I have been following their development on the 4x5 and 8x10 sensor.
There are a lot of bells and whistles like deep neural net software to add more resolution to the capture. High numbers of network connection for users, video capture, etc. As a professional sw engineer in ML and data intensive discipline, every one of these features require a lot of r&d resource and domain experts to deliver high quality product. I see that this company needs a hw engineer, embedded system engineer, UI software engineer, data processing engineer, etc. none of them comes cheap.
I have my double that this is a well funded and well resourced company. If that’s the case, there are a lot of effort spent on non essential features to the large format folks.
25k to spend on 6mp very large and ‘very clean’ pixels for 4x5. I see that the lower end hasselblad and p1 back being superior in both hardware and software offering.
I am their ideal customer based but I don’t see unique upside of this product over the blad and p1..
I hope they find an industrial application to keep funding this effort so I might eventually get a high MP 4x5 and 8x10 digital sensor system that doesn’t require a truck and dolly to haul around.
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