p.24 #1 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
algrove wrote:
Agree, could be good, but most manufacturers of adapters tend to focus on what's currently for sale and those old S lenses are at least 6-8 years old.
Maybe we can get Fringer or Kipon interested. They love the dead mounts.
p.24 #3 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Yeah, all good points…I am definitely going to pick up a 28P, and maybe sell the 55v when the 35-100 arrives…we’ll see how I get on with the 28p, need 1-2 lens solution for travel and lots of options, 28p+55v, 28p+75p, 38v+75p or 90…the smart move might simply be 38v, 90 and 135 for everything and forget about the 35-100…I am taking it slow…the X2D2ii is a brilliant camera no doubt…but the SL3 would cover all my needs a little more easily with greater range, the SL3 + 28-70 might make a good travel kit as well.
It is good to have choices, but will focus on the X2Dii for now and try to enjoy as much as possible.
flash wrote:
Early on I adapted a lot of H lenses as there wasn’t much choice early on. I still have the 100, 150, 200 and the 35-90. I really liked the 150. The 200mm was OK but not spectacular and neither is as optically good as the 135 which is just brilliant, even with the 1.7x. Also the XH adaptor has become harder to find. The 100 is a portrait lens for sure. The zoom is really big and I liked it but basically stopped using it when the 35-75 arrived. All my H lenses supported AF.
I still have my SL3’s and I agree the Sigma contemporary primes are just fantastic. But I don’t really use it much at all. I love the camera and when longer lenses are needed it’s great except the lack of EFCS REALLY annoys me. Sometimes my S1Rii pulls more detail (it has EFCS) from my L tele primes. And I now use Sony A1ii’s for long lenses. I picked up the 28-70 f2 and 50-150 f2 for it and they are sensational on an A7R5. I’ve learnt the menus. They’re awful but I know them. I also got the Sigmas for the Sony as well but they see little to no use currently. I thought maybe they’d be used on the A7CR but that camera just doesn’t inspire me, despite how good the files are. I still almost always choose the X2D(2) over it as well.
For my use case, as I collected all the XCD primes my use case for the SL3 and Sigma’s has basically collapsed. When I go to take the SL3 out, I always end up with the Hasselblad. What has happened is I use my M’s and Q3’s a bit more.
The other thing I found, apart from the SL3 is that all these little cameras need attachments to be comfortable. A thumbie for the M or a grip for the Q3 and A7CR. Basically to make them work with anything longer than a 50 they need help and then they’re simply no smaller, functionally, than the Hasselblad. The new V/P lenses are fatter but not that much longer or heavier than their 24x36mm counterparts and 9 times out of 10 I prefer 4:2 over 3:2.
So I absolutely get you miss the SL3. I’m just wondering, would you use it if you were to re-acquire it, or is a 28 and 90mm XCD lens a better choice, even though you’re getting the zoom? Still having both I don’t know that you’d not regret repurchasing a SL3.
p.24 #4 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Ugghhh…no scratches yet on mine but was hoping more durable than X2D
RomanMF wrote:
Paint on the X2D II is definitely baby soft. Lugs got scratched putting on the strap, which went on without fuss, and took me less than 10 seconds 😅
p.24 #6 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Glad we're past the point of total denial from the fanboys when it was obvious from the start
For what it's worth, I've taken my strap on and off a few times on my Earth Explorer and the lugs don't look as bad as the X2Dii pics out there, so they must have changed the paint.
p.24 #7 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Rod.smith7 wrote:
Yeah, all good points…I am definitely going to pick up a 28P, and maybe sell the 55v when the 35-100 arrives…we’ll see how I get on with the 28p, need 1-2 lens solution for travel and lots of options, 28p+55v, 28p+75p, 38v+75p or 90…the smart move might simply be 38v, 90 and 135 for everything and forget about the 35-100…I am taking it slow…the X2D2ii is a brilliant camera no doubt…but the SL3 would cover all my needs a little more easily with greater range, the SL3 + 28-70 might make a good travel kit as well.
It is good to have choices, but will focus on the X2Dii for now and try to enjoy as much as possible.
Skip the 28-70. It's not great wide open. It really needs to stop down for sharpness at any focal length. The Sigma 24-70II is much much better.
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RoamingScott wrote:
Glad we're past the point of total denial from the fanboys when it was obvious from the start
For what it's worth, I've taken my strap on and off a few times on my Earth Explorer and the lugs don't look as bad as the X2Dii pics out there, so they must have changed the paint.
Mine too. I'm not particularly sensitive to wear and tear marks but the Earth Explorer is better than the vanilla X2D. And I think the mk2 is better again. That's a low bar though. I do not have high expectations from the mk 2. It could be worse. It could be the mk 1 XPan.
p.24 #9 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RomanMF wrote:
Paint on the X2D II is definitely baby soft. Lugs got scratched putting on the strap, which went on without fuss, and took me less than 10 seconds 😅
I have taken mine on and off a bunch of times now and it has all smoothed out like my X2D did. I think it just has to break in.
p.24 #12 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
I'm curious for the people that moved from the X2D to the II...are you finding that EV 0.0 ends up metering a little bit darker than the X2D did? I'm finding that I'm having to basically raise the exposure by at least 1/3-1/2 a stop on every photo in post where I rarely did that before.
p.24 #13 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RoamingScott wrote:
I'm curious for the people that moved from the X2D to the II...are you finding that EV 0.0 ends up metering a little bit darker than the X2D did? I'm finding that I'm having to basically raise the exposure by at least 1/3-1/2 a stop on every photo in post where I rarely did that before.
I went back and compared my final LRC settings after eliminating all exposures where I used exposure compensation and found that the remaining settings for both cameras were the same… 0.0.
p.24 #14 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RoamingScott wrote:
I'm curious for the people that moved from the X2D to the II...are you finding that EV 0.0 ends up metering a little bit darker than the X2D did? I'm finding that I'm having to basically raise the exposure by at least 1/3-1/2 a stop on every photo in post where I rarely did that before.
Not my experience up till now (after about 12K pictures).
p.24 #16 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Following up, it was having HDR turned on that was causing it, as it locks the camera into "smart metering". A helpful fellow on Reddit explained it well and pointed me to his pretty comprehensive write up of HDR shooting on the X2Dii: https://blog.tonalphoto.com/x2d-ii-hdr-raw-jpg-capture-mode/
p.24 #17 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RoamingScott wrote:
Following up, it was having HDR turned on that was causing it, as it locks the camera into "smart metering". A helpful fellow on Reddit explained it well and pointed me to his pretty comprehensive write up of HDR shooting on the X2Dii: https://blog.tonalphoto.com/x2d-ii-hdr-raw-jpg-capture-mode/
FWIW, I have HDR turned off, which might explain why I didn't see any difference. Thanks for sharing the write-up!
