Gadgetory

every now and then you meet a camera that might be worth picking up a couple extra jobs to pay for priced at just over eleven thousand dollars with one of the new lenses the Hasselblad x1d a 50 megapixel camera based off the company's medium format HTC 50c series is the first Maryland medium format and it may fall into that category for me I won't really know that until I've had a chance to test it but the few minutes I had with it did leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling it's seriously compact for a camera with such a large sensor it's certainly smaller than like this full-frame model with a comfortable grip excellent touchscreen large electronic viewfinder and a pretty well designed dust and weather sealed aluminum body the grip is surprisingly comfortable and the mode dial is cleverly designed to be rotatable when up and lock when pushed down there's a quiet manual mode that suppresses the aperture noise by stopping it down while most of the manual controls operate via the touchscreen there are a few direct access buttons for sensitivity white balance and focus plus front and back adjustment dials the biggest question mark for me is the auto focus which isn't as sprightly as I'm used to the lens hunts a bit before locking it's also pretty slow to start up which is typical for medium format cameras that usually doesn't matter as much in a studio where most medium format is used as it does for the more knock around shooting the x1d is designed for it slated to ship at the end of August start saving your pennies now