This is the camera my heart tells me to buy along with the 55 and 90 F2.5 lenses. My brain and wallet say buy the Fuji gfx 100s or 100s II and the 45-100 F4 and a fast prime. I'm not a smart man so I'm pretty sure I know how I will go unless I skip digital all together and go with the 500 C/M and 80mm F2.8 that I know later I will get the 907x and 100c.
A lot of assumptions in this video based on camera industry misinformation. What scientists like to call "lies we tell children." Examples: if the images look different from this camera than from a GFX camera with the same sensor (all the 100mpx models) it's not because of hardware or "color science." It's because of default raw profiles. Lenses? Very slight differences. Color science is a meaningless term. Everyone is bound by the same color science. Companies build different color preferences into their raw formulas-but you're not bound to using those. "This camera is sensitive in the highlights." No more than every other digital camera. All digital cameras have a linear respons up until clipping. There are zero differences here. If you experience some as behaving differently, this again is the default raw profile you're using. It's an area where the lies they tell children go too far, in my opinion. A true professional camera should show you actual raw histograms, so you can know what's actually going on. Bizarrely, no camera maker that I know of does this. 14-bit and 16-bit files the same size? This means either 1) they're making the 14-bit files pointlessly large, or 2) the 16-bit files aren't really 16-bit. At the end of the day it's all dumb, because the analog dynamic range of this sensor is only infinitesimally higher than 14 bits. You can prove it with a controlled side-by-side test. "ISO." One of the worst lies told to children. Camera makers just need to eliminate this. The Hasselblad, like the Fujis, uses a Sony dual-gain sensor. The gain levels are low and high. You get high gain at ISO 500 and above, low gain below ISO 500. Otherwise, the only difference ISO makes is to the preview image and to the way the raw file appears before you adjust the software gain. It's all just a pointless complication. Typical skeuomorphic design to either confuse us or insult our intelligence. I'm not singling out Hasselblad here; everyone does it. I just wish camera reviewers knew enough to call them out.
in the YT marketing world mythes and emotions are needed to praise and make you buy a certain system when the facts are less convincing compared to the competition. so I´m not surprised that hasselblad and the yt crowd wants you to focus on certain points with the hope you forget the problematic rest.
...a really funny watch but v and h systems were used by many professionals while the new generation is almost an amateur system exclusively, guess why ? its not very hard to find out.....
at 5:30 no wonder you are having ergonomic issues, you are holding it wrong, you NEED to grip it goofy aka like a 500C ! lefty, left hand is the tripod QR plate, and the shutter release, the Right hand focuses, and operates the winder [500] or in this case the focus and aperture alone {UI, but also electronically the touch UI, and rear buttons by this same hand}, this is the design of it, and once mastered, everything should just fall into your hands. that last thing is the iconic bit, the H's where the same, small necessary menu structure, buttons where your hand just 'falls' on them, such an easy camera to shoot, none of the complexities of modern digital, no wading through focus settings, custom control menus 3 pages long.... simple, quick, out the bag, batt and card in, fire, that intuitive. the crying shame of it, is that this philosophy costs big bucks, not so big nowadays, compared to a Canon R1/R5ii or a Nikon Z8\9 but only slightly more, aka 8K, 9K-12K kind of ball park figures, basic lens, back and battery, etc. the 'best bit'... it is backwards compatible, to your old 500/200/2000 series film camera, lenses, Yes even the old C's {with a latency setting and the right cables to the flash sync socket} they designed these backs right.
Lots of good information, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
This is the camera my heart tells me to buy along with the 55 and 90 F2.5 lenses. My brain and wallet say buy the Fuji gfx 100s or 100s II and the 45-100 F4 and a fast prime. I'm not a smart man so I'm pretty sure I know how I will go unless I skip digital all together and go with the 500 C/M and 80mm F2.8 that I know later I will get the 907x and 100c.
A lot of assumptions in this video based on camera industry misinformation. What scientists like to call "lies we tell children." Examples: if the images look different from this camera than from a GFX camera with the same sensor (all the 100mpx models) it's not because of hardware or "color science." It's because of default raw profiles. Lenses? Very slight differences. Color science is a meaningless term. Everyone is bound by the same color science. Companies build different color preferences into their raw formulas-but you're not bound to using those.
"This camera is sensitive in the highlights." No more than every other digital camera. All digital cameras have a linear respons up until clipping. There are zero differences here. If you experience some as behaving differently, this again is the default raw profile you're using. It's an area where the lies they tell children go too far, in my opinion. A true professional camera should show you actual raw histograms, so you can know what's actually going on. Bizarrely, no camera maker that I know of does this.
14-bit and 16-bit files the same size? This means either 1) they're making the 14-bit files pointlessly large, or 2) the 16-bit files aren't really 16-bit. At the end of the day it's all dumb, because the analog dynamic range of this sensor is only infinitesimally higher than 14 bits. You can prove it with a controlled side-by-side test.
"ISO." One of the worst lies told to children. Camera makers just need to eliminate this. The Hasselblad, like the Fujis, uses a Sony dual-gain sensor. The gain levels are low and high. You get high gain at ISO 500 and above, low gain below ISO 500. Otherwise, the only difference ISO makes is to the preview image and to the way the raw file appears before you adjust the software gain. It's all just a pointless complication. Typical skeuomorphic design to either confuse us or insult our intelligence. I'm not singling out Hasselblad here; everyone does it. I just wish camera reviewers knew enough to call them out.
in the YT marketing world mythes and emotions are needed to praise and make you buy a certain system when the facts are less convincing compared to the competition. so I´m not surprised that hasselblad and the yt crowd wants you to focus on certain points with the hope you forget the problematic rest.
THIS! All of this. Thank you for providing proper context to the "issues" in this review.
Good review. The title needs a possessive apostrophe, as in "Hasselblad's"
...a really funny watch but v and h systems were used by many professionals while the new generation is almost an amateur system exclusively, guess why ? its not very hard to find out.....
at 5:30 no wonder you are having ergonomic issues, you are holding it wrong, you NEED to grip it goofy aka like a 500C ! lefty, left hand is the tripod QR plate, and the shutter release, the Right hand focuses, and operates the winder [500] or in this case the focus and aperture alone {UI, but also electronically the touch UI, and rear buttons by this same hand}, this is the design of it, and once mastered, everything should just fall into your hands.
that last thing is the iconic bit, the H's where the same, small necessary menu structure, buttons where your hand just 'falls' on them, such an easy camera to shoot, none of the complexities of modern digital, no wading through focus settings, custom control menus 3 pages long.... simple, quick, out the bag, batt and card in, fire, that intuitive. the crying shame of it, is that this philosophy costs big bucks, not so big nowadays, compared to a Canon R1/R5ii or a Nikon Z8\9 but only slightly more, aka 8K, 9K-12K kind of ball park figures, basic lens, back and battery, etc. the 'best bit'... it is backwards compatible, to your old 500/200/2000 series film camera, lenses, Yes even the old C's {with a latency setting and the right cables to the flash sync socket} they designed these backs right.