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Hasselblad's new 100-megapixel The medium-format digicam system is able to taking actually beautiful images and is totally incapable of capturing video. It's a photographer's digicam, for these fortunate sufficient to be nonetheless photographers with out the demanding video workload of each job. If that's you—and you’ve got the additional money—then that is the digicam you need.
The CFV100c is a brand new 100-megapixel digital again that will probably be paired with each Hasselblad's 907X digital physique (the smallest medium format digicam in the marketplace) and the older 501c Hasselblad. Insert an non-compulsory grip and you’ve got a medium-format digital digicam system that can be utilized like an outdated Hasselblad movie digicam (capturing waist stage), as a extra versatile digital model utilizing a flip display screen, or as a extra conventional SLR-style Might be carried out for capturing. With grip.
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Like most photographers, I don't have a Hasselblad 501c mendacity round, so I did all my testing utilizing the 907X with the CFV 100C. This combo is extremely compact, snug to shoot at each waist stage and eye stage, in addition to straightforward to hold. The 907X a part of the rig is slim, just a bit greater than what connects the XCD collection lenses to the 100C sensor again. The brains and sensors of the bundle are within the new CFV 100C digital again.
The 100-megapixel medium-format sensor is similar Hasselblad used within the X2D (7/10, WIRED assessment), and it stays breathtaking. Not solely is the decision extraordinarily detailed, however RAW information seize 15 stops of dynamic vary and 16-bit coloration, providing among the greatest coloration rendition I've ever seen in a digital sensor. It's troublesome to find out precisely what it’s that makes these information particular, however I not often felt the necessity to edit them. They already look the way in which I would like them. Naturally, this may rely upon photographic fashion and private style, however at the least for me, the Hasselblad's coloration and tone rendition – even in JPG information – is second to none.
Nonetheless, they’re very massive information. Remember that RAW information are round 200 megabytes, and even JPGs will be within the excessive 80-MB vary. Just like the X2D, this digicam features a 1-terabyte drive and a CFexpress card slot to develop storage capability even additional.
The sensor and storage are much like the DSLR-style X2D, however the 907X 100C has nothing else in frequent. The X2D looks like utilizing a high-resolution Nikon. Mix this with the shortage of video options – which I’d have most popular to have in a extra DSLR kind issue – and the X2D fails for me. Regardless of sharing the identical sensor, the 907X is an entire distinction to the 100C. That is the digicam Hasselblad followers have been dreaming of. With a digital soul, it’s the whole lot that made the movie Hasselblads particular. It could not final so long as movie cameras (in any case, electronics will be finicky), however in each different manner, it carries on the Hasselblad custom.
This doesn’t imply that there are not any trendy enhancements right here. Autofocus, an space the place even latest Hasselblads have struggled, is significantly better. It has face detection (no, not the eyes, simply the face), which works very effectively in all settings however in very low mild. I would favor eye detection, nevertheless it works in most conditions. I favor handbook focus more often than not.