Hasselblad Announcement -New Chapter!

[dave lackey]

Hasselblad just sent out this teaser:🙂🙂🙂

https://www.hasselblad.com/

 

[Calzone]

Wow Dave,

Thanks for posting this.

Cal

 

[p.giannakis]

What you think it might be?

 

[Huss]

xpan III !!!!!

 

[jordan.dickinson]

Looks very XPAN-ny to me too! The framing of the countdown is very wide-angle, not to mention the words "expanding (X-panding) the hasselblad experience". Digital XPan? Updated film XPan? (more unlikely probably, but would be AMAZING!)


Coincidentally, a near mint XPan 1 w/45mm came into my local shop just this week, and I put money down on it! It's long been a dream camera for me, and though I don't think I'll be changing my mind, if there's a new XPan coming out, I might have to rethink things a little...

 

[brbo]

Anything but XPan III (film!) doesn't make sense 😉

 

[jordan.dickinson]

After some more thought, the coolest thing I could possibly imagine is a dual release of a Digital XPan along with an updated Film Xpan. I realize this is a near impossibility, but that would honestly be the most impressive release I could think of.

 

[HHPhoto]

xpan III !!!!!

That would be of course very nice, but is extremely unlikely at this time point.
Consider that you need 2-3 years to design such a camera and build up the production capacities.
Therefore the decision to start such a project must have been done in 2016 or 2017. And at that time we've only seen the very first and small signs of the global film revival.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a X-Pan III in 2-5 years.

Cheers, Jan

 

[Larry Cloetta]

A newly manufactured film camera of any kind, made by anybody, would be hard to believe, but a digital panoramic body would seem even less likely, as stitching would seem to already have all those bases covered for just about anyone wanting to do panoramas.
And, a new film camera introduced right after they quit making film scanners, that’s a bit odd as well. Unless they are introducing a new film Xpan, and new film scanners as well. Sign me up for that combo!

Intriguing to say the least.

 

[Ted Striker]

That would be of course very nice, but is extremely unlikely at this time point.
Consider that you need 2-3 years to design such a camera and build up the production capacities.
Therefore the decision to start such a project must have been done in 2016 or 2017. And at that time we've only seen the very first and small signs of the global film revival.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a X-Pan III in 2-5 years.

Cheers, Jan

Made by Fujifilm or by Hasselblad?

 

[Huss]

Well Fuji just announced Acros II. And they made the xpan...

 

[dave lackey]

Most people are expecting the X1D Mark II version to be 100MP.😎

 

[jsrockit]

Yeah Dave, the RFF crowd is in their own bubble. More likely it is that though I’m not sure about the 100mp part.

 

[dave lackey]

Yeah Dave, the RFF crowd is in their own bubble. More likely it is that though I’m not sure about the 100mp part.

No one knows... forums are like that. Here, a definite preference for Xpan inspired new gear, whereas others are mesmerized by the huge Fuji 100MP brick and would love that higher resolution. Will Hasselblad keep the same form as the X1D with a 100MP sensor? We will find out in a few days!

To Hasselblad's credit, they have kept the new chapter secret for a long time.🙂🙂🙂

 

[jsrockit]

No one knows... forums are like that. Here, a definite preference for Xpan inspired new gear, whereas others are mesmerized by the huge Fuji 100MP brick and would love that higher resolution. Will Hasselblad keep the same form as the X1D with a 100MP sensor? We will find out in a few days!

To Hasselblad's credit, they have kept the new chapter secret for a long time.🙂🙂🙂

I am actually shocked by the number of amateurs on a certain forum (not RFF) that are talking about buying the new 100mp for Fuji for $10000+ ... people that do not seem to have enough experience with lower end equipment. But I guess those are times we are in... buy your way into better images (of brick walls).

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I am actually shocked by the number of amateurs on a certain forum (not RFF) that are talking about buying the new 100mp for Fuji for $10000+ ... people that do not seem to have enough experience with lower end equipment. But I guess those are times we are in... buy your way into better images (of brick walls).

😎
Those who have purchased bunch of M10 with all kind of Nostluxes, plus Q, T, X and the rest of ABC and dying to spend money on else ?

 

[jsrockit]

😎
Those who have purchased bunch of M10 with all kind of Nostluxes, plus Q, T, X and the rest of ABC and dying to spend money on else ?

I guess but at least Leica is sexy... 😉

 

[nickthetasmaniac]

Am I missing something here? All I see at the Hasselblad link is the regular homepage with existing products and whatnot... No teaser?

But I guess those are times we are in... buy your way into better images (of brick walls).

Go back a few decades and I suspect there would have been more than a few wealthy amateurs with all the money and no idea buying Hasselblad 500's...

 

[dave lackey]

Am I missing something here? All I see at the Hasselblad link is the regular homepage with existing products and whatnot... No teaser?



Go back a few decades and I suspect there would have been more than a few wealthy amateurs with all the money and no idea buying Hasselblad 500's...

When you click on the link, don't you get the countdown clock?

If not, go to Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BysIyPIoTl-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

[lynnb]

A new Hasselblad countdown darkroom timer? 😀