Comments on: New Hasselblad DSLR: 40 MP for only $20,000.

By: Michael Alan Bielat

Michael Alan Bielat — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:05:56 +0000

I was the owner of a Hasselblad H3D-31 for a bit and the files were absolutely stunning. I used the camera for my fine art landscape work but I gave it a go at some portrait and wedding photography jobs… Why not right?

So yeah the files were killer! What I noticed more was the fact that the Hassy kept a better gradiation between the highlights and shadows than my Nikons or other DSLRs… Also colors accuracy was much more robust… Great right???

Well, now take a typical wedding job and throw in some huge files into your workflow… Hassy’s Phocus software yields the best results for the camera but takes forever to work with… So all in all, more trouble than it’s worth for a wedding in my opinion, especially when a bride and grooms wedding album is maybe 12×12″ in size and a lot of the images are about the size of wallets…

So I sold it and now have a brand new car…

By: Rod Pascoe

Rod Pascoe — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:55:43 +0000

Dear Santa …….

By: Trent Ernst

Trent Ernst — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:11:14 +0000

Hey, I still have a couple 20Ds; I wish I could shoot at 1600….

But most wedding photogs are spoiled what with their One Billion ISO D3s and 5D M IIs….Once you’ve shot in pitch black, you can’t go back….

By: Chris Whitcomb

Chris Whitcomb — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:58:16 +0000

I’m sorry, if I could sell all of my equipment and get enough to purchase this beast, I’d do it yesterday! It was not that long ago that we were jumping up and down for joy that we could even use images shot at 1600 and now your saying that will keep wedding shooters away from it. Slap a flash or a PW on it to trigger OCF and I’m all set.