After spending some time shooting with the mirrorless medium format Hasselblad X1D, Tyler wants to talk all about medium format cameras. We also touch on Lightroom processing techniques and VSCO.
Things have been changing at Hasselblad lately. New ownership, new leadership, and bold new product directions with the X1D. Everyone I know in the photography community was blown away when they announced they're extremely compact and elegance mirrorless design. It hadn't even occurred to me that a medium format camera could ever be in this small.
After using it for a few shoot in Vancouver and Palm Springs, The image quality definitely lived up to my expectations. Tons of dynamic range, very low noise, fantastic colour depth, and incredible sharpness. None of that is a surprise coming from Hasselblad, their reputation for quality is well earned. I also love the 3:4 image ratio of the large sensor, I would always prefer it over 4:6.
I was surprised to see quite a bit of vignetting in the 45mm f/3.5 when it’s wide open. It cleans up fine in post, but it was quite a bit for a normal lens.
The physical controls were very well designed. The control dial that pops out is beautiful and practical, and release mechanism on the batteries feels very sturdy and satisfying. One improvement I would love to see is a physical control for the exposure compensation, and there are some software bugs in the touch screen interface, but I’ve heard they may have recently been fixed in a firmware update.
I don’t want to go too much further in depth without spending more time with the Hasselblad X1D, but I loved shooting with it in the time I had. From one perspective it can seem very expensive, but from another, it’s a very reasonable price such an incredible sensor and beautiful design. I hope it’s a sign of more great things to come from Hasselblad.
TYLER'S SAMPLES FROM THE HASSELBLAD X1DEdited in Lightroom, click for larger size
View fullsizeShot on the Mamyia 7 and Yashica Mat 124G
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39 - FIXING LIGHT
38 - HOW TO KEEP SHOOTING WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT
BONUS WHATEVER - THE FORCE AWAKENS
37 - GEAR OF THE YEAR 2015
36 - CAMERA KITS FOR EVENT, PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS
35 - WISHLIST
34 - HOW TO CARRY A CAMERA
33 - NEXT LEVEL POST PRODUCTION AND THE TROUBLE WITH CLIENTS
32 - YOU CAN'T JUST DELETE THEM ALL
31 - SHOOTING FROM BELOW
30 - COMMERCIAL VIDEOS, SCANNING FILM, AND MINECRAFT
29 - SHOOTING LIVE MUSIC
28 - THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF OBSESSING ABOUT GEAR
27 - DREAM CAMERA
26 - COMPARING YOUR WORK
25 - SELECTING YOUR BEST WORK
24 - REVIEW OF THE CANON 50MM F/1.8 STM
23 - POINT AND SHOOT REVIEWS: THE FUJI KLASSE AND CONTAX T2
22 - THE BOKEH CRUTCH
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