If 50 megapixel camera is not enough, Phase One has gone a step further and announced their 60.5 megapixel camera. The obvious class targeted here are professional photographers who want the tiniest detail in their 8,984 x 6,732 pixel photograph. The P 65+ is the first Full Frame 645 Medium Format Camera which also boasts the largest live viewfinder at 53.9mm x 40.4mm. The camera is also equipped with Sensor+ CCD which gives the photographer the benefits of higher sensitivity, dynamic range and improved capture rates.

If you want to enjoy this gift of technology, get ready to cough up $39,990 when this comes in Q4 of this year.

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[Via Bornrich]

Hasselblad, makers of professional cameras has taken photography to a new height with the introduction of H3DII-50. Equipped with Kodak sensor, the total megapixel count goes up to 50. According to them, at 50 million pixels, or megapixels, the sensor can capture digital images with unprecedented resolution and detail. For instance, with a 50 megapixel camera, in an aerial photo of a field 1-½ miles across, you could detect an object about the size of a small notebook computer (1 foot by 1 foot).

Other features of H3DII-50 include photo capturing a 1 FPS, hardware supports a maximum of ISO 400 which can be upped by Phocus software to ISO 800. CF cards or ImageBank II are the available storage options. Expected to cost a hefty $37000.

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[Via Electronista|Kodak]

BenQ has come up with T850 camera which claims to be the world’s slimmest measuring just 14.9mm. It is an 8 megapixel shooter cam with PENTAX Lens, 1600 ISO support, 3x optical zoom, a 3-inch touchscreen display and some features like Smile recognition, face tracking and swipe interface just like we have on iPhone. It will be available soon in China and other countries at a undisclosed price.

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As Olympics draws nearer, you’ll find more products trying to cash in on the event. The latest addition to this is Kodak’s Olympic themed M2008 10 megapixel shooter. This one’s specially made for China with Beijing 2008 written on the device. Don’t expect more from it as it does all the functions just like any other digital camera.

It is priced at $270. More pics after the break.

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An entry level camera has been announced by Sony. It is a 7 megapixel shooter, Cyber-shot DSC-S730 which has 3X optical zoom, a crisp 2.4-inch LCD and ISO sensitivity upto 1250. It also has autofocus to help the users to take better pictures. Apart from that it also records videos at 30FPS which can be stored on its internal memory (22MB) or on Memory Stick Duo/Memory Stick PRO Duo.

The camera will be released in second week of January in Europe.

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Aven Inc.’s new product will definitely help people doing microscopic studies. Their new offering called as miniVUE Digital Camera will enable the researchers to take live pictures and videos of minute species. As Aven says it is the world’s first digital color camera for microscopy and video inspection, it boasts a 3.1 megapixel camera to capture, a 2-inch LCD display and SD card support. Apart from mounting on the microscope, MiniVUE can be connected to USB or its images can be viewed on a larger screen with the TV Out feature.

Priced at $995.

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Sony is expected to release this unnamed DSLR in the Alpha range soon. The camera pictured, looks like a press shot and will include features like 12.8 megapixel, anti shake capability, light sensitivity up to 3,200 ISO and clicks 10 frames per second in JPEG mode.

[Via Wired]

At a Kodak design exhibition, Lindsey Pickett showed up a digital camera concept crammed up in a photo locket. Dubbed as Kodak 1881, it doubles up as a fashion accessory and when tapped, it snaps up a still image. Opening the locket, it features a dual LCD and displays a slideshow of the photos taken.

[Via Yanko|Engadget]

I would rather term it as an unnecessary feature but a unique one, Samsung unveils a digital camera which has a 180^o rotating screen. The VLUU i7 has a 7.2 megapixel lens and apart from photography capabilities it can do music and video, dictionary, a travel guide and a text viewer.

[Via Akihabara]

Remember iLoupe? No. Alright. It’s a digital camera clubbed with microscopic lens which can take snaps of those fugly looking micro organsims. The iLoupe comes in two options; a Starter or a Pro. The prices of both packs come to $955 & $1455 respectively after a mail-in rebate. Both the packs consists of a 6 megapixel Canon SD600 digital camera along with a 60X objective lens in the starter and two more lenses of 100X and 150X are included in a pro pack. I reckon that’s expensive but that’s what you have to pay for when you want to take the pic of the bacteria stuck on your car’s steering wheel.

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