These new digital medium format cameras are affordable by the standards of the industry but still entry-level hardware, for $7000+ and for that you still don’t quite see the edges of your lenses. That’s a 1.3x crop over the proper 645 film format. I know professional cat photographer Philip Bloom loves his Pentax 645Z, but Hasselblad is where it’s at. Whereas the Hasselblad H3D-39II with it’s Kodak KAF39000 sensor measures 49 x 36mm, the 50 megapixel Sony CMOS in the Pentax 645Z, Fuji GFX and Hasselblad X1D is a puny 44 x 33mm. The reasons for the Chinese buying Hasselblad is presumably unrelated to taking pictures of the moon (or on it), instead their focus is on the Earth – medium format cameras and very large sensors are used quite a lot in aerial photography… And in spy satellites. Hasselblad are now owned by the Chinese company DJI. When you visit the Hasselblad website today you see a picture of a drone. With a Hasselblad get to have your moon and eat it. Here, an 80mm lens brings objects in the background closer, that’s depth compression, and the large sensor maintains a wider field of view than a small sensor with such a long focal length, so you can pack nice things in around the moon. What would it be like to be the favoured one under the Lord Jesus, and be a Hasselblad medium format shooter?įor these privileged people, god brings the sun and moon closer to your camera so you can appreciate superior image quality. On a smartphone, the moon looks like a street light, a pin prick of light in the sky. If you have ever taken a photo of the moon or a solar eclipse with an iPhone, you’ll notice that both the sun and moon have been moved further away by god. (He hates smartphones). Here’s what I learnt about choosing an affordable digital body along the way… Let’s just say it’s a good job I enjoy the 80mm focal length on medium format, which is roughly equivalent to 56mm on my full frame camera, with it’s silly small crop sensor. Nevertheless, like a crocodile waiting patiently in a lake popular with tourists, I’ve been waiting for the right moment to spring onshore to snap up the small child of a wealthy portrait photographer. After scoring a bargain Hasselblad H3D-39II kindly pointed out on my very own forum, I then scoured eBay for the choice of 2 lenses I could afford, before settling on one lens after seeing the price of the second. See the word “cheap” in my clickbait PetaPixel inspired headline? Cheap compared to what? A toaster? Not quite. What’s the closest we can get to a competitive digital 645 format in 2017 for under $3000? Like that fateful skeleton, I’ve planned for a while to start doing photos properly, and not with the small crop sensor of a full frame camera. His Mac is still working though, loading Sigma Photo Pro. He’s still there now, but his heart no longer beats, his airless lungs no longer breathe and his skeleton has a very unergonomic posture at the desk. “Was it really worth it?” he began to wonder, to sell his dear wife and children into slavery for a slow and dusty camera the size of a brick?Ībsolutely, thought the man, as he polished the sensor in his Hasselblad digital back for the 10,000th time. He never regretted spending the money on a Hasselblad, but one night he decided to take it to pieces… there was a spec of dust in the viewfinder. He liked photography so much, he sold his family to a North Korean slave farm. Did you hear of the man who tried to clean every last spec of dust from his Hasselblad?īut he has a cautionary tale from beyond the grave…
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