Hasselblad SWC is cool

mcfingon said:
Your SWC photos showing the quiet beauty of Iceland and Tasmania all look great. They are a credit to your composition and scanning skills. This last one looks very much like it could be in my area in the extreme south of Western Australia.
John Mc
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Thanks John. I've been lucky enough to spend a bit of time in south west WA and in my experience it is very similar to Tassie. In particular the coastline around Esperance is a spitting image of the Freycinet Peninsula.
 
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A brief moment of SWC p0rn among the beautiful photos here.

This is the 1980 SWC/M I do my work on. It's not pretty and was used professionally for three decades by it's previous owner, but it works beautifully and it's quickly becoming a favourite 🙂

 
Lots and lots of beautiful photographs! Thanks for posting them! 😀

I found I wasn't using my SWC enough and when the guy I bought it from (an old friend) mentioned that he really wanted another, I sold it back to him. That was my second SWC. I miss it almost as much as I missed my first one, even though I hardly put ten rolls of film through it in six years. But ...

Hasselblad has now announced the camera I've been looking for: the 907x. Fitted with the CFV50c II back and the XCD 21mm lens, it is essentially a 39mpixel, all digital SWC when you set it to crop square (33x33 mm format). I can use its back with my 500CM, I can adapt my Leica M and R lenses to it. It is my dream camera, moreso than even the Leica SL and M-D were.

I will have one, in particular the 907x Special Edition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Yes!

Life's too short ... I'm going for the gusto. 😀

G

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Emile de Leon said:
Nice cam..it actually has a..flippy screen..well..tilting...
Priced @ $7499-
The new..SWC..
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... Plus the lens, of course. Add $4000. Not inexpensive, sigh. But when I think of what a new SWC costed in 1968*—when I first saw one and fell in love with it—that price isn't actually too far different. 🙂

* I seem to recall an SWC in 1968 was about a $750-800 camera, with no film back. Add $200 for a film back so about $950 in round numbers. At the time, that was so far above anything I could imagine ever affording it was a point of despair. In today's dollars, the numbers would be about $7000 just on monetary valuation, but the 907x is a full interchangeable lens camera ... a much more versatile/value for the money purchase even if it is about half again more money.

The really interesting thing is to consider that, cropped to a 33x33 square format and with the back's electronic shutter capability, I can use nearly any of my M and R lenses on it. That means I have a full system with focal length choices from 10mm up to 360mm, full macro gear (extension tubes, bellows, rail focusing gizmo, etc), and it supports full both wired tether and WiFi operation with my iPad Pro 11" using Hasselblad Phocus Mobile. I can even buy a tilt/shift adapter from several manufacturers that takes my V system lenses onto X mount and have a good bit of what you'd pay three times that for in a MFD technical camera.

I'm really really excited and can't wait to get this camera. 😀

G
 
Godfrey said:
Hasselblad has now announced the camera I've been looking for: the 907x. Fitted with the CFV50c II back and the XCD 21mm lens, it is essentially a 39mpixel, all digital SWC when you set it to crop square (33x33 mm format).
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The 907x/CFV50cII is really the first MFD that has seriously caught my eye (although it's well beyond my budget). Really interesting system camera.

How would theFoV of 21mm on 33x33 compare to 38mm on 6x6?
 
nickthetasmaniac said:
The 907x/CFV50cII is really the first MFD that has seriously caught my eye (although it's well beyond my budget). Really interesting system camera.

How would theFoV of 21mm on 33x33 compare to 38mm on 6x6?
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It's very close ... just a little bit wider by about 3.6° across the diagonal:

Width = 56 mm, Length = 56 mm, Diagonal = 79.196 mm
f - Hor - Vert - Diag
38mm - 72.8° - 72.8° - 92.4°

Width = 33 mm, Length = 33 mm, Diagonal = 46.669 mm
f - Hor - Vert - Diag
21mm - 76.3° - 76.3° - 96.0°


The closest focal length match on 33x33mm to f=38mm on 56x56mm would be about 22.5mm.

G
 
giganova said:
Definitely beautiful, but I'd rather have the X1D-II with a wide angle lens. Saves a couple of thousand $$, the ergonomic is much better and has a ELV.
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I presume you mean "EVF" (electronic view finder) rather then "ELV". ??

I've debated the X1D (and now X1D II) since it was first announced. It's a lovely camera and very attractive to me. But the form factor is exactly why I want the 907x + CFV50c II kit instead ... that "small box with a lens on the end" works very well for me, just like the SWC does. Plus the fact that the back works with my existing Hasselblad 500CM and its lenses too.

Different cameras for different folks' needs and desires, that's all.

G
 
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