I immediately thought about the cost differential 3x between the two cameras , which led to my determination to find out why the medium format quality is so favored.
Looking at the photos a bit closer I began to see differences in the processing between Nikon and Hasselblad. Above are the raw photos with no changes. The Nikon coloring is different and the Hasselblad has a pleasing skin tone. This is what came out of the cameras — no adjustments were made. Going very much closer into the neck and T-shirt, the differences are dramatic.
Color, skin tone, and handling of the blacks are quite interesting apologies for my wrinkles! I would not say one is right and the other wrong, they are just different. I made no attempt to match these photographs or change anything on the files. I have shot dozens of portraits in the studio, on the street, and in almost all venues with the possible exception of on the moon although I did shoot Buzz Aldrin in a Zeppelin once!
I only had the X1D for a couple of days so I set up a quick studio in my office with one Paul Buff strobe and a black background. I got my neighbor Claire to pose for me with a traditional look and soft light. What a pleasant experience to be able to shoot at high shutter speeds with a strobe with ease! The only processing I did on Claire was to remove some black wrinkles in the background and to reduce saturation by I found the raw image a bit too saturated for my taste.
I was quite pleased with the result of my portrait flash test. It has the medium format look I was looking for. With incredible detail at 50 megapixels I can also see a soft film wrap around. I have never been able to do this with my Nikon. Take a look at the light wrapping around the fingers. I just love it! The second major test I wanted to make was to see if I could really see the difference in 16 bit color in daylight. Greens are always tricky to shoot and I thought I might add flash to the daylight to see how it mixed.
There are several green tones and makes for an easy test. My friend Jan and a green plant were inside. I placed my Paul Buff x outside the window of the shed to simulate sunlight coming in. From the outside I can see a very pleasant rich color mixture of the shed, the tree, and the frog.
The daylight and flash mixed very well also. It has an overall medium format look to me. Closer up, the colors held up. As I have shot thousands of Nikon shots, I know I would have gotten a much more blotchy look than what you see here with the Hasselblad.
I think my friend Jan was mad he did not have the X1D! I actually rushed back to BorrowLenses to have them check on the noise.
I thought I was possibly hearing a failure in the focus ring in the lens! The crunching noise lasted almost 1 second every time I pushed the shutter. The BorrowLenses engineer smiled and assured me all was well. Still, I called my other friend who owns 2 Hasselblads and who listened to the noise on Skype and agreed it sounded awful.
It reminds me of my first Cortina I had in , which only had 3 gears, but I digress. I cannot shoot more than 1 shot at a time with the X1D out in the field. It can shoot more than 1 frame a second but you cannot see what the camera is doing. Furthermore, the focusing times are slower than Nikon, though acceptable.
I tried to fool the camera with close and narrow real-world focusing directions and the X1D does not have the same tools as a DSLR to deal with these subtleties.
This is part of the philosophy to keep the camera simple and clean. Fair enough. I do love the fact that the camera has a clean look with very few menus! Can I readjust my street shooting style to no longer shoot in successive decisive moments? Rather, should I plan a shot and be content with one quality photograph instead of several possibly mediocre ones? Every camera has its purpose.
I am still not sure if I am there yet with the X1D. The navigation for picture review is fine and there are some nice zoom features. I could not find a way to delete multiple pictures. It was either just one at a time or re-format the card.
The EVF fonts are light and small and not easy to see with glasses on. The EVF turning off after every shot made me impatient and I pressed the shutter again guessing at composition and focus to get a second shot.
Again, shooting philosophy and style. Simply a poor design but not the end the world. No instructions to be found describing the app buttons. I needed to know because the crunching noise was different when I used the app shutter than pressing the shutter manually so I did not know what was going on. The sensor is enormous and right there when you open the body cap.
It is going to get dirty so easily. There is no mirror to protect it, of course, being a mirrorless camera. Just a maintenance concern I have. I wrote them recently asking for an update on the zoom and they ignored my email. Center Fold. Peacock Chick. Dusky Glow. Upside Down. Peaceful Discussion. Toucan In The Spotlight.
Happy Halloween! How to Choose the Optimum Focus Point s for Change the Season or Weather in Nature Photos Capture Dynamic Portraits by Throwing Paint at a Remember me. Create new account Request new password. Hasselblad keeps a selection of so-called golden backs, which are perfectly calibrated sensors that the company uses to test its new cameras against.
Assembly and testing are very closely coupled at Hasselblad. The station where a new digital back is put together sits only a few steps away from this testing rig where that new part can be checked and verified to be performing according to spec. Hasselblad uses these big spheres to generate the most uniform color possible, and then it hooks up its cameras to one end and checks to see how well they reproduce that color. Because, of course, Hasselblad repairs every camera in the same place that it makes them.
Windows XP, old school monitors from Samsung and Dell, two-inch-thick Sony laptops from decades ago Along with its other low-tech tools, Hasselblad uses these slender little brushes to clean up the trickiest nooks in and around its cameras. To the right of the brushes are the carbon fiber blades used for the shutter mechanism. So yes, it makes sense that each one would come accompanied with exhaustive paperwork. Once all the mechanical, electronic, and photographic tests are cleared, the final step is for each camera to be polished and re-checked by hand.
One of the things I found impressive about the Hasselblad production facility is how even the gender and age balance of the employees was. There were as many women workers as men, and the person overseeing the first stage of shutter testing was a teenager while the one completing the final packaging was probably twice his age.
There are power adapters to make the charger compatible with all the various global standards. Plus, Hasselblad has been one of the earliest adopters of USB-C, which comes in handy when you want to tether the camera to your modern computer.
The stuff that Hasselblad receives from overseas manufacturers is basically just bits of metal, plastic, and printed circuitry. This is the standard test scene by which Hasselblad has been testing its cameras for years. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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