Phase One have a comprehensive range of Digital backs for Hasselblad H. All current IQ series as well as P+ series digital backs are manufactured for Hasselblad H1, H2 & the new H4X camera.
For more information on the range of Phase One digital backs, please go to the Phase One digital backs section of this website.
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Some years ago when Imcon (a digital back manufacturer) and Hasselblad "merged", the new Hasselblad soon introduced the H3D system and closed it's system so that you could only buy back and body as a matched kit, and you could not use use a Hasselblad H3 with any other manufacturers digital back. This obviously aggrevated the Hasselblad users and general photography community, whilst companies like Phase One still committed to an open-platfom approach to the products they provided.
Since this process Hasselblad have also release a series of HCD lenses what would not work with Hasselblad H1 and H2 (or Fuji GX645) cameras. Again this upset existing users of Hasselblad H1 & H2 camera systems.
Well with the recent sale of Hasselblad and the new management brought in by that process, Hasselblad have changed their minds (a little) and have decided to create a Hasselblad H4X camera that is compatible with 3rd party digital backs (that are H mount).
The Hasselblad H4X is a camera body delivered with the CR-123 lithium battery grip, and without viewfinder. It is offered solely as a trade-in product in return for an H1, H2 or H2F camera body.
Hasselblad include the option for adding a new viewfinder with the purchase: either HV 90x-II with magnification matching the large 60 megapixel or 80 megapixel sensors, or HVD 90x matching the 36x48mm or smaller sensors.
The H4X camera body is build upon a H4D camera unit with a DRIVE button instead of the ISO/WB button, which requires tight integration with the digital back.
The firmware is tailored for the H1/H2/H2F, and it offers the following new functionality:
The Hasselblad H4X upgrade from H1, H2 pr H2F will hopefully be available in Feb 2012.
No. The new H4X camera is designed to upgrade the functionality of the current H1, H2 and H2F camera users only. To exchange the new camera it is required that the old H1/H2/H2F camera is returned to Hasselblad. It will not be possible to buy this camera, but only trade-in. If you are an H3D customer, you can not exchange that camera for a new H4X trade-in camera.
The H4X camera has the same compatibility as the H1/H2 cameras to 3rd party digital backs. A back that worked on H1/H2 will also work on the H4X.
All viewfinders on the H1/H2/H2F bodies are compatible with the new H4X. However, we know that some may like to update their viewfinders to match the current sensor, and can be purchased at a special price (when purchasing the H4X).
You will not get the Hasselblad lens corrections, as the lens corrections are guided by the facilities offered by the chosen 3rd party back.
You will have the lens corrections as offered by Capture One, in connection with your Phase or Leaf back only.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. Please note that the HCD lenses are designed for a slightly smaller format than the 60/80 MPixel sensors and some image corner quality degradation can be noticed in some cases. For most applications this will be difficult or impossible to notice.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. However, please note that the advanced lens corrections performed by Phocus software in combination with the metadata logged during the HTS use, is not available for 3rd party backs.
The camera is delivered with the CR-123 Battery grip. You can of course purchase the rechargeable battery grip or the DC Power Grip and use it with the H4X camera. Please note, that none of these batteries power the 3rd party digital back.
No, but of course the 3rd party digital back has its own power source.
Software can be upgraded at a local Hasselblad service centre. Contact your local dealer for more details.
The HV 90x and HV-90x-II are designed for the full film format and will work best for film and the 60/80 MPixel sensors. The HVD-90x is designed for the 36x48mm format and suits the 22/39/40/50 MPixel sensors. These two viewfinders and the waist level viewfinder are all available for purchase.
Functionality of the H4X includes, True Focus and all the other functionality not related to full integration. For example, the ISO/WB function button has been replaced with a 'drive' button on the H4X, and will therefore need to be set manually on the 3rd party back.
Yes. The unique qualities of True Focus will work without any limitation on the H4X, as it functions exclusively between the H4 body and any Hasselblad lens.
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The Hasselblad H lens range is divided into 2 classes, the HC range and the HCD range.
The Hasselblad HC range of lenses were initially developed to work with full frame 6x4.5 film. Their adaptability to digital has been very good and HC lenses can be used with full frame digital backs like the Phase One IQ180, IQ160 and P65+.
The HC range :
The Hasselblad HCD range of lenses were designed to work espcially with the smaller than full frame sensors (36x48mm or smaller) in the 39 and 50 megapixel H3D and H4D range . Hence if you use them with a full frame 645 digital back you will get vignetting in the corners of your images (or if you use them with an H4D-60, the image is automatically cropped to a smaller size.
The HC range :
Designed for the HCD28mm, HC35mm, HC50mm, HC80mm and the HC100mm lenses the HTS 1.5 adds, in effect, five different "tilt and shift lenses" to the Hasselblad HC/HCD lens range.
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