Derek Zeanah
Member
I'm at a point in my life where photography can be something I take the time to indulge in again. For the most part all I'm doing is printing for my walls at home (generally travel photos), and the Fuji X system has reasonable image quality for that. I find I can't print quite as large as I'd like on occasion, but it's not a large burden.
I'm thinking about picking up an H3DII-39 system to slow myself down and have the image quality available to print to 30" (hopefully 40" on occasion, though that's huge) without a whole lot of compromise for those images that warrant that print size. In film days a 500 series Hasselblad would have been fine, and I loved the quality that even old lenses provided. (I believe all of my lenses way back when were the older silver housings.)
I understood the 500C Hasselblad system well; this newer stuff isn't something I've been paying a whole lot of attention to, and I don't really know what I'm getting into other than I can afford decade-old MF gear again. So I guess my questions are:
How is the workflow for images from this system for Windows users?
Are there any gotchas about this system that I need to worry about? As in, other than the back being old-tech, would buying this as my entry to MF digital lock me out of newer products when it's time to upgrade or get new accessories?
Is this a rational choice for moving up to MF digital now that's it's 2017? The great thing about Leica and Hasselblad in film days was that you could buy once and have a great system that would last just about forever with proper maintenance. In digital days though...
Thanks for your thoughts.
Edited to add: I can imagine buying a 500 series camera, some older lenses, and a digital back to fit it, and think I have an understanding of the process and all those things I don't do any more (like meter with a handheld meter, which I probably have around here somewhere...) Is it possible to compare/contrast the experience of using something like this with the newer kit?
I'm thinking about picking up an H3DII-39 system to slow myself down and have the image quality available to print to 30" (hopefully 40" on occasion, though that's huge) without a whole lot of compromise for those images that warrant that print size. In film days a 500 series Hasselblad would have been fine, and I loved the quality that even old lenses provided. (I believe all of my lenses way back when were the older silver housings.)
I understood the 500C Hasselblad system well; this newer stuff isn't something I've been paying a whole lot of attention to, and I don't really know what I'm getting into other than I can afford decade-old MF gear again. So I guess my questions are:
How is the workflow for images from this system for Windows users?
Are there any gotchas about this system that I need to worry about? As in, other than the back being old-tech, would buying this as my entry to MF digital lock me out of newer products when it's time to upgrade or get new accessories?
Is this a rational choice for moving up to MF digital now that's it's 2017? The great thing about Leica and Hasselblad in film days was that you could buy once and have a great system that would last just about forever with proper maintenance. In digital days though...
Thanks for your thoughts.
Edited to add: I can imagine buying a 500 series camera, some older lenses, and a digital back to fit it, and think I have an understanding of the process and all those things I don't do any more (like meter with a handheld meter, which I probably have around here somewhere...) Is it possible to compare/contrast the experience of using something like this with the newer kit?
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