I wonder how many 50mp multishot cameras were made and sold?
I believe quite some... Never the less, MS sales are certainly less after they stopped making the CF backs. The reason is partly that they lost all customers that were using other cameras than H... (they even lost those who were using V!!! - one may wonder of how bright same marketeers are...), partly that quality can't improve further than older backs since all of them are true colour and partly because pixels are shrinking in modern sensors which affects quality negatively. That's why some swear by the old Kodak sensors that can do 16x still on huge pixels.
You see, if one wants a huge file for a project with MS, he can stitch files and have any resolution he wants since things are still...
Let me give you an example... in a few weeks I'll have to shoot a huge 230 years old hand made map of 3.7wx5 meters height in size, I went to inspect the space available and came down to the following... I'll position the Fuji GX680 against the centre of it with the 210mm lens on it and turn the 528c vertically, at a distance that the area it will cover will be the centre 1/9th + 20% of the whole map area... then I'll split the map in 9 equal areas (3 rows in 3 columns) and spot the centre of each of them... then I'll shoot the centre and do the rest by shifting the lens to centre each of the eight images left + 20% area at f16... Using a 210mm lens of much bigger image circle than the 37x49 area of the back at f16, will eliminate any chance for presence of vignetting in the image and the movement will be minimal in the image circle, more than that, I won't be reducing lens resolution as it would happen if one would frame the whole map using a view camera and would move the back using the rear standard as to cover the area.
