Have you ever wanted to own a camera that was as tall as your head, three times as wide, and could take pictures at a resolution of 160 megapixels, then you can place a pre-order for the Seitz 6X17 Digital for the low low low low low price of only 45,500 Swiss Francs ($36,354.51 in the US, sez the handy Currency Gadget.)

This baby takes photos in the aforementioned resolution of 160 megapixels (21,250 x 7,500), which equates to about 1 gigabyte per image. “What could possibly be used to store the pictures that you take with this thing?” you may ask. Well, it’s not those new CompactFlash cards that are going to be released soon. It’s not even going to be stored in the camera. Instead, you’ll lug a modified Mac Mini around with you (seen at left) and transfer all pictures to it as they are taken using gigabit Ethernet. Yes, folks, you are no longer a true photographer unless your pictures are transferred to a computer over a network grade cable. That means no FireWire, USB, or smoke signal.

The touch screen used on the camera weighs in at 640 x 480, and can be detached from the camera to allow for remote control. This makes one wonder how much battery life something like this has. One would then realize that the most logical way to power a camera of this grade is to plug it directly into your own personal nuclear reactor.

Each camera is “hand made” and “unique” which, while they sound good when talking about art, just don’t seem to have that same “added value” when dealing with electronics, quite unlike “quotation marks,” which can make even the Playstation 3 an impulse buy.

Here you can see just how huge this monster is.

You may wonder why I started blogging again with something that has absolutely nothing to do with what is normally written about here at Deep Thought. Well you can keep wondering because it shall remain a mystery, even to me. I have picked “because I lol’d” as a tentative answer. You might get a better one after I do some soul trapping searching in Oblivion. After that, you’ll probably get a blog entry about how much I think Apple rushed iTunes 7.

I would also like to with fellow writer UnnDunn a Happy Birthday. How do I know? He’s still registered on the XvsXP forums, which has a birthday feature.