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I keep getting emails that begin “If you thought you couldn’t afford a Hasselblad, then think again…” The basic premise is that if I thought that the H3D was out of my budget, then I was wrong. It is now ONLY $17,999.00. Does the marketing department at Hasselblad think that this is a good sales pitch. Do they really think that $18,000 is affordable? They have just announced a new upgrade to the H3D camera that now gives it a 50 Megapixel sensor, available in October. The sensor is made by Kodak which I think is excellent as it means Kodak could seriously be making the transition from film a little better than Polaroid. Images shot at full resolution will be 6132×8176 which is enormous. I would love to play with this camera for a few days, owning it would be impossible and an investment that is sure to depreciate so quickly. I imagine renting it would be the way to go. I found the 39 megapixel one for $500 a day or $2000 a week here.

Hasselblad actually have a really good and interesting website (if you are a camera nerd like myself). One of my favorite parts is the Hasselblad in space section where they show all of the cameras that have traveled into space and more importantly to the surface of the moon. Below is one that was used on 20 July 1969 by Neil Armstrong to take the first lunar landing pictures. Annoyingly, the cameras never returned to earth as they were left on the surface of the moon and only the film backs were taken back.