[Leica] The new Hasselblad is announced

[Mark Rabiner]

I don't get the square format medium format cameras dead statement.
None of those cameras went under. Hasselblad, Rolleiflex and a few others.
645 remained a bargain basement medium format for people who had to feel
like they were shooting 35. Square format Hasselblads dominated wedding and
event shooting till the end.


On 6/22/16 9:17 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:

> Sometime in the long ago, some marketing guy thought the rather obscure 645
> size ( remember the A16 Hassy back?) was MF.  At that time, there was 6x6 and
> 645.  ( and 6x7; 6x9; and even 6x8). All the numbers referred to film size in
> mm.  They all used a common 120 film size. 
Then someone thought that 6x6 was
> a dead end and there were no more 6x6 cameras being made. They were all
> 645....the other sizes went dead.
So magically, 645 became the MF standard
> (and only size). 
With the advent of digital, 645 became a ratio (4:3), not a
> mm size, and so now we have digital MF sensors that measure 44x33mm

There are
> larger sensors.... But none measure 56x56 mm, the old time MF standard

We can
> only hope some sensor in the future will measure 56x56mm. My CF lenses will
> cover the sensor, easily. 

Frank


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On Jun 22, 2016, at
> 6:58 PM, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com>
> wrote:

Neither for me I think, I don’t like operate on cameras in Menu mode
> neither with EVF, on the other hand this one is not exactly a MF camera, IMHO
> it is equivalent to a smaller 4,5 x 6, the CMOS sensor is 43.8 × 32.9mm, for
> me the true MF (at least in film)  is 60 x 60 mm (2 1/4" x 2
> 1/4”).

Lluis




> El 22 juny 2016, a les 23:16, Frank Verizon 2 2016
> <red735i at verizon.net> va escriure:
> 
> Appears to be a Leica SL on steroids,
> at a discount store price. 
> Does 2 lenses sound familiar?
> No zoom yet, no
> H lens adapter yet. 
> Fully electronic lens to body connections mean that
> CF,C, and F lenses will not work, unless they make a special adapter
> available
> 
> It is substantially lighter than my Leaf + 500CM system, a good
> thing.
> 
> I am unconvinced it is a path for me.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
>
> <http://www.hasselblad.com/x1d>
> 
> 
> 
>
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