First outing with the Hassie

Today I ventured out with the Hasselblad, catching the early light in some photographs slightly reminiscent of the Night Walks series I’ve done before. It was nearly a complete failure: as I was about to head on out with a big bag filled with gear, I noticed the two batteries from the digital back, then noticed the digital back as well! Disaster averted, I had hoped to do quite a bit more whilst I was out, but the medium format camera really slows you down. Which is one of the reasons I want to use it, to be honest.

The location I chose was the same as that visited yesterday with the Fuji compact. I wasn’t really happy with the results from the X10, but to be fair I wasn’t playing to its strengths; it’s not really designed as a “landscape” camera, and it wouldn’t be fair to compare it handheld against the Hasselblad on a tripod. I guess that’s what I’m sort of doing though.

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At these scales, there’s not really much in the way of discernible difference, but I wouldn’t be happy printing the Fuji picture much above about an A5 (although I’ve not tried), but the Hasselblad photograph… It could easily go larger.

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Yes, unfair to compare, and different focal lengths, ISOs, etc. so not really going to take this much further. The Fuji doesn’t need an expedition pack to use though, unlike the Hasselblad. I can’t remember the last time I took the big bag of bits out with me, but this time I had to.

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The Fuji didn’t need any processing to get rid of hot pixels and sensor dirt either - dirt I expected to have to deal with on a semi-regular basis. Hot pixels I’m a little disappointed with to be honest - I’ll look into remapping the sensor later.

And finally, another photograph of the only McDonalds in the Valley:

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It looks a little average at this scale, but much better when you see the full image.

I guess I won’t be using these images in their native square format as it would seem a little odd what with all the others being 3:2, but I might crop them down and add them to the galleries later.

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