According to CSCmagazine and some other rumors I got from my sources Hasselblad will announce a Mirrorless camera featuring a sensor double the size of an FF sensor. It’s not an it’s something new. And unlike other Medium Format cameras that usually uses CCD sensors we have been told that this has a CMOS sensor. No info about the price but it will be expensive stuff for sure 🙂
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Smart move. Traditional applications of MF cameras doesn’t need fast AF but very precise one, as well as ability to nail the focus as accurately as possible. Both PDAF and OVF are pretty bad tools for this task. This should also decrease price for MF cameras (or increase margin for Hasselblad LOL).
This would whip the pro-market upside down. Finally the pro´s would quit going to Nikon and Canon FF cameras. BUT, if its an EVIL, make that electronic viewfinder mindboggelingly good. Because I have yet not seen an EVF thats has acceptable quality.
EVFs are much better actually: what you see is what you get. If you don’t see something with EVF that is visible with OVF — you won’t see something at photo, it clearly shows it’s not something to shoot. It’s like RF vs SLR, SLR gives more info what will be seen at photo and thus they excluded RF cameras. And EVF have gone even more. It’s the matter of predictability.
As cool as it is to see this much movement in the market, I’m a bit worried about all the different sensor sizes and mounts. Every new sensor size will need its own lenses or take lenses designed for bigger sensors with a crop.
If this trend continues we will soon have to buy large format lenses to be able to use them with all the different mounts and sensor sizes 🙂
The medium format market seems like a natural fit for mirrorless – studio, landscape and architecture photographers could all use live view, magnified focus and remote preview features, while for the most part they don’t care about autofocus speed or viewfinder refresh rates.
A modular camera with a very flat body to allow maximum use of lens adapters (plus room for tilt-shift adapters) could be a big hit – although a big hit in a tiny market. Let the photographer set it for image circle and frame proportions so it could use lenses designed for smaller formats.
yeah but they can do those things with a mirror lock up feature?
edit: the first part i mean
I was wondering, do people complain about Hasselblad prices the way people complain about Leica prices?
Why no one though about a square sensor 30x30mm camera using FF lenses ? With the same density of pixel as an APS-C 16,1MP, we would obtain a 42MP. What more ? I really dream about that ! Imagine the same quality of the Somy 16,1 MP on a 30x30mm size camera, A mount, using Zeiss ZA lenses… imagine the results…
Irrelevant news. It’s like the Lamborghini or Ferrari cars on cover pages of automobile magazines. Interesting and curious, but irrelevant. I don’t think vast majority of mirror less users care about what Hass does.
And Hasselblad don’t care what the vast majority of mirrorless users do.
Actually I like reading Lamborghini news even though I don’t have the money to buy one.
I bet this is just going to be a present sensor crop, mirrorless version body with the same mount and a bit less bulk for easier handling in the studio.
But because of that we might see them more often in outside shootings.
Kinda like Pentax did with 645
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Make it square!
Seriously, it would not surprise me if lots of classic FF lenses would cover a square “almost twice” as large as FF (34x34mm or something). Basically most lenses without a tulip shade.
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