It was mentioned that the weight difference is big. I must be reading the specs wrong but on the websites Phase One has the XF100 with the 80mm lens at 2180 grams and Hasselblad has the weight of the H6D with the 80mm lens at 2130 grams. I have the XF100 and I have not handled so perhaps the Hasselblad is easier to handle. I must admit that the handling the XF100 has been OK. My biggest complaint is the total weight when hiking into an area - a 50 gram weight difference won't matter to me.
About the weight difference - we tested it on our own.
I compared my PhaseOne XF IQ380 + Prism with an SK 80mm LS (Blue ring) against the H6D-50c + Prism with 80mm f/2.8 and the weight difference was almost 700g. That's huge - also the balance is much better on the Hassy.
Hasselblad said 2130g complete with Prism, Body, Back, Battery, Card and lens. On the PhaseOne site it says: XF with Prism 1390g + IQ100 695g + SK 80mm 500g => 2585g without batteries or card.
For me who shoots 95% handheld and this on long commercial-shoots, it's very important. I had no Problem shooting one hour straight with the H6D, but when picking up the Phase, after a few minutes I want to let go if it, because of the weight.
And no, I'm not weak guy
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I started in medium format with the Mamiya AF then AFD and was looking to get a digital back. I bought an ex rental H1 Hasselblad with a Phase One digital back and was hooked on Hasselblad. Everything was much better on the Hasselblad than the Mamiya AFD which became the Phase One camera, but still looks like a brick.
I then upgraded to an H2 with the Phase One back and was using Capture One to process. I found the image quality was good but did not like the separate batteries which the Phase One back just ate. Also if you want to use it on a view camera you have that wake up cable problem. I made my own cable and used a one shot system to overcome it. Capture One was OK but I didn't think it was good as Aperture which I already used. This was version 7 so it has no doubt improved.
I then had the opportunity to get an H3D-II 31 and found it to be a far better system with the integrated back. I have since upgraded to an H3DII-39. I sold all of the Phase / Mamiya gear and have never looked back. All in all it is a much better camera and system. I look longingly at an H5D or maybe X1D in the future. I also shoot Canon for anything that needs action or portability. The X1D will overcome the portability and give medium format in the backpack.
A lot seems to be made of Capture One vs Phocus. Most of it seems to be from people that don't understand that they perform different functions. Phocus is a raw converter and capture tool and that is it. It excels at these things, particularly if you do reproduction as the colour correction if required is built in. It does not do Digital Asset Management at all. That is something we all hope for but use other programmes for currently. The answer is that you simply export a TIFF or use Photoshop after FFF conversion. Photoshop doesn't do DAM either, but no one complains about that.
Capture One and Lightroom are jacks of all trades, but to me they are master of none.
I still use Aperture for DAM. It works reliably. I think it is better than Capture One and supports all of my Smart Albums. It also works on a server which Lightroom doesn't. Capture One works on a server but doesn't support Hasselblad, so it is not an option for me.
So if you are looking to get into Hasselblad you won't be disappointed and the Phocus thing is just something that people who don't use Hasselblad just say to make themselves feel better. (:-)
These are some good insights. Thank you for that.
About the battery issue. The new XF still uses two batteries, but are the same. Sadly I couldn't test the new H6D batteries which have more power - I was testing the H5D's Battery. And I have to say, that the PhaseOne XF does a better job here.
An important point is that the new H6D-Batteries cost almost 400.00 in my country. And I need at least 5 spare batteries. That are some costs, compared to 80.00 per P1-Battery.
As I've said, the Phocus Software does it's job very good for rendering the files and export as TIFF.
I wouldn't "develop" the files in Phocus or do anything bigger to it. That's mainly because I work in Photoshop almost all of the time, and second, I'm used to the results in Capture One. But over time, this can change
