This $15,500 Device Turns Your Vintage Hasselblad Into a Digital Camera
The CFV-50C digital camera back takes incredible pictures and brings old-school photography into the now—but makes you work for it
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Basic digital cameras have gotten really, really good over the past few years.
That tiny shooter sitting in your smartphone is leaps and bounds better than the highest-end digital cameras from just five years ago. But if you want to go crazy, a whole world is devoted to the pixel-based descendants of medium- and large-format photography. This is the stuff of National Geographic covers and Calvin Klein billboards. While it's not a complete camera on its own, Hasselblad's CFV-50C digital back is an attachment that turns vintage cameras and lenses into high-resolution digital cameras that compete with today's very best analog ones.