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Ha.sselblad Soups Up Its 100MP H6D With 400MP Multi-Shot Version.
Recently it seems like smartphones have been having all the fun when it comes to computational imaging tricks. Portrait mode, bokeh, and synthetic telephoto are all the rage. But high-end camera maker Hasselblad doesn’t want to be left out. Its new H6D-400C MS is a multi-shot version of the H6D that couples the company’s 100MP sensor with a camera body that can slightly shift the sensor and lens mount, enabling advanced multi-capture modes that improve color and increase resolution. A six-shot mode provides both a cleaner image and resolution up to 400MP, while a four-shot mode provides a higher-quality 100MP image.

By moving the sensor a single pixel in each direction between the first four shots, the new camera can directly capture Red, Green, and Blue at every location, instead of interpolating two of the three colors at each pixel, like you get from a single capture with a typical Bayer array sensor. That should provide cleaner colors if the alignment and software combined are accurate enough to pull it off. The process obviously requires a very stable shooting platform, and doesn’t allow for any subject motion or any other motion of the camera.

Competitor Phase One has taken a different approach to getting cleaner color, by producing a re-designed set of color filters for its IQ3 100MP Trichromatic. By providing more separation between colors, Phase One claims it has greatly improved the final image. Phase One’s approach has the advantage of not requiring multiple exposures, but until the H6D-400 is available for side by side comparisons, we won’t know which system is more effective for studio shooting.

Hasselblad’s multi-shot camera uses offset images to improve both color and resolution