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Oct 16, 2023 03:57:53   #
Mwilliamsphotography Loc: Royal Oak Michigan & Palm Harbor Florida
 
Based on your logic, the best all around camera is the iPhone 15.

If your objective is social media posts then the analytics get reduced to the lowest common denominator.

Like it or not, most sites will reduce your file to 2800 pixels on the long side, and you have to reduce the spectrum to 8 bit, using the truncated sRGB spectrum for electronic reproduction. Sure as hell do not need 61 meg FF for that. 24 meg is over-kill.

Besides making photos, I do retouching for major product advertisers ... like General Motors. Much donkey work for cars is done using CGI, but the glamor product stuff and lifestyle stuff is photography. Almost all of the images are done with Medium Format digital cameras ... mostly 100 meg Fuji GFX, Hasselblad H and now the new mirrorless, and of course Phase One. Not one Sony pic to date. Certainly not a cell phone shot, those fall apart when trying to retouch them.

I use a Leica Medium Format camera for most my commercial work, and a Hasselblad H before that, and a Contax before that. If you print your work, you will see a difference from those megapixel-shmegapixels ... and in a big way.

(By the way I use a Sony A7R-IV and A7R-V, and top optics for my less important work).

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Oct 16, 2023 07:10:18   #
yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey
 
Beautiful images - have fun and keep posting.

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Oct 16, 2023 07:20:23   #
Walkabout08
 
Very nice!

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Oct 16, 2023 08:35:20   #
jackpinoh Loc: Kettering, OH 45419
 
The best camera is the one you most enjoy shooting with.

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Oct 16, 2023 10:09:07   #
Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA
 
Beautiful shots Greg. The dew drops look 3D. Awesome sauce!
Jim

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Oct 16, 2023 10:45:46   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 
imagextrordinair wrote:
Here is 20.3 megapixel Canon 1DX MK3 image down sizes to 2.1 megapixels for a screen resolution of 1920x1280 to demonstrate size. A TS lens can do so much when it comes to landscape and portraiture. The resultant sensor size is double that of a Hasselblad.

Take note if you missed it... this image is 2.1 megapixels


Nice work. I have also reduced original file sizes to a few megabytes in post process for client publish - with a good level of resolution clarity. The attached is Hip-Hop artist 'Spinderella' with Head Coach Moton - reduced from 24MB to 3.5MB. This was shot by my wife last week in Durham [NC] with our 24.2-megapixel Sony a9 and Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens.


(Download)

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Oct 16, 2023 10:54:00   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 
MJPerini wrote:
While it's true that you can't see all the goodness on internet pictures, that quality is certainly implied, The smoothness and openness in tones can be seen.
Very nice, Thanks for sharing
I'm happy for you but also Happy that Hasselblad has gotten it right.


You got that right!

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Oct 16, 2023 12:59:07   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 

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Oct 16, 2023 13:49:07   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 
Mwilliamsphotography wrote:
Based on your logic, the best all around camera is the iPhone 15.

If your objective is social media posts then the analytics get reduced to the lowest common denominator.

Like it or not, most sites will reduce your file to 2800 pixels on the long side, and you have to reduce the spectrum to 8 bit, using the truncated sRGB spectrum for electronic reproduction. Sure as hell do not need 61 meg FF for that. 24 meg is over-kill.

Besides making photos, I do retouching for major product advertisers ... like General Motors. Much donkey work for cars is done using CGI, but the glamor product stuff and lifestyle stuff is photography. Almost all of the images are done with Medium Format digital cameras ... mostly 100 meg Fuji GFX, Hasselblad H and now the new mirrorless, and of course Phase One. Not one Sony pic to date. Certainly not a cell phone shot, those fall apart when trying to retouch them.

I use a Leica Medium Format camera for most my commercial work, and a Hasselblad H before that, and a Contax before that. If you print your work, you will see a difference from those megapixel-shmegapixels ... and in a big way.

(By the way I use a Sony A7R-IV and A7R-V, and top optics for my less important work).
Based on your logic, the best all around camera is... (show quote)


Thanks for sharing your expertise and medium format equipment use.
Whatever floats one's boat as a photographer is logical :-)
I am tracking my iPhone 15 Pro Max for delivery in a couple days.

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Oct 16, 2023 13:49:32   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 
Real Nikon Lover wrote:
Beautiful shots Greg. The dew drops look 3D. Awesome sauce!
Jim



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Oct 16, 2023 13:50:15   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 
Walkabout08 wrote:
Very nice!



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Oct 16, 2023 13:50:38   #
dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ
 
yssirk123 wrote:
Beautiful images - have fun and keep posting.



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Oct 16, 2023 14:31:08   #
SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA
 
imagextrordinair wrote:
Not a coward, not spewing and I enjoy talking face to face about print quality and megapixel needs as a professional.

If you consider sensor size and the 100 mpxls spread out on a medium size sensor, the Hasselblad for sure will capture a massively fine image, but at a slower pace. It's ace card is more about sensor size and the quality of the photo sites than its megapixels...

My comment perhaps leans more to who is buying something like the X2D. It truly is the Ferrari of camera bodies and at the high end of professional imagery. The average wedding or magazine photographer may never need more than 12 mpxles but usually insist they need 60 or more.

I find myself considering a Hasselblad purchase at times, but hesitate for the Canon R1 arrival and its possible global shutter. The direction I take will most likely lean to th R1's ground breaking superior performance.
Not a coward, not spewing and I enjoy talking face... (show quote)


No, it’s the Rolls Royce of camera bodies. The Nikon Z8 is the Ferrari.

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Oct 16, 2023 16:07:03   #
nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah
 
Some very nice shots. I really liked the single leaf.

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Oct 16, 2023 21:27:24   #
BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA
 
dhelix33 wrote:
Mentioned in this group the first of the month I had a Hasselblad update being delivered [X1D II 50c to X2D 100c]. This Medium Format mirrorless camera series began with 2016's X1D - which was the first compact [well, relatively] Medium Format mirrorless camera [that I never owned, but was able to shoot a Colleauge's X1D - which is why I did not by this camera design [at ver. 1.0]. The original X1D's image quality was outstanding, but unfortunately the capability for image production left much to be desired. Even the series second model [which I own and intend to sell now] sped things up considerably - like autofocus and processing - wbut as still not quite there.

My Hasselblad X2D camera arrived on Friday last week - Put the camera through the paces Sunday at an event hired to shoot at the hip at events. I shoot in native [RAW] format - the size of each image produced with my Hasselblad X2D was 200mb [I shot over 120 images with the X2D - 110 were step and repeat portraits like the 1st image of Coach Moton and his family]. This productivity would not have been possible with my earlier version 50-megapixel Hasselblad X1D II, with a contrast detection sensor, as opposed to the phase detection sensor in my X2D. While the autofocus system in the X2D is a huge improvement [a tenth of a slower than my Full Frame Sony a9, for the glorious Hasselblad device and I to capture each exposure is not 'slow' to me - more like assuring due diligence in every capture.

That built-in 100c 1-TB solid-state drive - a first for medium format cameras - made my workflow easier. With the internal drive having a write speed up to 2370MB/s, and a read speed up to 2850MB/s], I simply connect the X2D to my iMac for files transfer [faster than the 1TB CFexpress Type B card purchased - which I have set as the backup drive]. What made shooting with my X2D so much easier at an event with about 150 people step and repeat portraits] than the contrast detect [no stabilization] Hasselblad X1D II, were these upgrades:

a) New image sensor. The sensor is the same physical size as the X1D II, but the megapixel count is double. The sensor is 11,656 x 8742 pixels, which actually puts it slightly over 100 megapixels. Huge image files are good, but not if it takes forever to shoot them. This time around I didn't have noticeable any lags. The processor upgrade, paired with an autofocus upgrade that now uses 294 phase detection points makes my ne X2D make noticeably faster than the X1D II.

b) Game changing 5-axis image stabilization [I have shot hand held at 1.0 second shutter speed]. The X2D includes in-body image stabilization, which Hasselblad says offers up to seven stops of stabilization. The company says you can shoot handheld at up to one-second shutter speed, which I saw in my testing. The detail from that 100-megapixel sensor can be stunning in post process [even with edited reduced mb size for internet publish]. Have to let the haters know ['cause haters gonna hate] - this is the best camera I have ever owned or shot with, period.
Mentioned in this group the first of the month I h... (show quote)


I really enjoy mine, but as you noted the feature set is incomplete. Results are spectacular!

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