[Js @ Jan 25th 2007 3:29PM]

They need to do something radical with the way image sensor chips and and cameras are architected .. the readout should happen much faster on parallel readout pins (this would mean radically increasing the number of pinouts on a image sensor chip). And the memory chips/banks should also be parallelized so that you can break up the stream of data into chunks so that it can be written to multiple chips simultaneously. Otherwise the time to write data to a single chip would exceed the amount of data available. And yea, I know.

[EnhanceYourCalm @ Jan 25th 2007 4:30PM]

Js,
"RAID"ing the data output across multiple memory devices is certainly interesting. In fact, this is more or less what's going on with Panasonic's P2 Memory PCMCIA card format for its HD cameras.

However, there would obviously be some severe workflow issues - without some sort of unified off-camera backplane, the only way to ingest images would be a direct camera connection to a workstation. I suppose this isn't a big deal considering the 'blads are quite often shot tethered.

Now it would be really interesting to see an eSATA connection on these Med. Fmt. bodies...

As a side note, Hasselblad REALLY ticked off a lot of folks with the H3D. It no longer supports third-party backs, as I understand. Here's hoping the Rollei Hy6 system is all it can and should be...