Top-rack camera achieves an astounding 100 megapixels

Stage One's camera accompanies a sticker price past the span of most buyers, yet its top of the line technology could in the end finds its way into standard cameras. 

Stage One's new XF 100MP broadens the organization's lead over contending cameras. At about $50,000, however, it will probably draw in consideration than clients. 

For the individuals who can pay their way past today's technology restrictions, the new camera catches an exceptional 100-megapixel picture. 

The camera, discharged Sunday, utilizes a medium-configuration picture sensor more than over two times greater than those in even top of the line SLR cameras from standard producers such as Ordinance and Nikon. The size lets picture takers achieve a high determination without giving up different parts of picture quality, for example, the capacity to catch points of interest in both splendid and dull territories of a scene. This implies picture takers can print notice measured pictures that still have bottomless subtle element. 

There is a reason, however, that just Hasselblad, Pentax, Leica and Stage One take the medium-configuration approach: cost. Stage One's new item costs an eye-popping $48,990, which incorporates the camera body, the removable picture sensor and a 80mm Schneider Kreuznach lens. Notwithstanding value, medium-arrangement cameras have another drawback. They are bulkier and heavier than the SLRs that the vast majority as of now leave at home. 

Most picture takers needn't bother with 10 megapixels, considerably less 100. In any case, medium-configuration outlines can create technology that later streams down to standard cameras. What's more, a huge number of photograph aficionados, who frequently as of now have burned through a huge number of dollars on camera gear, seek to higher accomplishments. 

"It's similar to getting amped up for games autos and Recipe 1," Stage One camera draftsman Lau Nørgaard said. "It's fascinating to see where the extremes are, to see what should be possible to get to a definitive picture quality." 

Medium-organization sensors are bigger than those utilized by traditional cameras - 53.7mm x 40.4mm for Stage One's most recent contrasted with 36mm x 24mm for top of the line SLRs. Bigger sensors empower the utilization of bigger pixels that can assemble light all the more adequately for better picture quality, however they likewise expand the span of the camera and lenses, and bigger sensors are drastically more costly. 

Stage One's items are designed for expert picture takers who need to print huge or extremely nitty gritty photographs, generally those taking shots of style models, adornments, watches, autos and structural engineering. Its past top-end sensor had 80 megapixels. 

Group is pursuing Stage One with today's 50-megapixel EOS 5DS cameras, which utilize littler sensors the measure of a casing of 35mm film, and its guaranteed 120-megapixel model. Group additionally has added to a 250-megapixel sensor, however it hasn't reported arrangements to popularize it. Nikon's D810 offers 36 megapixels and Sony's A7R II highlights 42 megapixels. 

The laws of optics posture issues for littler sensors, however, making it harder or unimaginable for even precisely created lenses to convey as much detail as the sensor can catch. Medium-arrangement cameras have more breathing space here. 

It's difficult to go up against Standard and Nikon, however, with endlessly bigger building groups than Stage One's 40 workers, Nørgaard said. He counters that Stage One can move quicker, hand-align every item as it ships, and cook only to top-end clients. 

"We don't need to trade off to meet a specific value," he said.