Digital Medium Format Thread

Managed to get some ok pics with the Mir 65mm... Bit busy by the waterfront ...


Some possibly nsfw pics... Amsterdam pride I took the 65mm Mir on camera nd a 200mm pentax plus 2x extension. However when I got there, I found I didnt have the pentax adaptor... oh well
 
It was the Steam Engine Rally this weekend just gone and we went back in the evening, took the GFX so all these are shote after 8:00pm and a range of ISOs up to 12800, have reduced in size to fit on here but on the big screen here they look OK.

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Pentax 645Z, 120mm - which is reasonably good - ISO 640

No sharpening or texture added here.

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So I'm new to medium format, just picked up a GFX100RF to act as a travel camera for a couple of trips I have coming up.
I'll also be picking up the Hasselblad X2D II after the release announcement next week, as I slowly start to transition away from Canon for personal photography.

I took some pics of my GFX100RF this evening, why is it no matter how much you clean them, you see no dust and once you take pictures it looks like they're covered in dust? :eek: :ROFLMAO:
I'm still learning after only having this for 2 days but I'm excited to embark on my medium format journey :)


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From the reviews the XCD II 100C has come of age, its what the XCD 100C should have been from the off!! Hasselblad have some nice compact lenses (quite fast in MF terms as well) and the new zoom looks decent (though pricey)

Looks a nice system. It will be interesting to see how Fujifilm react to this.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
From the reviews the XCD II 100C has come of age, its what the XCD 100C should have been from the off!! Hasselblad have some nice compact lenses (quite fast in MF terms as well) and the new zoom looks decent (though pricey)

Looks a nice system. It will be interesting to see how Fujifilm react to this.
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If I had the spare money and I wasn't shooting primarily weddings, I would definitely be buying one of these. I don't have 10k for the camera and 55mm, sadly unless I sell a LOT of primarily film kit which I don't particularly want to.
 
Downhill Specialist said:
If I had the spare money and I wasn't shooting primarily weddings, I would definitely be buying one of these. I don't have 10k for the camera and 55mm, sadly unless I sell a LOT of primarily film kit which I don't particularly want to.
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My wife and kids are going to be eating beans on toast for the next few months after buying the GFX100RF 2 weeks ago and now this :eek: :ROFLMAO:
 
I was photographing a MacMillan event in Scotland yesterday, so I thought I'd take my GFX100RF with me to grab a few pics if I had the opportunity.
I'm still learning as far as this camera goes, but so far I'm very happy with the results, image quality is outstanding.

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Just looking on the phone, but lovely colours.

Is it just the shape of the land or do the bottom 2 images slope down to the right?
 
Hanley said:
I was photographing a MacMillan event in Scotland yesterday, so I thought I'd take my GFX100RF with me to grab a few pics if I had the opportunity.
I'm still learning as far as this camera goes, but so far I'm very happy with the results, image quality is outstanding.

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The depth of tone and colours is incredible, as is the detail. Medium format eat your heart out!

Agree with Toni, I think 2 and 3 need a very slight anti-clockwise straighten.
 
Fringer have released an AF adapter for Pentax 645 lenses to GFX. I got mine yesterday and tried it out with a 55mm, 120mm macro and the 150-300mm I've for sale (long story!). It works really well - it has a small motor in it for the screw-drive autofocus that most of the Pentax lenses use, but will also work well with lenses with internal focus motors (such as the 55mm). Focal length and lens name are both reported to the camera, so IBIS works. The lenses are fun to use and generally light compared to some Fuji equivalents. They won't necessarily have the absolute image quality of native Fuji glass, but they are very worthy alternatives, and worth using!

There's a good thread on the adapter on the US Pentax forum here:
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New P645 - GFX adapter with AF and electronic contacts from Fringer - PentaxForums.com

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I'll have a play over the next few days and post some images when I get a chance!
 
First proper test of the dynamic range of the Hasselblad X2D II.

My wife and I went on a trip to 'Edge of the World' in Riyadh, while we were there we got talking to another group of people and they were Virgin Atlantic cabin crew, and they were working on our flight home the following day, so we got chatting and I offered to take some pictures for them.

Normally in such a backlit situation like this, a fill flash would be ideal, but I obviously didn't have one with me, so I exposed the shot for the sunset and knew I'd be able to recover the shadows in post.

This is an example of the end result, this is one of the shots I got of one of the cabin crew, X2D II and the XCD 28P lens, ISO 200, 28mm, F8 and 1/90 (got away with not realising my shutter speed was a little too slow, I'd been doing some scenic shots and lowered the shutter speed to keep the ISO down, knowing the IBIS would still give me sharp images, but then forgot to adjust when I started taking this shot).

Slight adjustment to the sky, dehaze and added warmth, increased the shadows on the subject and landscape.

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Hanley said:
First proper test of the dynamic range of the Hasselblad X2D II.

My wife and I went on a trip to 'Edge of the World' in Riyadh, while we were there we got talking to another group of people and they were Virgin Atlantic cabin crew, and they were working on our flight home the following day, so we got chatting and I offered to take some pictures for them.

Normally in such a backlit situation like this, a fill flash would be ideal, but I obviously didn't have one with me, so I exposed the shot for the sunset and knew I'd be able to recover the shadows in post.

This is an example of the end result, this is one of the shots I got of one of the cabin crew, X2D II and the XCD 28P lens, ISO 200, 28mm, F8 and 1/90 (got away with not realising my shutter speed was a little too slow, I'd been doing some scenic shots and lowered the shutter speed to keep the ISO down, knowing the IBIS would still give me sharp images, but then forgot to adjust when I started taking this shot).

Slight adjustment to the sky, dehaze and added warmth, increased the shadows on the subject and landscape.

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That's very impressive, especially how clean the final result is.
 
Thomasb1982 said:
They are really great shots. I also got my x2d ii on release. very impressed so far! just trying to decide if I need the new zoom along with the 55.
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I've gone back through the pictures and used Phocus to do the initial RAW conversion, applying Hasselblad's noise reduction and colour science (HNCS I think it's called).
I then export to a 16-bit TIFF and finish editing in Lightroom, and I think the tone of the pictures is so much better, they're also much cleaner.

I'm just getting used to this additional step in my workflow but I think it's very much worth it.
These are the same 2 shots I posted above but re-edited in Phocus Desktop.

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