DICOMED BIG SHOT COLOUR
by John Henshall
At the top end of digital image capture, the $55,000 Dicomed Big Shot 6x6cm back for Hasselblad - now available in full color - produces the highest resolution 'instant' digital images yet seen. Dicomed are not yet satisfied with the liquid crystal tunable filter and have applied RGB filters to their 16 megapixel chip in the meantime.
Dicomed's prototype battery operated belt pack storage for the Big Shot.
Dicomed again allowed me to take over their stand and make this picture. Well it was the last day of the show! So 'The Photographer' is once more the first to bring you not only the news but a real picture taken using this important new product.
The Dicomed Big Shot Color's user interface.
After pressing the ELX shutter release there is a wait of three to four seconds before the preview (top left in the screen grab) appears on screen. If you like the shot, full processing of the image then takes a further 30 seconds.
If being tethered to a computer doesn't appeal to you, Dicomed are planning a battery operated belt pack which will record thirty compressed 36 bit images from the Big Shot on an Iomega Jaz (1GB) drive.
To view a higher resolution version of this image taken on the Dicomed Big Shot (20% of original size), together with a section at 100%, click on the thumbnail:
