Re: Official: Hasselblad X1D-50c Medium Format Mirrorless
alundeb wrote: GMPhotography wrote:
Hassy and Phase shooters shoot 300mm and longer.
I shoot landscapes and seascapes with long exposures up to 400 mm and even 560 mm with FF. What Medium Format lenses longer than 300 mm would you recommend? Does any of them have a leaf shutter so it can be used with the X1D?
More or less exactly my point...
On another topic — the \"crop factor\" for the medium format cameras compared to full frame — things can be a bit complicated. One way to measure this is sensor area; another is diagonal measurement. The tricky thing is that they have a 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the 3:2 we are accustomed to from full frame. How you regard the different sensor sizes is affected by how you feel about aspect ratio.
If you love 3:2, you\'ll lost a bit off the top/bottom of the MF 4:3 ratio frame, thus making the difference between the two seem smaller and producing a smaller difference in effective crop factor. On the other hand, if you are like me and you prefer the 4:3 aspect ratio you are currently losing the right/left sides of the 3:2 full frame images in order to get that and you would get the whole frame with MF. From this perspective the crop factor difference seems larger.
(From my perspective, I\'m comparing a usable 33mm x 44mm image area to a 24mm x 32mm area.)
Something to consider. For anyone stumbling on all those comparisons, my point is that for me and others who like 4:3, the image area advantage of mini MF is slightly larger than it would be for those who like 3:2, and the way we look at the crop factor the difference in focal length required to achieve the same image on the 4:3 area of the frame is larger.
Dan
Jun 27, 2016 at 10:29 AM
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