Cloud Study

This was one of the first shots that I took with my new Hasselblad H3DII, with the 24 mm wide angle lens. It may not be readily apparent in the small jpeg uploaded for this blog, but it's quite amazing how three dimensional this image appears. The camera is 31 megapixels, which is not really that high a resolution compared to the higher end H5D for instance, which can go as high as 50 to 120 megapixels. But the detail is quite apparent, which is not always a goal of mine anyway. The H3D has a much wider tonal range than other cameras I have owned, although my Leica still competes very well. The strong element of the Leica is always the lens. They simply cannot be beat. The Hasselblad HCD lenses are very good as well. But the digital back on the H3D has sophisticated software that does a lot of correction for the lenses. I like the Hasselblad for landscapes and my Leica more for people shots. I will be doing more portrait shots in the near future with the Hasselblad.

First Hasselblad Image

This is my first post in few months, and I have some new images to present. I recently bought a new camera, well, actually used, but like new. My new camera is a Hasselblad H3DII with a 31 megapixel digital back. With the camera I also picked up 2 lenses, a new 28 mm HC and a used 50 mm HC lens. Both are wide angle lenses, the camera being a medium format. The 28 mm is equivalent to a 18 mm and the 50 mm is equivalent to about a 35 mm in the 35 mm camera lines. The camera produces beautiful images with very nice colour. It definitely is a different colour than what my Leica produces. I'm not sure which I prefer, but I love them both.

This image was taken with the 28 mm, inside an old run down garage a few miles from my home. I was a bit surprised at the colour that I was able to extract from the raw image. It was quite dark inside the building with a bright sky coming through the roof. At first I thought I would try HDR to get the full tonal range in the image, and I did try to use Photomatrix Pro HDR software to produce an image, but I was not very successful at getting a nice image. So I simply used Photoshop to work  up the image. The detail in the images that this camera produces is amazing. A jpeg cannot do it justice.