WARREN CONNECTICUT – The Hasselblad CFV 100C experiment continues. Today I’ve mounted the back on my Hasselblad Superwide C (SWC) camera. Because the sensor on the digital back is substantially smaller that the SWC’s 6x6cm film format, the camera isn’t really superwide, just pretty wide.
Here’s a landscape cropped to square. The rendering is classic SWC and lovely. This is the reason that I’ve undertaken this experiment. The problem is that focusing is critical with the digital back because it has much higher resolution that legacy film, but the SWC has no focusing aid. Using liveview on the digital to focus is difficult from an ergonomic point of view. Only about a third of my captures with this setup were acceptable from a technical standpoint. I might be able to improve that with practice but not by a lot.
Day of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 15 years to Tanzania. Day 317 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
