That headline is not a typo. With a 100MP single-shot sensor that can combine 6 images to create 400MP resolution images, the Hasselblad H6D-400C offers breathtaking features and a moon-high price to match. Designed primarily as a studio camera, the H6D-400c may not be affordable to 99% of photographers to buy. In fact, for most photographers, both the $47,000-plus price and resolution are overkill. But Hasselblad has a very specific audience—and rentals.
Key features:
- USB 3.0 type c connection for tethered shooting, high-speed data transfers & 30FPS live view
- Dual media card slots: CFast 2.0 and SD card
- 3.0-inch touch rear display
- Smartphone style user interface
- HD & UHD video
- Modular system with improved back removal process
- Technical camera connectivity (single shot)
- Wi-Fi
- HDMI & Audio I/O
- True Focus II
Does Anyone Really Need That Much Resolution?
As Hasselblad explains it, multi-shot capture has become an industry standard in the field of art reproduction and cultural heritage for the documentation of paintings, sculptures, and artwork. They call it the only professional medium format system to feature multi-shot technology, which may appeal to institutions, organizations, and museums worldwide who want to record historic treasures in the highest image quality possible.
With an effective resolution of 400MP via 6-shot image capture or 100MP resolution in either 4 shot Multi-Shot capture or single shot mode, the Multi-Shot capture requires the sensor and its mount to be moved at a high-precision of 1 or ½ a pixel at a time via a piezo unit. To capture Multi-Shot images the camera must be tethered to a PC or MAC.
In 400MP Multi-Shot mode, 6 images are captured, the first 4 involve moving the sensor by one pixel at a time to achieve real color data, this cycle then returns the sensor to its starting point. A further two exposures are made by moving the sensor by ½ a pixel horizontally and then ½ a pixel vertically. These 6 captures are then merged to give the equivalent of a single 400MP image, delivered as a 2.4GB 16-bit TIFF (23200 x 17400 pixels), for those seeking the utmost in image quality and resolving power.
The Hasselblad H6D-400c joins the Hasselblad H6D, a single shot camera, and adds to that the resolution and color fidelity leaps that only Multi-Shot photography can bring to image capture.
Now about that price: The Hasselblad H6D-400C MS will ship in March at a list price of . Adorama is accepting pre-orders now.
