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Sorry for the bad joke guys, it isn’t the NEX-FF or a new A-mount Full Frame. What’s in Stock for the first time is the [shoplink 21164 ebay]Hasselblad Stellar on eBay Germany (Click here)[/shoplink]. They do ship worldwide if you want! Found via DealsRunner.com
I hope Hasselblad can go back to what they can really do fine, great cameras like the [shoplink 21165 ebay]Hasselblad 503cw[/shoplink] for example. Make them with a large Sony medium format sensor. That would be something don’t you think?
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Almost Heart attack :-S
Oh, they made three to cover the market.
They expect the stock to last until the next generation of Sony RX100m3 arrives at whcih point they’ll get all of the unsold or factory refurbished RX100m2 and give them the grip treatment.
My heart is ecstatic with this announcement and I can barely hold my breath before shouting emphatically my joy for such a camera.
Man, that title was really disruptive!
Nice joke andrea… nice joke… 🙁
This is such a tragedy. I used to be so proud (as a Swede) of their products. Now the company seems to be in the hands of totally incompetent Italian fashion designers, knowing exactly nothing about photography. Victor Hasselblad, rest in peace, I hope you never will learn how your name and your company has become a laughing matter. So extremely sad.
Eww
I like hasselblad but blatant attempt at glorification and elitism doesn’t deserve my respect.
Admin, why do you mention old film cameras? Hasselblad is selling digital medium format cameras. You make it sound like they aren’t.
Hasselblad hasn’t been Hasselblad since they went to the H1. Which is just a rebranded Fuji camera plastic piece of junk…
Aehm, H1 is at least possible to focus manualy without much problems. Which cant be said about certain other MF producer. 😀 Making true plastic sh*t. Tho they make great digital backs, just much less great cameras..
Otherwise yes, Hasselblad was themselves last time when they made film cameras. Long time ago and apart from their glorified status and Zeiss lens (great.. pretty much all of them) wasnt that amazing. Most of japanese stuff (Pentax, Mamiya, Zenza) is way more refined and easier to use than Blads. Just less iconic.
MF backs with CMOS are hard to make and would cost arm, legs, kidney, maybe lung.. Simply put, ridiculously expensive. Thats why its still CCD. Tho not sure why nobody tried to stitch more FFs or APS-Cs together as thats possible with CCDs (Dalsa made are 4×1 sensors usually). But, maybe they dont wont or theres some obstacle from technical point of view..
I would be ok with 36x36mm sensor in NEX-6 style with adapters. You could use it as FF crop, no need to go vertical, just crop it. You could have proper FOVs with different ratios (like GH1 or GH2 from Panasonic), and ofc 1:1 ratio with some medium format lens.
Typo “want” not “wont”. Tho they apparently “wont” either. 😀
> I would be ok with 36x36mm sensor in NEX-6 style with adapters.
Many photographers would jump at the chance to use such a camera.
rather like 30×30 will do fine with most 135 format lenses.
That’s incorrect, Fuji was allowed to sell in Japan and only there H1 under Fuji name. Fuji was involved in the design of lenses and made glass for them. H1 was still mostly Hasselblad, maybe you meant XPan?
Lunar… Stellar… I’m waiting for the Hasselblad Uranus — a rebadged Sony Mavica from 1981 that costs $15,000 USD and uses retro floppy disks.
Hasselblad: Astronomical Names, Astronomical Prices ™
Wow I laughed hard at this
At least your’s wás a joke, the hassy is real 😉
I think it would be great if Hassleblad produced a traditional a-mount dSLR with an OVF to complement Sony’s offerings. This would make it stand out far more than re-packaging year old Sony cameras in mahogany and calling it a day.
Even if they basically took a99 innards for instance and produced a camera with the same sensor, processors, etc. but with an OVF, without an slt mirror and perhaps their own menu system they would be producing something worthwhile. Given the company’s history, they should have the talent and ability to design and produce this.
That would be a nice camera. Except I would beef up the processor.
Im waiting for A 99 mk II. I dont see this any place beeing shipped
Andrea,
I believe you us an awesome rumor soon on an any of the ff cameras after that joke. That rumor title was a rollercoaster ride.
I think Hassleblad should just admit they’re taking us back to the 1980’s and come out with an a99 decked out like this baby:
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/pentaxlx/Pentax_LX_Gold/index1.htm
hasselblad owns Imacon, Imacon makes DIGITAL SENSORS. I doubt they would switch from their in house chip fab to sony.
The Lunar and Stellar use Sony sensors…and processors, and EVF, and LCD…basically everything but the outer rubber / finish.
I was referring to H series. I don’t really count that rebadge sony’s.
I should say Imacon makes the digital backs and they are both owned by the same holding company and now are both under the hasselblad name. Hasselblad isn’t hasselblad anymore its just a name owned by a holding company for almost what 10 years now.
Hasselblad is slowing dying like Rollei did….Out of the camera business in a few years or so is my guess…
I guess they need to employ some good designers otherwise they will just become history!
Hasselblad/Sony should produce the A mount camera that Sony alone does not seem willing to make.
Still pictures only, 36mm Square sensor, Over 100MP.
Hasselblad can take Sony lenses remove the rectangular baffle plate from the rear and relabel them Hasselblad.
The sensor can be fine tuned to have great dynamic range but not extrmely high ISO.
The thing is, an FF lens won’t cover 36*36. It’s 30*30 at most, and that won’t really give any area advantage over 36*24…
Hasselblad produces fecalia these days…
Selfridges in London also have a full display cabinet of Hasselblad/Sony range
SONY should produce fine material limitted editions themself. It would look fine in magazines and trade shows. Their finish is OK for us but sometimes it looks too cheap.
Andrea, why do you continue to post about Hasselblad when you are so opposed to them and pi..ed of by their design choices ?
I don´t really see the seriousness in this.
You try to run a somehow serious site (well, if rumors is to be called serious), but this just drag the whole site down to dpreview level…or even lower.
How can you be serious about these utterly absurd products from Hasselblad ?
Because i have one !
Ownership doesn’t make the concept any less ridiculous.
Just because you dont understand the concept and the decisions of Hasselblad and can´t understand this part of the thread, does it make you any less ridiculous ?
My initial post was not about + or – about the design, but about if this particular post from Sonyalpharumours do this site any good at all. I think not.
” Sorry for the bad joke guys, it isn’t the NEX-FF or a new A-mount Full Frame. ” read it again if u dont understand?