Fujifilm has lowered the bar of entry to digital medium format cameras considerably, permitting many to benefit from the bigger sensor dimension with out having to spend the value of a brand new automotive. Nonetheless, Hasselblad has choices that at the moment are in step with higher-end full body cameras, so how do they examine?
I’ve owned and used each Hasselblad and Fujifilm digital medium format our bodies, and there’s a lot to say about them. Whereas I like each techniques and luxuriate in utilizing them, the GFX is nearer to my workhorse attributable to little else than {dollars} and cents. Not solely might I get the Fujifilm GFX 50R at a low value, however the lenses accessible — each Fujifilm and from secondary producers — are at a decrease value and provide a wider choice. If my finances had been bigger, nevertheless, what would I’ve purchased?
It is tough to say for certain, however since its announcement, I’ve longed after the Hasselblad 907X 50C and an XCD 80mm f/1.9 in an irrational method I have not felt for the reason that GAS stage of my youth as a photographer. The shape issue definitely went a great distance with me, however it’s greater than that. Utilizing a Hasselblad is an expertise that is tough to unpack. It is a slower, extra tactile course of — as most medium format cameras are — however it felt extra rewarding than with my full body our bodies. Then there’s the dynamic vary, the very good colours, and so forth. I might like to have that mixture, however the query was whether or not my love for that pairing was value extra to me than $4,000+ further in my pocket.
On this video, ZP Productions goes by among the variations between the 2 techniques, the advantages of every over the opposite, and why he would nonetheless like a 907X.
