Thank you very much. I must add, that after being here for several years now, I have for long time acknowledged that I am on a much lower level of knowledge and handling capabilities than the majority of you guess and girls - which mean that the only program I have found out is C1. Yes, and in the beginning, admitted, I only spend half an hour at Lightroom, where I even could not find out importing a file - I gave up, and turned solely to C1, which for me was very intuitive, and I could avoid reading anything about it, just doing it - so therefore I would/will sell my grandmother to ensure staying by C1 .I found myself In the same situation regarding X1D files in C1 and have successfully used a process that was suggested on this forum some time ago. It involves making a small modification to the Exif data and, having used the principle regularly for some time now, can report that it works well - and the Exif Editor costs less than $10.
Ive compared images that Ive processed directly from Phocus, Lightroom and C1 (via LR and the Exif mod) and, whilst there are differences in the results, the final images can be adjusted to be near identical. To my eyes anyway.
Phocus is a perfectly competent bit of software but Im used to C1 and much more comfortable working with it than I am with Phocus. Thats probably just down to familiarity but Im happier going through the fairly simple process of Exif editing my best X1D images in order to bring them into my comfort zone of C1. I think its worth the small cost and extra fiddle but, of course, others may not agree.
This may be a bit paranoid but Im a little bit nervous of Phase closing this loophole (if thats what it is) so wont detail it here - although it is similar to the one described on the thread I mentioned earlier. Im happy to describe my process though if you want to send me a PM.
Oh and in answer to your original post, Im very happy with my X1D as a lightweight MF alternative to my Phase kit. Its a lovely little camera to use and, although it will never match an IQ3 100 for outright quality of course, it produces some excellent images. I just have to be more careful with my framing compared to the (rather lazy) cropping that I can do in Post with the IQ3 file. :thumbup:
Paul
I do have had and still have, unaltered, a very soft spot for Hasselblad, so that extremely elegant and well-designed "pocket-MF" has all time just been that sweat dream. The 110/2 FE with adapter is about 146mm long, ok not exactly a compact-lens, but not longer than fex. the 135 XCD.
KR Thorkil