How To Get 39 Megapixels From a 53-Year-Old Camera

G3ckoG33k writes "An article at The Register Hardware describes how Hasselblad film cameras dating back to 1957 can be given a new life using a digital back to get images at a super resolution of 39 megapixels. From the article: 'The CFV-39 digital back allows you to get those cameras out from the last century and use the V-System cameras with their beautiful glass once again, it simply fits in place of where the roll film used to be. Hasselblads have never been inexpensive, but talk about a return on investment. Here is a manufacturer looking after a fiercely loyal user-base and along with it offering what could be seen as the ultimate green camera system.' Oh, by the way most pictures taken during the Apollo space program in the 1960s were taken with Hasselblad." Hasselblad's been making digital backs for quite a while now, but this one's very impressive in speed (and cost — "only" about $14,000) compared to earlier models.

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So what do you do with a 14k camera...

[Myrcutio]

Step 1: Find old camera
Step 2: Retrofit camera with digital backing
Step 3: Stick now-retrofitted camera into someone's love-hole.
Step 4: ??
Step 5: Profit!

Re:$0.67 per film frame.

[Bigjeff5]

Do you realize how many nasty chemicals are used in film processing, in much, much greater volumes than in a DSLR?

Film does not win the environmentally friendly award, my friend. Not by a long shot.

I don't get viral infections from film.

You also don't get them from digital pictures, what kind of dumbass makes this claim while posting from a computer?

My camera will also work after an EMP - I doubt yours will, and I also doubt your digital pictures will remain intact after such an event.

And exactly how many EMPs do you experience in your lifetime? And so long as the DSLR is turned off, it will survive an EMP just fine. EMPs only kill things that are powered up - and I don't know what kind of pictures you'll be taking during a nuclear blast but your camera will be toast if it's in range of the EMP anyway.