malmac
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Hi
I am not yet a MFD owner but that is likely to change fairly soon. Have been looking at MFD for about 18 months and this forum, Hasselblad forum and Luminous Landscapes have all been useful sources of information.
However it was not until this week that I had a serious opportunity to take some images with both the H4D 40 and 50 and with a P45+.
First impressions for those of you who have not as yet had this opportunity.
The H4D camera is a joy to hold in the hand. The view through the viewfinder was splendid and the controls with maybe the exception of the mirror up button readily accessible. I must addmit that I ruined most of my shots by holding onto the tripod, for fear of the camera coming to grief. The end result was a degree of transferred camera shake - not visibible on the review screen but visible on the computer monitor. I found the 1/800 shutter speed limiting in the bright Australian sunshine without using a ND filter.
The Phase One camera did hark back to my Canon 50D on steroids, but it worked well and I had learned my lesson re the tripod, so the images aew really good. One lesson was the size of the central focus - so when photographing a large flowering plant, the focus just ducked around the flowers to the wall behind and the bricks were in perfect focus - should have slipped the lens into manual focus mode.
This coming week we will make a decision -
Thank you to everyone on the forum who have generously shared their experience.
mal
I am not yet a MFD owner but that is likely to change fairly soon. Have been looking at MFD for about 18 months and this forum, Hasselblad forum and Luminous Landscapes have all been useful sources of information.
However it was not until this week that I had a serious opportunity to take some images with both the H4D 40 and 50 and with a P45+.
First impressions for those of you who have not as yet had this opportunity.
The H4D camera is a joy to hold in the hand. The view through the viewfinder was splendid and the controls with maybe the exception of the mirror up button readily accessible. I must addmit that I ruined most of my shots by holding onto the tripod, for fear of the camera coming to grief. The end result was a degree of transferred camera shake - not visibible on the review screen but visible on the computer monitor. I found the 1/800 shutter speed limiting in the bright Australian sunshine without using a ND filter.
The Phase One camera did hark back to my Canon 50D on steroids, but it worked well and I had learned my lesson re the tripod, so the images aew really good. One lesson was the size of the central focus - so when photographing a large flowering plant, the focus just ducked around the flowers to the wall behind and the bricks were in perfect focus - should have slipped the lens into manual focus mode.
This coming week we will make a decision -
Thank you to everyone on the forum who have generously shared their experience.
mal