santino
FSU gear head
The 500cm looks fantastic with the new digital back!
Godfrey
somewhat colored
One of the exposures I made with the 500CM, digital back, and Distagon 50mm lens. It was hand-held and the light was poor so there's a touch of motion blur in it, but I like the look of it. Wide open, I believe, at ISO 1600.
Breakfast Potential — Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Distagon 50mm f/3.5 T*
enjoy! G
Breakfast Potential — Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Distagon 50mm f/3.5 T*
enjoy! G
Godfrey
somewhat colored
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Holy Toledo that bicycle seat is dripping with crisp!
Godfrey
somewhat colored
INDEED! The Makro-Planar CF 120mm f/4 T* lens is just superb!
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Yet another from my shooting around the condo.
Bananas – Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Distagon 50mm f/4 T*
For me, this lens really does require the split image focusing screen for best focusing results.
enjoy!
G
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Yet another from my shooting around the condo.
Bananas – Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Distagon 50mm f/4 T*
For me, this lens really does require the split image focusing screen for best focusing results.
enjoy!
G
Godfrey
somewhat colored
My new ride ...
Living Room Art – Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 907x + XCD 21mm f/4
ISO 200 @ f/4 @ 1/3 second
enjoy, G
No matter where you go, go there on two wheels.
Living Room Art – Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 907x + XCD 21mm f/4
ISO 200 @ f/4 @ 1/3 second
enjoy, G
No matter where you go, go there on two wheels.
robert blu
quiet photographer
Love your Art !
chipgreenberg
Well-known
Those are both SERIOUS pieces of gear Godfrey!
Darthfeeble
But you can call me Steve
Can it be purchased separate from the camera? I did a quick search the other day and couldn't find any information.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
The CFVII 50c back and the standard 907x body will both be available as individual purchases soon.
G
Emile de Leon
Well-known
I wonder if you can attach this back to a Linhof 2x3 view camera...
Darthfeeble
But you can call me Steve
Thanks, I really don't know why I asked, I doubt that I'll be able to swing it after buying the GFX but hope springs eternal......
Godfrey
somewhat colored
As long as you have a Hasselblad V-system back adapter, sure. Hasselblad gives instructions for such use in the CVFII 50c manual.
G
Godfrey
somewhat colored
I may be stuck at home due to the "Covid-19 House Arrest" ordinances now in place, but the Irish bears came out to celebrate ...
Happy St Paddy's day!
Irish Bears - Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Makro-Planar 120mm f/4
enjoy!
G
Happy St Paddy's day!
Irish Bears - Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Makro-Planar 120mm f/4
enjoy!
G
Huss
Veteran
great results w that kit.
Ambro51
Collector/Photographer
Holy Jezzis with Forearms like that.....I’ll bet you can crack open coconuts!!!! Be careful you don’t crush your 11000$ ....camera....
Godfrey
somewhat colored
A near-full-frame image:
Painted Tins - Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Distagon 50mm f/4 T*
enjoy!
G
Painted Tins - Santa Clara 2020
Hasselblad 500CM + CFVII 50c + Distagon 50mm f/4 T*
enjoy!
G
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Nice. Really nice.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Thank you!
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I ordered the Hasselblad 907x Special Edition set shortly after they were announced in mid-Summer 2019. The one native lens I ordered with it is the XCD 21mm, to net an "all digital Hasselblad SWC" in square crop, and I will buy another one or two X system lenses for it (already have the 45P on order...).
But ... I have the Fotodiox Pro adapters for both M and R mounts, and I wondered yesterday what a couple of those lenses might perform like on the Hassy's 33x44 mm sensor.
So I pulled out two of my extreme wides for the R system and then both my ultra-ultra wide 10mm for the M as well as the 43mm wide-normal. Here are some results.
In each of these panels, the top row is the XCD 21mm as reference. The left column is the full frame rendering; the right column is a square crop to the maximum image area where no vignetting occurs. All exposures at ISO 800 and f/8, shutter speed jiggered around to get commensurate exposure per frame, and processed in LR to make exposures close as I can (quickly). Subject to camera distance in all cases is ~4.2 feet.
R Mount - I tried the Elmarit-R 19mm f/2.8 v1 and the Super-Elmar-R 15mm f/3.5. Given that the 19mm is only 2mm shorter than the XCD 21mm anyway, and vignettes, there's really no point to using it in preference to the 21mm. The 15mm nets a useful additional amount of FoV. Both lenses, in their non-vignetted area of coverage, render very nicely.
M Mount - The two lenses I tried in this test are radically different, both from each other and from the XCD 21mm. And they're interesting: The Pentax-L 43mm, being essentially an SLR lens specially adapted to LTM/M-mount, vignettes only at the corners of the full frame. Cropped vertically, it's perfect. The Voigtländer HyperWide 10mm, an ultra-ultra-wide angle that just barely covers the format even on FF, shows this wonderful view that looks like you're looking out of the mouth of some toothy beast (yup, those are the little stubby bits of the rudimentary lens hood built into it...) in the full frame image. Cropped*square down to just within the hard vignetting, it shows substantially more FoV to work with than the XCD 21mm still. And at full resolution, it's a pretty darn good performer throughout. An impressive lens.
Higher resolution versions of these comparison grids are available by clicking through to Flickr.com on them.
I've also used the Macro-Elmarit-R 60mm, the Summicron-M 50mm, and the Elmar-R 180mm + 2x Extender-R on this camera. All three have done well, the 50 and 60 even on the full 33x44mm format, the long tele best when cropped to square.
enjoy!
G
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I ordered the Hasselblad 907x Special Edition set shortly after they were announced in mid-Summer 2019. The one native lens I ordered with it is the XCD 21mm, to net an "all digital Hasselblad SWC" in square crop, and I will buy another one or two X system lenses for it (already have the 45P on order...).
But ... I have the Fotodiox Pro adapters for both M and R mounts, and I wondered yesterday what a couple of those lenses might perform like on the Hassy's 33x44 mm sensor.
So I pulled out two of my extreme wides for the R system and then both my ultra-ultra wide 10mm for the M as well as the 43mm wide-normal. Here are some results.
In each of these panels, the top row is the XCD 21mm as reference. The left column is the full frame rendering; the right column is a square crop to the maximum image area where no vignetting occurs. All exposures at ISO 800 and f/8, shutter speed jiggered around to get commensurate exposure per frame, and processed in LR to make exposures close as I can (quickly). Subject to camera distance in all cases is ~4.2 feet.
R Mount - I tried the Elmarit-R 19mm f/2.8 v1 and the Super-Elmar-R 15mm f/3.5. Given that the 19mm is only 2mm shorter than the XCD 21mm anyway, and vignettes, there's really no point to using it in preference to the 21mm. The 15mm nets a useful additional amount of FoV. Both lenses, in their non-vignetted area of coverage, render very nicely.
M Mount - The two lenses I tried in this test are radically different, both from each other and from the XCD 21mm. And they're interesting: The Pentax-L 43mm, being essentially an SLR lens specially adapted to LTM/M-mount, vignettes only at the corners of the full frame. Cropped vertically, it's perfect. The Voigtländer HyperWide 10mm, an ultra-ultra-wide angle that just barely covers the format even on FF, shows this wonderful view that looks like you're looking out of the mouth of some toothy beast (yup, those are the little stubby bits of the rudimentary lens hood built into it...) in the full frame image. Cropped*square down to just within the hard vignetting, it shows substantially more FoV to work with than the XCD 21mm still. And at full resolution, it's a pretty darn good performer throughout. An impressive lens.
Higher resolution versions of these comparison grids are available by clicking through to Flickr.com on them.
I've also used the Macro-Elmarit-R 60mm, the Summicron-M 50mm, and the Elmar-R 180mm + 2x Extender-R on this camera. All three have done well, the 50 and 60 even on the full 33x44mm format, the long tele best when cropped to square.
enjoy!
G
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Follow on to a prior post I made:
I experimented with test fitting the Leica M-mount Voigtländer HyperWide 10mm f/5.6 onto the Hasselblad 907x camera, using a Fotodiox Pro "M to X mount" adapter and the electronic shutter. Two exposures to compare: Both of these photos are made from identical camera position, 4.2 feet from the bicycle, at f/8 lens opening @ ISO 800. Exposure time (and post processing) compensated a little bit to make them render to about the same illumination.
First, for reference, a native, full-frame (33x44 mm sensor) shot with the Hasselblad XCD 21mm f/4 lens:
#1:
Simply cropping square nets the equivalent field of view of the classic Hasselblad SWC ultrawide camera (Zeiss Biogon 38mm f/4.5 T* lens):
#2:
The question I sought to answer was: How would the image differ if I adapted the almost absurdly short Voigtländer 10mm lens to the camera? Here's the full frame capture ...
#3:
... where you can see the rudimentary, tiny stubs of the lense's permanent, built-in lens shade poking into the top and sides of the image coverage. These obstructions are *just* outside the field of view with the lens fitted to a 35mm FF format camera. To me, it looks like I'm inside the mouth of some toothy creature….
Next I cropped this image to a square that fitted just inside the hard vignetting obstructions at top and bottom:
#4:
This presents an "Ultra-SWC" square format FoV, with I'm guessing about 125° diagonal angle of view, a whopping ~30° more subject coverage on the diagonal than the SWC has! (For reference, the calculation is based on the diagonal AoV of a 38mm lens on 56x56 mm format vs what I'm estimating as 10mm lens on 28x28 mm cropped format.) What I'm most amazed at is that the detailing and rectilinear correction of this 10mm lens remains really good right out to the corners! Pretty fantastic performance.
Now to figure out what to do with all this insane field of view.
G
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"If you're stuck in hell, you may as well roast some marshmallows."
I experimented with test fitting the Leica M-mount Voigtländer HyperWide 10mm f/5.6 onto the Hasselblad 907x camera, using a Fotodiox Pro "M to X mount" adapter and the electronic shutter. Two exposures to compare: Both of these photos are made from identical camera position, 4.2 feet from the bicycle, at f/8 lens opening @ ISO 800. Exposure time (and post processing) compensated a little bit to make them render to about the same illumination.
First, for reference, a native, full-frame (33x44 mm sensor) shot with the Hasselblad XCD 21mm f/4 lens:
#1:
Simply cropping square nets the equivalent field of view of the classic Hasselblad SWC ultrawide camera (Zeiss Biogon 38mm f/4.5 T* lens):
#2:
The question I sought to answer was: How would the image differ if I adapted the almost absurdly short Voigtländer 10mm lens to the camera? Here's the full frame capture ...
#3:
... where you can see the rudimentary, tiny stubs of the lense's permanent, built-in lens shade poking into the top and sides of the image coverage. These obstructions are *just* outside the field of view with the lens fitted to a 35mm FF format camera. To me, it looks like I'm inside the mouth of some toothy creature….
Next I cropped this image to a square that fitted just inside the hard vignetting obstructions at top and bottom:
#4:
This presents an "Ultra-SWC" square format FoV, with I'm guessing about 125° diagonal angle of view, a whopping ~30° more subject coverage on the diagonal than the SWC has! (For reference, the calculation is based on the diagonal AoV of a 38mm lens on 56x56 mm format vs what I'm estimating as 10mm lens on 28x28 mm cropped format.) What I'm most amazed at is that the detailing and rectilinear correction of this 10mm lens remains really good right out to the corners! Pretty fantastic performance.
Now to figure out what to do with all this insane field of view.
G
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"If you're stuck in hell, you may as well roast some marshmallows."