Happy New Year! I'm glad this has been helpful to y'all. His review was helpful to me as well and he had lots of good points. Made me think about some things that I hadn't yet. I have a few different thoughts on a couple things which I'll touch on here. Just a different perspective, I highly encourage you to read his review. The main thing after figuring out that if you shoot only Raw that the EVF comes back almost right away is a huge step. I will try to reach out to Hasselblad to let them know to tell their dealers this, because as people test out the camera, it makes a huge difference in how the camera handles. Right now you also can't copy the RAW onto one card and the jpg onto the other, so this functionality may alleviate this delay. The power up still isn't an issue for me. Sure, it would be great to have it faster, but most people will have two batteries and they are small and light. So if you need to leave it on standby, you should be fine. Especially as the firmware keeps updating and the power management continues to improve. Hopefully spare batteries will be available when the camera ships.
EVF- for me, I'm happy with it. It again, could be like the SL, but it's not. It's large and allows you to do what you need to do and is accurate in terms of exposure/focus accuracy. This is on the one that I have at least. We have to keep in mind that there could be slight variations between cameras, but I've tested another demo camera for 15 minutes and it seemed to be the same. I agree with his take that if you shoot with glasses that you may have a learning curve to figure out the best way to use the evf. I don't wear them and one of the benefits of the EVF/eyecup is that your eye is so deeply seated in it that you feel immersed in the viewfinder. You also fit your eye into it slightly on an angle. This is not something you would normally even notice, but this leads to the downside that if you need to wear glasses you can't get your eye in there far enough to have it on an angle, which leads to his comments about losing 1/8th of the viewfinder. I'm pretty sure he means horizontally and it's so large that it shouldn't affect you a lot. but I can see it being frustrating. I did shoot with sunglasses on, Oakleys, which do have a curve to the lens and I only lost about 3% of the viewfinder that way. So if your glass lenses are curved, it will be easier. It will heavily depend on each persons individual glasses. With all that being said, the eye cup is plastic and it does look like it should be able to be removed. I'm certainly not going to try icon the demo camera. But my guess is that there will be a pretty easy solution to this either directly from Hasselblad or from a third party or custom solution.
I also tried it with gloves on. I didn't have any issues with any of the buttons or front or back wheels. The only thing that I can see being a little tricky is the pop up dial that changes the camera setting Modes, M, S, A, etc. With gloves it tends to want to be pushed back down, instead of turning. It still turned, but it's a little tricky.
TTL seemed to work well with the SB-800 on the hotshoe. Just a note, if you turn the flash on in TTL before you turn the camera on, the flash will show an error message. If the camera is on, it works fine. I also tried it with the Profoto Air controller and Profoto B1 Air. It was a little inconsistent, BUT I probably need to update the firmware. I honestly have never used the flat that way, so some aperture changes it adjusted the strobe setting and sometimes it didn't. My guess is that since it worked with the Nikon flash with TTl this is a firmware issue with the Profoto transmitter, which again, I have never updated the firmware on. It sync'd fine and didn't misfire at all.
Long exposure notes
-If you scroll past 1/15th of a second towards longer exposures, you have the option of T, B, and at the very longest 1 hour 8 minutes.
I didn't try any of these, so I'm not sure of you get a brace frame afterwards.
Image Quality
-I haven't really gotten into this and to be honest I'm wasn't that concerned about it, which is funny considering its a medium format camera and that's what these are all about, right?! :buggies:
The benefit of this sensor is that there are so many cameras using it, so it's been put through the paces and Hasselblad should be able to get the maximum quality out of it, which I think they have. The lenses look really sharp and are very compact. I will most likely use the 45mm XCD and get the H adapter and use my 100 2.2. While I like the 90mm, it's a little repetitive for me. I was going back and forth about the 45 or the 30, but I'm leaning towards the 45 because of the price and it's good for full length portraits.
Here are a couple pics. Maybe the first kiss fro the X1D?!
The previous pics of the dog/nighttime shots were at ISO 6400. the gym with lights was at ISO 400, f/4, 1/125 I think, the hands with white powder was at 1600.
These quick shots were 100, f/8, 1/320.
