http://photothunk.blogspot.com/2018/08/phase-one-camera-for-photographers-who.html#comment-form
From the brilliant and un-opinionated mind of Andrew Molitor. His blog is now on my list of:
I-went-there-but-he-didn't-post-anything-new-for-the-last-couple-of-days-so-I-kept-going-back-until-there-was-new-content-and-I-read-it-and-went-away-feeling-smarter.
And sometimes I think he may be even more cynical than 1.
Don't trip over the profanity --- my lawyer sez I'm not responsible. For anything which may happen anywhere.....
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I have to admit that once it started writing itself in my brain I couldn't sleep until I got out of bed and wrote it down. McDonald's iced coffee in the late afternoon apparently makes me furious at the world, and an insomniac.
Looking at the Phase One website, I suspect the demand for these new sensors is coming from their Cultural Heritage (digitization of works at libraries and museums) and Aerial Mapping markets. Then, once they developed the sensors, they figured they might as well put them into their consumer cameras, too. I’ll bet the Library of Congress will be buying some of these.
Your link to amolitor’s stimulating photothunk blogspot is most welcome to those of the VSL cultural persuasion.
Molitor mixes outrage, ranting and intellect to make a tasty stew.
A brilliant and f***ing hysterically funny article. Thank you so much for sharing this, Kirk!
I think David is right. The market for these is not just professional photographers who take photos where photos are the end product (i.e. artists). The market is people who take photos as a means to an end, e.g. rapid computer-based visual inspection of manufactured parts in the aerospace industry, or mapping or archiving as David has mentioned.
I think (I agree) the bread and butter for P1 is the aerial cameras (and to a lesser extent repro), to be honest. More pixels translates very very directly into less flying time. The earnout on a $50,000 camera system over a $5000 system is measured in hours, and there's no upper limit on the number of pixels that can be put in play here.
I have speculated in the past that the amateur cameras are just an easy addon where you can make a few bucks for basically no effort. Which isn't quite true, just the product management and marketing for something like the XF eco-system is going to run you some real money. But the R&D costs are pretty much zeroed out, which definitely gives you a leg up.
What - the trichromatic back is only 100Mp, compared to the 150Mp achromatic back!
It has dual cards, but one is QXD and one is only SD - what is P1 thinking!
And we thought the Mp wars were over..
I’m holding out for 500Mp.
Cheers,
Not THAT Ross Cameron
Thank God I had an empty coffee cup. As it was I laughed myself into a coughing fit (Mentally insert expletives at appropriate intervals).
Thanks for the link to the Photos and stuff blog, Priceless!
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