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September 23, 2006

Seitz 160 Megapixel Camera!

While most digital camera makers are making their cameras smaller and smaller Seitz has decided to go in another direction. They have just released a camera that is 19” x 6” x 3” and weighs 6lbs. The advantage to the rather large size is the ability to take 6 x 17 panoramas at 160 megapixels.

This camera is not for your average consumer though, with a price tag of $36,266 for the mobile version and $33,715 for the studio version. The camera has an ISO range from 500 to 10,000, a read-out speed of 300MB per second and a ridiculously fast shutter speed of 1/20,000th of a second.


One rather large problem for the rather large camera is the size of the photos. Each picture takes up about 1 gigabyte, so storage of more than a few shots is a challenge. The solution is that the camera sends photos right to a specifically configured Mac Mini via gigabit Ethernet.

Press Release

Posted by eric at September 23, 2006 10:11 PM