If the battle between the Japanese giants in the market for digital SLR 35mm is always turned on, producers of medium format digital are not watching. After the recent announcements Hasselblad and Phase One, this time it is the turn of Leaf. The American company has always engaged in the professional field of digital photography, announced the new system AFi 10 with a new sensor called “True Wide Frame” from 56 megapixels great 56 × 36mm developed together with Dalsa Corporation.

In combination is the sensor technology Verto Leaf, able to rotate the sensor without having to change the position of the camera. Leaf AFi10 is able to sfornare a picture to the second from 9288 x 6000 pixels, which arrives to weigh nearly 200 mega Tiff format. The sensitivity with which you can take pictures ranging from 50 to 800 ISO and the maximum exposure time is one minute.

The system AFi10 will be available in the last quarter of 2008 with a price that aggirerà around 22mila pounds (about 28mila euro with the current exchange rate).