Cambo Aptus DB: Any Landscape Photographer?

[Boinger]

will the actus work with the hasselblad 1xd?

best m

No it will not the x1d does not have a shutter. Nor does it have a method to talk to the shutter on a technical camera.

 

[Audii-Dudii]

No it will not the x1d does not have a shutter. Nor does it have a method to talk to the shutter on a technical camera.

I'm not looking to buy an X1D any time soon, mind you, but its lack of a shutter isn't necessarily fatal for my purposes -- I photograph mostly at night and use long enough exposures that I time them with a stopwatch -- provided, of course, that there is some way to make it start and stop capturing an image on demand.

Does anybody know if the camera will work without a lens attached or is there an interlock mechanism that prevents that?

Right now, I photograph with a combination of a Sony RX1 and an A7R with adapted lenses on a modified view camera. But if the X1D will work without a lens attached (and for the record, I'm guessing that it won't), I potentially can foresee replacing both of them with a single X1D and lens at some point down the road.

 

[Boinger]

I'm not looking to buy an X1D any time soon, mind you, but its lack of a shutter isn't necessarily fatal for my purposes -- I photograph mostly at night and use long enough exposures that I time them with a stopwatch -- provided, of course, that there is some way to make it start and stop capturing an image on demand.

Does anybody know if the camera will work without a lens attached or is there an interlock mechanism that prevents that?

Right now, I photograph with a combination of a Sony RX1 and an A7R with adapted lenses on a modified view camera. But if the X1D will work without a lens attached (and for the record, I'm guessing that it won't), I potentially can foresee replacing both of them with a single X1D and lens at some point down the road.

That was my thoughts initially as well. I talked to the hasselblad rep at launch and from what i understand it needs a lens attached.

 

[Audii-Dudii]

That was my thoughts initially as well. I talked to the hasselblad rep at launch and from what i understand it needs a lens attached.

Alas, this was also confirmed by an owner in another thread. Drat!