When will the Hasselblad X2D firmware update be released that unlocks multi-shot features?

[Paul2660]

As it currently works with the X2D per the beta video I would hope they don’t lock out the X2D and force the newer body. It’s all Phocus dependent as Phocus has had multi shot for years for the older multi shot backs. The X2D will need firmware possibly to get the 6 shots option if they release it.
Paul

 

[budi]

I'm really disappointed now. The new firmware update 4.1.1 is out, and there's still no multi-6-shot pixel shifting, which is very disappointing. Karl Tayler showed us this six months ago, and we're not getting it for tactical reasons. Not a good move by Hasselblad. I'm disappointed. This isn't good form policy. What do you think?

 

[SrMphoto]

I'm really disappointed now. The new firmware update 4.1.1 is out, and there's still no multi-6-shot pixel shifting, which is very disappointing. Karl Tayler showed us this six months ago, and we're not getting it for tactical reasons. Not a good move by Hasselblad. I'm disappointed. This isn't good form policy. What do you think?

We do not know the reasons.

 

[mristuccia]

Since we have seen it working on this generation, if it ends up being enabled only in next-generation products, then we can say for sure that it was a tactic.
Moreover, I don't understand their versioning logic. If it is only some "stability issues" they have fixed, why not advancing from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 or so? Why move from 4.0.x to 4.1.x for some minor fixes?

 

[algrove]

Heck I would just like Auto ISO in all modes, but I would take 400MP files any day too. Maybe the next model will have a joystick for back button focus.

 

[SrMphoto]

Heck I would just like Auto ISO in all modes, but I would take 400MP files any day too. Maybe the next model will have a joystick for back button focus.

Auto ISO in M and highlight clipping in live view are my priorities, less so high resolution modes.

 

[cuida1991]

Is the multi-shot function implemented in 907x 100c digital back?

 

[mristuccia]

Is the multi-shot function implemented in 907x 100c digital back?

No IBIS, no party.

 

[dougpeterson]

Heck I would just like Auto ISO in all modes, but I would take 400MP files any day too. Maybe the next model will have a joystick for back button focus.

Probably better to refer to it as 100 megapixel with multishot smoothing. Otherwise people will get the mistaken impression this produces anywhere remotely close to 400 megapixels of subject detail, which it does not.

 

[SrMphoto]

Probably better to refer to it as 100 megapixel with multishot smoothing. Otherwise people will get the mistaken impression this produces anywhere remotely close to 400 megapixels of subject detail, which it does not.

Hasselblad used to say for its H6D-400c:
"400MP image output coupled with real RGB colour data for each pixel captures"

 

[Ai_Print]

I love my X2D and the system but I am quite surprised by the lack of substantial FW updates, especially given DJI's penchant for it within their drones.

Still no USB-C based wired remote, no greyscale in EVF / rear LCD which means no jpg settings whatsoever. And of course none of the things asked for earlier in this thread.

I think it is all tactical at this point, either an X2D-II or X3D is on the way that will offer this?

 

[Paul2660]

More than likely, yes the follow on will have those features, however there is no reason I can think of other than marketing a new product that Hasselblad can't deliver them to the X2D either. Just a simple sensor cleaning cycle would be great, and the USB wired remote a real need also. But for me the chase is over, can't justify another 8K or whatever the new price will be if tariffs come into play.
The mystery to me is why the 6 shot MS has never been released, it Cleary worked with an existing X2D 7 months or so ago.
I would also LOVE to see the 4 shot added to the Phocus Mobile software, so you could use this feature realistically in the field, and thus use a M3 M2 M1 iPad Pro instead of carrying around a Laptop with a dedicated keyboard. Again, can't understand why Hasselblad can't get tethering to the mobile platform.

Paul

 

[MGrayson]

Programming a function or method is hard.
Code that is more than a page is harder.
Code that you have to diagram and work out the class structure first is harder still.
Working on legacy code is fiendishly hard.
Working on production code that has to work when it's far from you and in the hands of some idiot customer is almost impossible.
Having too many demands on the programmer's time is standard.
Having conflicting and changing priorities from management is standard.

I don't know the reason that this feature hasn't been delivered yet, but I have NO trouble thinking of possibilities.

 

[Paul2660]

But it is already done. It was shown working on a X2D 7 months ago in the video Hasselblad allowed to be released. So coding issues? What would they be that is holding up a working feature. It clearly worked with a beta version of Phocus. Unless the upcoming camera whatever it may be has held up the release of the Phocus version that will support it. Taking the beta version to production.
I am sure it will show up eventually.
Paul

 

[MGrayson]

Demoing a feature does not require a finished working product. It just requires the demo feature to work. Even if, and that's a big if, nothing else is broken, it takes a LOT of testing to be certain of that fact. There is a huge chasm between beta and production.

I was a beta tester for the Leica S3. It was not smooth sailing. Lots of things that Leica thought worked did not once the cameras reached our greedy paws. It took a year for those problems to be ironed out, and a very good camera was eventually released, rather than the disaster that would have occurred if they had simply released the beta.

I can't convince anyone of anything. We'll see it or we won't.

 

[mristuccia]

Well, the X2D 100C Earth Explorer Limited Edition still reports firmware 4.0.0 in its download page.
So, let's not complain too much, there are always people who are less fortunate...



On a side note, I must confess that after pronouncing the entire name of this camera without interruption I am out of breath.

 

[jduncan]

Hasselblad used to say for its H6D-400c:
"400MP image output coupled with real RGB colour data for each pixel captures"

Hi,

Bescause it did. IT was a different technology, instead of the imprecise movements of a stabilization system the Hasselblad H used a high precision piezoelectric microelectromechanical system.
The thins literally place the pixels in the voids among them.

Great technology insanely expensive and very difficult to calibrate, even more so as the native pixel density increases.

Best regards.

 

[Ai_Print]

I think a new X body is getting announced tomorrow along with the Mavic 4 Pro now that the tariffs have been adjusted for the moment.

Just some gut instinct at work…

 

[buildbot]

I think a new X body is getting announced tomorrow along with the Mavic 4 Pro now that the tariffs have been adjusted for the moment.

Just some gut instinct at work…

The HB722 mystery camera that the FCC approved has most of it’s documents become public on the 5/31, so an announcement before then makes sense!

 

[jduncan]

I think a new X body is getting announced tomorrow along with the Mavic 4 Pro now that the tariffs have been adjusted for the moment.

Just some gut instinct at work…

I would be shocked, but I would also love it.

I don’t see any reason to justify the risk of investing in a new X body when there’s no new sensor, unless it’s a full-frame sensor or something extraordinary like that. On the other hand, the 180 days until the manuals and other materials are published is pretty close—perhaps about a month away.

Clearly, I don’t have the insider information that Hasselblad possesses, so maybe it’s worth taking the risk and allocating the resources expected to be devoted to the next big thing.

Fstoppers has a camera they are testing (the only thing we know is that it has a fantastic viewfinder), which will be revealed in 15 days. It could be a new Canon or something else, but if your instinct is correct or close, mid-2025 could end up being an interesting time.

Best regards.