I am currently still using film photography, as I don't quite have the 7 to $10,000 for a new, CCD camera. However, I am looking at a used one for $4000, and the prices are coming down slowly. Every month that goes by, newer CCD cameras are being developed with larger and more light sensitive chips. Keep saving those pennies - for a boatload of money, and if you promise not to export it, I can get you a 25 megapixel CCD that does stereo images in vis and near-IR. Of course, it'll come off a pod meant to be mounted underneath an F-16, so the lenses will be your problem, but I bet you can figure something out. Ground station not included ;)
The boatload of money will be my problem, not the lenses.