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LF: 8x10 digital $200,000 or perhaps $500,000 10 MP! would you believe it!

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Techcrunch.com said:
Mitchell Feinberg is a photographer who specializes in taking beautiful photographs of very expensive things. Cars, luxury goods, wristwatches, that sort of thing. He shoots on 8×10 film, which is expensive enough that you generally want to get it right the first time. So he shoots test shots on instant 8×10 Polaroid film to make sure the exposure and focus are right. At $15 a pop, 7 or 8 test shots per photo, and dwindling supplies of the Polaroid film itself (though the Impossible Project is looking to remake it), it became evident to Feinberg that he couldn’t continue doing things that way
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What's nonsense about this is that the cost of the Polaroid 8x10 is not the issue here. It simply is not available, or at least not for $15 a sheet!

Techcrunch.com said:
So what did he do? No, he didn’t buy a Leaf or Hasselblad. He decided he’d commission the world’s biggest color digital back. After some haggling and assurances that yes, he was serious, a prototype was put together in Februrary of 2010 and the production unit delivered in early 2011.

He calls it the Maxback. It’s fully 8×10″; for comparison, Hasselblad’s best digital back, the CFV-50, is 36.7×49.1mm. Feinberg says the largest available backs are about 4.5x6cm.
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look here to see a comparison to show you how that compares with the Maxback.
 
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Mike Shimwell

New member
INteresting job, and amusing that his website incudes a category 'non-essentials' amongst the jewellery, cosmetics, accessories and advertising:)

Mike
 
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Ruben Alfu

New member
Anyone with enough money can buy the latest, most expensive equipment on the market, for me the beauty of a custom made job like this is to see technology working for the needs and artistic vision of one individual, no commercial give and take.
 
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