Jim, out of curiosity, does that Blad you tested also work with the legacy manual focus lenses, or do the newer autofocus lenses have a different mount?
Touching the sky, grazing the moon. I tried to grab the moon in full background to the jet but that's the best i could. This is from the London airshow as I am scrapping through hundreds of images
He needs to join MA2A Forum Jim!
Let's get him interacting with his peers! His brain is still a sponge! He will soak up all members kudos and recommendations for the rest of his photographic life!
Dan
cs3is wrote: Touching the sky, grazing the moon. I tried to grab the moon in full background to the jet but that's the best i could. This is from the London airshow as I am scrapping through hundreds of images
Stellar capture!!!!!
Dan
gerov wrote:
Jim, out of curiosity, does that Blad you tested also work with the legacy manual focus lenses, or do the newer autofocus lenses have a different mount?
Hi Gero,
I believe it can, but with some type of adapter converter. I'll ask them about that. I'm assuming that the legacy Zeiss lenses can resolve 100MP.
Hi Jim, thanks for the response. I was curious as with that sensor and the images you showed us, I was imagining some incredible wide field astro images of the milky way, and I have found that the hard stop at infinity of the older Zeiss/Leica lenses is much more accurate than the infinity setting of the AF lenses, which go slightly beyond the infinity marking. Did you decide to order a Blad with some lenses in the end?
gerov wrote:
Hi Jim, thanks for the response. I was curious as with that sensor and the images you showed us, I was imagining some incredible wide field astro images of the milky way, and I have found that the hard stop at infinity of the older Zeiss/Leica lenses is much more accurate than the infinity setting of the AF lenses, which go slightly beyond the infinity marking. Did you decide to order a Blad with some lenses in the end?
Good Morning Gero,
Yes, I'm working on something with Hasselblad at the moment and if that doesn't pan out I have an order in for the X2DII and the 35-100 for starters. Deliveries are estimated in early October but who knows?
Interesting thoughts on focus. Many of the new lenses are kind of loosely goose when you pop them out of AF mode.
I had a week with the X2DII and, as you saw, put it in as many situations as I possibly could to verify its worth. Still I was just beginning to understand some of its features and limitations when I had to give it back. I would have liked to have had it for a month, but I was able to get a decent feel for the camera in the short time that I had it. Funny, but not surprising, if you didn't pay close attention to it, it was very easy to end up with a mediocre image, a much larger mediocre image.......... I had a couple of instances where I didn't lock the focus point and it wandered on the big touch screen and ended up in a lower corner, no bueno. The menus are simple compared to our full frame cameras, partly because there is no video capability, but there are still a number of parameters that need to be set to get the best results for each shooting scenario. I suppose that, once one spends some time with the camera, it will become second nature. I think it will always be a much more intentional camera than our full frames, shooting from the hip is not something the Hasselblad has ever liked and this camera is no different in that respect.
One thing that pleasantly surprised me was its size and how it handled, not much different than our existing cameras really. The 35-100 will add a little bulk I'm sure, but no more than the RF85/1.2 or a 70-200Z. The X2D II-100C is just another tool and it looks like it will be a long time, if ever, before Canon will step up with a true "large sensor" platform sooooo...........
This weekend had me seriously considering investing in the RF 70-200 Z. So far, I've been able to do just fine with my EF 70-200 2.8 L and adapter, but that seems to be if I'm sitting still. I was running around a park here in Baltimore this weekend chasing cyclocross races, and somehow the adapter would unlock itself while I was walking briskly - fortunately I was on grass the couple of times that the lens actually fell off. Have never had that issue with the RF 200-800. Was talking to a pro photographer who shoots these races for a living - he was using the RF 70-200 and said he liked everything about except for the extending zoom, especially when it rains as it did on Saturday. Another bonus with the Z is that there is no adapter to forget at home (DAMHIK ).
I don't know if you have also heard this, but my local camera shop told me on the phone this afternoon that Canon is going to be raising their prices on October 6.
I had a couple of instances where I didn't lock the focus point and it wandered on the big touch screen and ended up in a lower corner, no bueno. The menus are simple compared to our full frame cameras, partly because there is no video capability, but there are still a number of parameters that need to be set to get the best results for each shooting scenario. I suppose that, once one spends some time with the camera, it will become second nature. I think it will always be a much more intentional camera than our full frames, shooting from the hip is not something the Hasselblad has ever liked and this camera is no different in that respect.
