CAMERA SPECIAL ...A perfect camera for the professional eye

A perfect camera for the professional eye



The camera can capture up to 14 stops of dynamic range, allowing for unprecedented detail

The Hasselblad X1D is among the first crop mirrorless medium format cameras to hit the market. `Medium format' means the sensor on the camera is enormous and can capture huge images ideal for putting on the side of a two storeyed building or including in a coffee table book. The X1D is beautiful -and it takes photos appropriately beautiful for its $9,000 (body only) price tag.

The Hasselblad X1D, like most serious Hasselblad products, is built not for all of us, but for pros. This isn't the camera you bring if you are a street photographer looking for some quick shots, or a wedding photographer trying to catch the event. This camera, as with most medium format cameras, is intended for the big shots.Landscapes, portraits, and objects that might be found in a catalogue. The detail a medium format camera can capture is useful primarily if you're working in print or producing huge images, like those found on billboards, or perhaps in an art gallery.

For the X1D, its first mirrorless medium format camera, Hasselblad packs a 50 megapixel CMOS sensor into its camera body. That's twice as many megapixels as found in Sony's new A9 full frame camera and 20 megapixels more than found in Canon's new 5D Mark IV. As those are both full frame cameras, their sensors are also nearly half the size of the one found in a medium format camera like the X1D.

The Hasselblad X1D has the largest sensor found in a mirrorless camera, and one of the highest megapixel counts, but it weighs in at a little over a pound and a half (725 g) -that's impressive given the technology in the little box holds, but add a lens and the setup gets heavy.

Hasselblad uses a proprietary digital RAW format: The 3FR.Its interface is intuitive and quick to learn. You can move from an aperture of f3.5 to f30 with a couple of swipes or clicks of a wheel-it offers live view, histogram feedback functionality and, of course, it is WiFi-enabled

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