Godfrey
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This may be a silly question (intrigued X1D II owner here), but how do you shoot portrait-orientation shots on the 907x? Is there a "rotating back" setup like a Mamiya RB/RZ, or do you just awkwardly turn the whole thing and not flip up the screen?
Note that most of my shooting with the 907x so far has been tripod mounted. Like with my Hasselblad 500CM and SWC cameras, I find the 907x particularly well suited to tripod shooting. In this respect, it's a fundamentally different camera from the X1D models which are much more akin to a 35mm SLR in shape and handling character (much like the*FF Leica SL, Panasonic, and Nikon EVF cameras).No rotating back so it's the awkward turn AFAIK.
- Most of the time, I crop to square, no rotation needed like I always had with Hasselblad V system cameras. That's a nice 39 Mpixel camera.
- When I use full frame, I shoot horizontals most of the time.
- When I want to shoot portrait orientation, I have used a right angle bracket to keep the camera centered over the tripod.
Hasselblad showed an accessory control grip and an optical viewfinder mount in prototype photos when the 907x was announced. The connections and locating pin are there on the bottom of the 907x body. When these accessories are available, the 907x will be a less awkward hand-held camera, much like my old Mamiya 1000S and Pentax 645 6x4.5 SLRs were in the past; the Pentax had a built in grip and right angle finder as standard, the Mamiya had the same things as accessories. They worked well, but obviously a 35mm SLR design camera, like the X1D, is a better camera for fluid horizontal/vertical hand-held use.
Certainly, if I were looking for a camera with that kind of shooting in mind, I'd choose the X1D over the 907x as a matter of course. I was intent on the 907x as an extension and update to my Hasselblad V system, with the modularity of a separable back being used interchangeably between the 907x and 500CM bodies with their respective lenses.
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