Shane Taylor
@heroesforsale11 Aug
New Framelines Video
Hey all. Here's a new Framelines video where I talk about an absolute beast of a camera (after giving it a proper use over six months)
I'm here for the beasts
I hope the vid doesn't disappoint
Will check it out 👍
No pressure!
Yeah! I's a beast! But so soooo expensive! Nice video!
its crazy but i guess hasselblad and medium format cameras have always been this expensive.
great thanks Shane now I want one ;-)
Mission accomplished
Always nice to come home to a Framelines video. That things looks incredible! Can’t blame you for selling out and becoming a shill for Hasselblad. Good thing we still have Josh to retain some of the dignity of the Framelines brand.
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The X2D II ($7,200 USD used) autofocus sounds amazing but since it came out, the cost of the X2D has come down quite a bit (~$4,000 USD). Same image quality. I love mine, but I use a Leica Q2 for street photography most of the time.
Depth of field is narrower, so focus is more important than on cameras with smaller sensors.
The X2D could work for street photography depending on which sub-genre. For the shot of the guys in suits, I set up the shot, turned off autofocus, and waited for people to walk into it.
I did the same for the skateboarder. But I was stationary, lying on the ground. It has a burst setting, but it's very few frames per second.
For walking around and shooting from the hip, you can sort of set a high aperture and zone focus, but the focus ring may get bumped. The focus ring doesn't stay in place like it does on a rangefinder lens.
The X2D's autofocus is good for portraits where the photographer and subject are both stationary and subject's eyes are clearly visible. I've found that it rarely works well for anything else. It almost never works for shooting from the hip.
Most of the time I manually focus with focus peaking.
I pulled those jpgs from Flickr, they look like crap. See better versions:
https://flic.kr/p/2r9FWrk
https://flic.kr/p/2sjBRgh
Kinda wish they'd use the tech they have to make a modern, metered version of the 500cm with ground glass focussing and no LCD. Sod practicality, however I do like the convenience of aperture priority metering and the beauty of looking at the world through ground glass.
Did you see Canon's prototype of a digital TLR?
I did, and I like the concept, but if they do something full frame it will mean a smaller bit of glass to match. I think that would make me feel sad.
Do you think it’s possible that Fujifilm could emulate this strategy by making an X-PRO 4 that only takes photos. All processing power and stability only used towards helping us take a beautiful photo. Brighter LCD, better manual focusing technology.
I would love to see more manufacturers focus on the experience of using the camera, rather than the image quality, since we've pretty much hit peak image quality.
I really liked that video and your perspective on the camera. For the camera itself, in reality my Leica is already overkill for what I use it for, but I simply like the Leica user experience over anything else I tried. I don’t think the Hasselblad would offer me that, but it may well do that for others that have the deep pockets to purchase it.