No, this isn't for porn, it's probably for fashion photography.
And to anybody who thinks this is a "lot" of money for fashion photo...a common camera for doing fashion photography costs $35,000+. This is a different niche, but in the same realm of dollar figures.
(If you're curious what a truly "high end" digital camera looks like, google Hasselblad, Mamiya and Phase One.)
> anybody who thinks this is a "lot" of money for fashion photo...a common camera for doing fashion photography costs $35,000+
the money spent on hi-end fashion shoots isn't in cameras. leased/bought equipment works for itself hundreds of times, and when you do the math for cost per shoot, the camera would probably be one of the cheapest items on the expense list after coffee.
> No, this isn't for porn, it's probably for fashion photography.
Maybe they want something shot with the product falling in midair, or a model with a fan blowing his/her hair and clothing? Or it could be some appliance/machine that they want to capture in action (a popcorn popper would be a mundane example).
Heck, maybe they just want to shoot a product sitting in the middle of a cloud from a fog machine.
the only kind of studio photography that comes to my mind where you don't work with your legs, keep camera in a constant position and don't want any drop shadows is packshots. the setup is basically a huge light box with more cameras. probably for some crazy demos.
I can't imagine why somebody would shoot people with 50 cameras constantly leveled up on the same height. maybe for one experimental project, but what next.
This thing has massive 54x40 mm sensor VS current full frames which have "only" 36x24 mm. That's 2.5 times bigger sensor than full frame! And that's 60 mega pixels. One thing that pops out is ISO which is listed only at 800 (vs Canikon's 32000) so I assume these cameras are designed for very bright light studios and to yield minimal amount of noise possible.
Indeed. There's the world of 35mm cameras, which is what full frame digital SLRs are (think Canon 1D X and 5D III, and Nikon D4 and D800, having a sensor fo 36x24mm). Many digital SLRs have cropped sensors — the Canon 7D, 60D and 600D have a sensor that is 1.6 times smaller than a full frame (22.2x15.8mm). More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-frame_digital_SLR
The next level of cameras is medium format, which are vastly more expensive and have much larger sensors. They're generally used for studio work, where light isn't a problem. They're popular for fashion and product photography.
Then you move up to large format cameras with even larger sensors, although most of these still use film (but digital backs are available, and tend to have hundreds of megapixels). Large format cameras are still popular for landscape photography.
high iso is for where people move - journalism and sports. model shots are low iso, because you use lighting anyway (natural or/and artificial) and the quality needs to be perfect.
> This thing has massive 54x40 mm sensor VS current full frames
because it's a medium format camera which by definition is bigger than full frame.
No, this isn't for porn, it's probably for fashion photography.
And to anybody who thinks this is a "lot" of money for fashion photo...a common camera for doing fashion photography costs $35,000+. This is a different niche, but in the same realm of dollar figures.
(If you're curious what a truly "high end" digital camera looks like, google Hasselblad, Mamiya and Phase One.)