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Comment by Richard Crisp on May 10, 2011 at 7:30am

Yes, 39 megapixels.... one shot color. Deinterlaced as 32 bit FIT color data each raw frame is about 436Megabytes....

the sensor has 6.8 micron pixels in a 36.8 x 49mm format. It was originally designed for a Hasselblad digital camera for their medium format line. It is quite an amazing beast....

have a look at this image taken from it: poke around at the detail on the bridge

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/images/pl39k_gg.jpg

here is a bit more info on the camera

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/proline_39k_color_page.htm

and a "value proposition" analysis

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/PL39000C_value_propositio...

and a technical paper about the design of the sensor:

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/31Mp_and_39Mp_Full-Frame_...