Godfrey
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I took the 907x fitted with the 45P lens out on my late isolation exercise work last evening. The light was nice ... growing, evening overcast as the sun was setting, soft illumination with some direction.
An amusing difference between walking with the 45P vs the 21 lens is that in the latter case, the length and weight of the lens dominates the camera and it hangs nose-down as a result. The 45P lens is so short and so light that the heavy part of the camera is the CFVII 50c back, so it hangs tail down on the neck strap.
I had on bicycling gloves with touch-screen enabled fingertips ... While not quite a responsive as my actual fingertips, it worked well throughout the walk (about two and a half miles through the local neighborhood streets). The LCD was very visible and easy to see for framing and focus in the available light; I mostly used autofocus and pointed to specific points on the LCD for focusing. Pressing the X button re-centers the focus point instantly ... excellent design. The LCD is visible at quite a wide angle so I often don't need to flip out the screen even with a relatively low shot.
Given how young the firmware on this camera is, it comes up with only a few glitches. I've mentioned the "nose down on a copy stand with a lens adapter" issue before this. In last evening's walk, I found the control interface on the LCD became unresponsive just once ... Powering the camera off and on solved it. I've sent notes in to Hasselblad on both these issues, it'll be interesting to see what the next firmware revision does (as well as if it supports the video function which is as yet not working).
The other thing I'm looking to get a handle on is to see how many exposures per charge I can expect from the batteries. I now have the Hasselblad dual charger unit and three batteries, all numbered so I can use them in rotation as I usually do. Last evening's walk started with the battery showing about 70% capacity when I started and remaining capacity at the end was 38%; I made about 150-180 exposures with power down set for 5 minutes and screen power off in 1 minute. That says about 350-400 exposures on a charge is possible when you're just shooting and doing minimal review time and control manipulation, which is just fine by me.
The camera and this lens performs beautifully! Very few of the exposures I made are anything but perfectly focused with excellent exposure. I'm in progress picking out a few to finish render and post.
I've ordered a 62mm to Series VII (54mm) stepdown ring so I can play with fitting my Leica ELPRO VIIa/b close up lenses and see how nicely this configuration might perform for quick copy work. I've also done some preliminary testing of the 907x with Phocus Mobile 2 using my iPad Pro 11" ... seems to work well, but it doesn't give me a Live View on the iPad screen, which is a little disappointing. Presumably that's a matter of some firmware and app development yet to come, as is the iPhone compatible version of the app.
More photos soon...
G
An amusing difference between walking with the 45P vs the 21 lens is that in the latter case, the length and weight of the lens dominates the camera and it hangs nose-down as a result. The 45P lens is so short and so light that the heavy part of the camera is the CFVII 50c back, so it hangs tail down on the neck strap.
I had on bicycling gloves with touch-screen enabled fingertips ... While not quite a responsive as my actual fingertips, it worked well throughout the walk (about two and a half miles through the local neighborhood streets). The LCD was very visible and easy to see for framing and focus in the available light; I mostly used autofocus and pointed to specific points on the LCD for focusing. Pressing the X button re-centers the focus point instantly ... excellent design. The LCD is visible at quite a wide angle so I often don't need to flip out the screen even with a relatively low shot.
Given how young the firmware on this camera is, it comes up with only a few glitches. I've mentioned the "nose down on a copy stand with a lens adapter" issue before this. In last evening's walk, I found the control interface on the LCD became unresponsive just once ... Powering the camera off and on solved it. I've sent notes in to Hasselblad on both these issues, it'll be interesting to see what the next firmware revision does (as well as if it supports the video function which is as yet not working).
The other thing I'm looking to get a handle on is to see how many exposures per charge I can expect from the batteries. I now have the Hasselblad dual charger unit and three batteries, all numbered so I can use them in rotation as I usually do. Last evening's walk started with the battery showing about 70% capacity when I started and remaining capacity at the end was 38%; I made about 150-180 exposures with power down set for 5 minutes and screen power off in 1 minute. That says about 350-400 exposures on a charge is possible when you're just shooting and doing minimal review time and control manipulation, which is just fine by me.
The camera and this lens performs beautifully! Very few of the exposures I made are anything but perfectly focused with excellent exposure. I'm in progress picking out a few to finish render and post.
I've ordered a 62mm to Series VII (54mm) stepdown ring so I can play with fitting my Leica ELPRO VIIa/b close up lenses and see how nicely this configuration might perform for quick copy work. I've also done some preliminary testing of the 907x with Phocus Mobile 2 using my iPad Pro 11" ... seems to work well, but it doesn't give me a Live View on the iPad screen, which is a little disappointing. Presumably that's a matter of some firmware and app development yet to come, as is the iPhone compatible version of the app.
More photos soon...
G