Hasselblad XCD 90V in Hand: Redefining The Moment
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- We've been waiting for this 90mm f/2.5 (the full frame equivalent field of view/shallowest depth of field of a 72mm f/2) for a long time!
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00:21 Sample images
00:45: Intro & Disclaimer
01:09 Streets 2024 Workshop
04:58 XCD 90V Basics
06:49 Top Line Summary
09:46 Detailed Analysis
17:27. Verdict
20:24 Wish List
22:12 The Bigger Picture
27:22 Squarespace
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Hi Hugh, your reviews really grab my attention with your enchanting voice and kind way of speaking, making every watch enjoyable. The way you share technical details, like telling a story to a child at bedtime, is truly special. Even though there's a lot of technical info out there from many TH-camrs, your style is both impressive and captivating. I'm excited to have found your amazing channel.
What a simple, and profound, joy it is to watch your videos. Seriously, the most poetic and intelligent photography content, generally. And then there's the end bit of this video -- lovely. Thank you for sharing, sir.
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I caught this as soon as it popped up. I would watch it for 24 hours straight just to get to the last five minutes. Beautifully done and beautifully said.
Thank you, brother. 🙏🏻
What Phillip said. Thank you Hugh.
Unexpected and moving. Been there, have the photo. ❤
@@bmwohl thank YOU. 🖖🏻
A remarkable and heartfelt ending. Having been there both with image and with loss, it’s more than meaningful. Amid tears, grateful to you Hugh for this poetry.
Hugh you have reminded all of the power a photograph can illicit. Looking at your photo and listing to your words I flashed on photos of my parents in their youth and ones I took near the end. The memories and emotions they carry will always be with me. Thanks.
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Thank you for sharing that vulnerable and special moment with us. I’m sorry for your loss.
Wow Hugh. How true. We all end up on the platform, so often somewhere we didn’t expect to be, blindsided on some idle Tuesday afternoon (as ‘Sunscreen’ told us it would). Capturing that moment in an astonishing image, with as personal a meaning as it is possible to have, forever connecting you with the moment, the location, and the camera in an indivisible bond that defines the difference between a snap and a photograph - an unique window into our own life.
Your YT videos really are on another level. Thank you. 🙏
Thank YOU. 🙏🏻🖖🏻
I’m sorry for your loss Hugh. I’m also touched that you were, and are, able to see beauty of that frame and of the celebration of life that comes from the celebration of a life.
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Hugh I could listen to you for hours! The soul of photography, that's why we're called to it
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A profoundly touching and deeply insightful moment, which no one else could have delivered in the manner I’ve just witnessed right now. I’m sorry for your loss, Hugh. My turn will come soon enough, and the lump in my throat after watching you confirms my dread is justified. Take care, old boy, and thank you.
Thank you, Peter.
May her memory be a blessing. You guys are tributes to the good that is possible in this world.
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Wonderful and brilliant in every way. Optical engineering meets artistic intent. Joy, sadness and reflection. Thank you for putting good vibrations into the world.
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Wonderful video Hugh. Personal, touching and honest. I’m sorry for your loss.. I know those feelings cannot be expressed in words fully and I know you will express them with your images. All the best.
Thank you.🙏🏻
Hugh, the end part of that video was…. Remarkable. Thank you for such a different perspective.
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Epic! Hugh, you‘re one of the rare reviewers whose work has this stunning literary quality to it.
Thank you, Joseph!
Oh Claudia, your images are OUTSTANDING. WOW, thank you.
Woah! Gorgeous video with a fantastic finish. Thank you so much for this one. Appreciate the personal powerful story.
Thank you for being so supportive.🖖🏻🙏🏻
Always love when I see your videos come up here, Hugh. Also figured this is as good a place as any to say how much I appreciate you and what you bring to the community here.
Thank you, Benj. I am sorry we didn’t spend more time together when we last met. 🖖🏻
WOW HUGH,OUTSTANDING what a video. Everything the images , the 90 V, WOW, I am stuned. I will watch this at least another dozen times.
Thank you, Thomas! 😊🙏🏻🖖🏻
Ordered this lens 8 months ago...still waiting . This video moved me... sometimes...well, most of the time.....hold that thought...we end up exactly where we should be. Take care Mr Brownstone
Hallelujah - I ordered mine 13 months ago - apparently it is now on its way - Good one Hugh
That's a wonderful frame. The black and white rendering is sumptuous-would love to see an aesthetic comparison with the M11m.
Hugh, Love the last few minutes. I think you captured what I feel photography is really all about. Can you convey to the viewer the emotion you felt at the time? Photography (for me) is creating the image which speaks spirit to spirit. Sometimes that requires speed, features, etc. As I grow older - it requires lightweight, relatively compact gear that can be with me frequently. Ideally, that ggear has a simple menu, reasonably quick and accurate auto focus (old eyes) and beautiful colors. I am finding the X2D and a few V lenses meet those criteria. Thank-you for your wonderful videos.
Thank YOU for sharing your thoughts!
The New SL is coming and Hugh had to keep it somehow inside :) Lovely to see it :)
Excellent and touching video. My heart resonates with your loss and I feel for you as you recover from a parent’s loss.
As someone who has been drooling over the X1+2D system, and not wanting to review all of your videos on the Hasse system at the moment, I would find it helpful to have a list of the best lenses for the X2D. Which ones can’t I live without in terms of image quality should I invest in the system and which ones can I wait on?
A a newcomer to your channel, I appreciate your honesty and candor with regard to your critiques. I was looking forward to this lens and was not disappointed. I was transported to a different plane listening to the last and looking at the last image. Be well and thanks.
Welcome, David - and thank you. 🖖🏻
Simply terrific in so many areas! Beyond excellent!
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Happy Hannukah! Sorry for your grief!@@3BMEP
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At 3:37, the way you look at Claudia is adorable. I am amazed year after year that I can love my wife MORE than I loved her before. And I loved her so much already. Thanks for your photos Claudia and Hugh.
Hugh, thanks for the comprehensive video. Because we can’t watch it in 8K, just as an idea, some other youtubers and reviewers put a link into the description to some of the raw files for downloading them.
The Profoto A2 is for me a perfect companion on the road. I cannot work without them
I watch/listen, not for the photos/gear but for the “write”. To artists of said genre: I tip my hat sir.
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Dear HUGH, absolutely incredible, PEACE to brother.❤
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HUGH THIS IS BY FAR YOUR MOST PROFOUND WORK. WOW
Thank you, Thomas. 🖖🏻
Fantastic video, beautiful photography, and the most golden voice on youtube. Outstanding!
Wow, thank you!🙏🏻 😊🖖🏻
Outstanding, Hugh, even by your standards. The review was superb, but the essay exceeded it.
My one-word review of this video - Poetic.
Definitely nitpicking, but I believe both Fuji and Rodenstock/Phase One provide MTF charts at 40 lp/mm, and Rodenstock even provides it at 80!
That’s not not-picking for me, Marc, that’s new information! Thank you!
Excellent review and insight of photography!
Thanks, Gil!
Hello Hug, Just to say as some one who has both the X1D and X2D cameras with a number of the XCD lense (none of the new V) on the X2D this new firmware dose seem to make the camera a bit quicker. The new update and fixes just make the camera even better. I do love the Hassleblad X system
Enjoy!
Memorable images and stories conveyed through photography and narratively. Whilst the Hasselblad may be beyond my means currently, the authenticity presented in this video is priceless.
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Amazing content, super inspiring and your channel helped me pick up my first Leica which I love.
Wondering if you've ever come across some play between the X2D lens mount and the lenses themselves. Have seen a few reviewers talk about their lenses having a small amount of wiggle. Small, but still concerning on a camera body like the X2D
Thanks, Philip. I have not seen any play between lens and body.
Well, Hugh, this review stands out - it really does , but in a way that it is less emotional and more formal .
Although all forms and sorts of review “etiquette” is present , it is really different from all your other reviews .
I do also understand that real reasons cannot be posted here in text , for various reasons.
But shall I see you are “blinking twice” behind the curtain :) and confirms my feelings.
- Thank you, for this !
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Great review, and at the end, I thought you were talking about my father’s passing.
Could you please answer a question? I have heard in other reviews that the 90MM 2.5 is “noisier” than the 2 other new 2.5 lenses. Has this been your experience, or could these be just be production issues??
Thanks!
Thank you, Richard!
I love music hint to space era! For the Moon Camera brand
Thanks Hugh -- I wait to watch your review of the new Firmware 3.10 for the X2D and Phocus 3.7.6 for Mac -- this has brought a version of Face Tracking AF to the X2D -- "a version" because unlike continuous AF servo style one has to life and press the finger on the shutter button to grab focus and it is more of an AF-S than AF-0C after that -- so less good for moving shooters/subjects. Karl T posted a vid indicating that H was working on this. I confirmed that the new AF tracking works with my older XCD lenses 1.8/80 and 4/21 not just the latest "V" lenses. Perhaps when H provides genuine "continuous" AF servo the new lenses will be the ones this works best on. But for now both Tracking and Live View for tethered shooting are long awaited and so I am overjoyed they have just landed.
Continue to enjoy - I am more bullish on Hasselblad than I have been in quite awhile.
Cool video, Man 🤟
Keep me posted, please!
With words that hit every nail on its head, a wonderful and insightful review Hugh. That last photograph hit me too. A thousand words indeed. I’m sorry for your loss. You’re exactly where you need to be.
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The manual focus scale.....I'm blown away. First i've heard this. I can view other vids for confirmation. I would have a different reaction after spending 14k
Thank you for this review Hugh. Four months ago, when you did your X2D 10 months on review, I asked you 'on the new f/2.5 lenses, with manual focus clutch engaged, did you find manual focus quick (close to M lens on SL), or hard to do quickly because of lag / variable response?', and you replied, 'close enough, sometimes…', and then 'Manual focus does NOT feel like mechanical focus, but the degree to which that matters is a personal preference. 😊🖖🏻'. That was with the 38/2.5V and 55/2.5V were available. In this, review of the 90/2.5V, you discuss manual focus, but don't address this point specifically. Overall you seem much more positive about the 90/2.5V or perhaps the system generally (was it the magic of the platform shot?). Are you feeling different about the system now? Did you feel the manual focus frustration with the 90/2.5V that you did with the 38 and 55 V lenses? Or are you simply gelling with it more this time around?
You’re right about how one image can - and has (for me) in the past - make one reconsider a piece of gear. With the face detect upgrade, I am simply less inclined to focus manually, and I think the 90 optically superior to the 38 and 55, although I did like both in the real world.
Hugh you get your hands on all the good stuff. It’s ok I am still luvin my old XT2. Does everything I need to do really but admit I dream Leica at night.
I understand. 😊🖖🏻
Thanks for that Hugh. I've had the SL APO 75mm f2 and wasn't quite as impressed with its rendering and sharpness on the SL2 as some reviewers have been. The sharpest lens I have ever owned is still the Canon EF 300mm f2.8ii L, even when matched with the modest resolution of the 1DX mark ii. The SL APO 90mm f2 might have come closer to the Hassy but, as you say, on the SL2 the performance won't reach that of the Hassy lens and MF digital sensor. I'll be in France all of next year. I'll check out your dates for the Paris workshop. Cheers from Oz.
It will be fun to trade notes in Paris!
Still, I think that I'll keep my 90mm 3.2...
Very nice end!
Going on a whim here but I have the x2d and paired it with the otus 85 1.4 (w/xcd adapter) although it’s manual focus I use focus peaking, I’m just wondering as far as image quality if it would in comparison to the 90v, render more of a native mf hassy look than the zeiss. And that’s besides the af leaf shutter benefits. It be hard to discern the differences since both lenses are not compared, but my guess would be that the 90v would give a more buttery smoother look with more hassy accurate colors than the otus. My rhetorical statement here thinking you’ve worked with otus lenses before 🙏
I haven’t worked with Otus lenses in years (if memory serves, it was just one lens and I don’t remember which one now), so I really couldn’t say, sorry!
I’m sorry about your loss.
How does it compare with Sony G Master lens ?
Maybe it's just me... but Hassy in not 6x6 still doesn't feel right
It’s just you
90mm on baby-MF is truly a difficult field of view to compare to on full frame. 85mm is the closest though a different beast in itself. Curious how the Nikon 85mm f/1.2 would stack up next to the 90V-though again big differences in both resolution, FL, DOF, and size. 🤔
I understand your point and appetite for the comparison. 😊🖖🏻
Is that Verne from Syracuse NY?
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I am invested in the Profoto system. What trigger do you use for the strobes? Does it use TTL?
Profoto Connect Pro. Yes it does.
My deepest condolences - I typed out that question before I watched the whole video.
The Nikon compatible triggers for profoto.
Hugh, another amazing video. Hopefully I’ll join one of your Street workshops soon. I love Hassies but when I made a recent upgrade decide against the move to the system for all the reasons you listed. The primary pain point for me was autofocus. While Hasselblad may not wish to hear this they really need to focus on autofocus. IMHO Hasselblad should just reach out to Sony and license their new AI autofocus technology. I have it with my A7R5 and it’s simply amazing.
As do we! 😊🖖🏻
24:45 - 27:20 .. amazing
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No nikon z lens comparison?
Didn’t have one on hand!
@3BMEP aww man.
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your story was very moving - should have said that 👍 @@3BMEP
All 90mm Hasselblad V reviews on youtube came online 17 hours ago from all reviewers.
So it means that they all are paid, where is a disclaimer?
Sigh. 1) your premise is wrong; but 2) my disclaimer about a sponsorship is up front in my video itself - and labeled as such.
@1Firstdivision you said the exact same thing on Mitch Lally’s account, stop with the hijacking and focus on the content or gtfo, whaaa cry more
I dont know whose better with the gift of gab regarding photography Hugh or @GxAce. I would love to see a collab with the two.
Met him once - nice guy.