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In 2017, Zhongyi Optics announced a pair of fast, manual-focus Mitakon prime lenses for the medium-format Fujifilm GFX mirrorless camera system. One of the lenses, the Mitakon Speedmaster 65mm F1.4, has now been announced in a new version for the medium-format Hasselblad X system. Hasselblad's X series cameras, like the...
Following yesterday's awards for the Best Camera for Beginners and Best Camera for Enthusiasts, today we're looking at professional-oriented camera models. Typically, we put all "pro" cameras together in a single category, but 2022 was packed to the gills with so many pro cameras across different sensor sizes, we opted...
Update: RAW files have now been added to the X2D 100C Gallery.
The Hasselblad X2D 100C is Hasselblad's newest medium-format mirrorless camera. Unlike the prior two X-series cameras, 2016's X1D 50C and 2019's X1D II 50C, the X2D 100C includes a higher-res...
Hasselblad's new 100-megapixel medium-format camera, the X2D 100C, is an extremely stylish camera with fantastic image quality, to boot. I recently had the chance to go hands-on with the new camera, my first experience with a Hasselblad camera. While my full hands-on...
Hasselblad has announced its third medium-format mirrorless camera, the X2D 100C. It joins the company's two 50MP mirrorless cameras, the X1D and X1D II.
The highlight feature is a new backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor with about 102 megapixels of resolution – like the Fujifilm GFX 100 and GFX 100S cameras. The...
Even an experienced, talented photographer like Thomas Heaton can come up empty on a landscape photography expedition. Most of the time, a rough day of landscape photography is due to bad light or weather. Sometimes, as we'll see in the video below, it's a mixture of bad luck and misjudging a scene. We often think about...
Hasselblad released its first camera, the HK-7, 80 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary, Hasselblad has unveiled the 907X Anniversary Edition Kit. The 907X Anniversary Edition Kit will be limited to 800 units worldwide and draws inspiration from the iconic SWC camera. The 907X Anniversary Edition (AE) features an...
In June 2019, Hasselblad announced the development of a modernized CFV II 50C digital back and a brand new 907X camera body. After first being sold as a very limited Apollo 11 commemorative edition, a standard Hasselblad 907X, coupled with the CFV II 50C digital back, is now available for preorder.
The CFV II 50C...
Hasselblad has announced a flurry of new products today, capped by the reveal of the X1D II 50C, the successor to the X1D medium format mirrorless camera. The X1D II 50C is the second generation medium format mirrorless that brings 50-megapixel medium format image...
Nature macro photographer Ghislain Simard has been photographing insects since he was 10 years old. As an accomplished photographer, his childhood love of photographing agile flying insects has remained. Simard has become well-known for high-speed photography and has even designed his own tools to freeze bugs such as...
Every year, Lensrentals has done their best to compile a list of the most rented equipment out of their stores, and with 2018 being their biggest rental year ever (they keep growing!), they thought it prudent to share their findings from 2018. Now if you only read the comment section on this website and others, you might...
At an event where everyone is trying to make the biggest splash and grab the most attention (Photokina), Hasselblad decided to do the opposite. Shirking tradition, and what literally everyone else at Photokina is doing, Hasselblad quietly announced three new lenses: the XCD f/1.9 80mm, Hasselblad’s fastest lens ever and...
DJI has announced the latest addition to their long line of aerial cameras, the Mavic 2 Pro and the Mavic 2 Zoom. DJI is calling the Mavic two series the "most advanced DJI camera drone(s) ever built," designed for professional, aerial photographers and content creators. Featuring a new, Hasselblad-branded camera, the...
Photographer Karl Taylor has extensive experience in the photographic industry, having worked with numerous types of camera technologies for over 20 years. Hasselblad is incredibly confident in their latest digital medium-format cameras and has asked Taylor to show the differences between 35mm and medium format in an...
In January, Hasselblad announced the H6D-400C, which can capture 400-megapixel images using its new Multi-Shot technology. Jaron Schneider wrote here on Imaging Resource about the camera and about cameras with such high-megapixel counts in general, asking "Why the hell do we need 400 megapixels?"
It's a good question...
With Olympus' big firmware news already covered in a previous article last week, and Senior Reviews Editor Mike Tomkins on his way back from the WPPI show plus a shoot with the brand-new Sony A7 III in Las Vegas, our regular Firmware Friday roundup necessarily took a brief hiatus last week. We return in style this...
Another week has reached its end, and with the weekend beckoning it's time for our weekly roundup of all that's new on the firmware front. This week, our Firmware Friday roundup includes news of bug fix updates for three cameras from Hasselblad and Ricoh, as well as a promise of a significant feature-enhancing...
Last week, Hasselblad announced a new version of their medium format camera that is capable of producing 400 megapixel images. Generally the first reaction to this kind of thing is of course, “oh wow, that’s wild!” But for me, it was a resounding, “Why?” Off and on over the course of digital photography, the industry has...
With more and more full-frame cameras now including a multi-shot mode, such as the new Sony A7R III, Hasselblad has released a new medium-format model with its own "Multi-Shot" technology, the Hasselblad H6D-400c MS. The camera is equipped with a 53.4 x 40 millimeter 100-megapixel CMOS sensor which captures 16-bit color...
Hasselblad has announced the winners of its 2018 Hasselblad Masters Awards. The latest edition of the contest set a record for entered images with 31,500 photographs being submitted for consideration. This represents a 175% increase over the 2016 edition of the contest.
The competition is one of the most prestigious in...