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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Endeavour on April 28, 2018, 06:43:33 pm

Title: cracked sensor cover - repairable?
Post by: Endeavour on April 28, 2018, 06:43:33 pm
Hasselblad H4D back dropped.

Any ideas if it's repairable and how much it's likely to be?

(https://preview.ibb.co/jkApic/sensor.jpg)
Title: Re: cracked sensor cover - repairable?
Post by: BobShaw on April 28, 2018, 06:58:12 pm
Ask Hasselblad for a quote. They will need to remove the glass to see if the sensor is damaged. Let me know as I need a H4D back.
Title: Re: cracked sensor cover - repairable?
Post by: Joe Towner on April 28, 2018, 07:41:07 pm
As long as the sensor itself is fine, yes.  The part (COATED IR FILTER) when I scratched my H4D-50 was $441, labor was a couple hundred more (2015 prices).  I had a full clean/check with some small repairs and it was $1,250 after tax & return shipping.
Title: Re: cracked sensor cover - repairable?
Post by: Graham Welland on May 13, 2018, 12:57:15 am
Been there, done that. As mentioned the main thing is to ensure that no spalling of the broken glass hit the sensor as this can cause damage (mine did so I always shoot LCC and had it converted to IR).

My Phase One sensor glass was a little more expensive at $800 but the back was determined uneconomical to repair since I killed some pixels with my hit. Thus I had the original sensor frame refitted with a 720nm IR glass and kept the new std IR filter in case I wanted to shoot colour. Capture One LCC mapping fixes my dead pixels perfectly so it was all good in the end.