $33,000.
- Seitz 6×17 Digital
- Found at Gizmodo