always get a thrill when some company comes out of left field and trumps the rest of the industry (even if it's in a specialized niche market). This is about to happen at Photokina with the introduction by Swiss company Seitz (makers of Roundshot) of their Seitz 6x17 Digital, a 6X17 scanning camera.

Scanning, not one shot, you say? Not interested? Well, how about the fact that it is a 160 Megapixel camera generating a 21,250 pixel by 7,500 pixel image(
to je cca 180x60cm pri 300dpi...kokos...), that produces an almost 1 Gigabyte 48 bit file, and uses a custom Dalsa chip to generate an image in just a half second! Yes, I thought you might be interested. Oh yes, and it uses standard large format lenses when they are mounted in a Seitz helical mount. The camera will become available in January 2007 with a price of 28,900 Euro for the field version.





http://www.luminous-landscape.com/new/index.shtml

http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f934.cfm