On 2018-03-18 20:01:54 +0000, Savageduck said:

On Mar 18, 2018, Alfred Molon wrote
(in om):

True. It's a Hasselblad, not a Fuji. Not sure why I confused it with a
Fuji.

I guess that if you start with the similar sized sensors it is easy enough to
make that leap.

But the strangeness remains - why this Hasselblad medium format camera
has no mechanical shutter and needs 1/3s to read the sensor.

Agreed. One would think that with all their experience, and the knowledge
that users would undoubtably want to use a wide selection of lenses with
appropriate adaptors that they would have taken that into account. It is
almost as if they had no thought of users using anything other than Hassy
lenses.

You would expect that especially a Hasselblad camera wouldn't have these
problems.

It does make you think that perhaps the Fujifilm GFX50S would be the better
option.

Fuji has been producing cameras for Hassy since the XPAN that was a
rebranded Fuji 35mm UWA system. Some H cameras have been sold under the
Fuji brand and was developed by them too. With Japanese firmware no
need to say! The Hasseblad lenses have mainly been Fujinons since H1...
Hasselblad has it's headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark and makes the
databacks for the Hs and scanners themselves. IIRC! Since Hassy was
sold to overseas interest in the mid nineties and the new owners
decided to dump the digital development for short time cash revenue
maximisation very little has happened in Hassy wise in Gothenburg. The
now mostly Danish operation had Imacon (databacks) as a nucleus.
Hasselblad is still registered and has it's legal seat in Gothenburg,
Sweden. Just to get the history right..

No need to say that the the H series is inspired by the Mamiya 645 that
that was a blatant chepoo copy of the Hasselblad 500c/m.

Confusing Hasselblad with Fuji is a rookie but minor misstake!
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