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BobDavid

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« on: September 12, 2007, 01:45:38 pm »

I just bit the bullet and ordered a Hasselblad CF39 MS back. Anybody have any experience with this back? My primary applications are fine art reproduction, still life, and architecture.
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« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2007, 02:20:51 pm »

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I just bit the bullet and ordered a Hasselblad CF39 MS back. Anybody have any experience with this back? My primary applications are fine art reproduction, still life, and architecture.
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Did you take the time to Demo this unit.

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« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2007, 02:21:02 pm »

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I just bit the bullet and ordered a Hasselblad CF39 MS back. Anybody have any experience with this back? My primary applications are fine art reproduction, still life, and architecture.
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Judging from what you shoot I expect you will be very happy with your choice.
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« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2007, 02:51:16 pm »

Mine is on it's way - should be here next week. I'll report in then.....

Cheers!
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« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2007, 04:01:24 pm »

Hi Bob
What platform is the 39MS going on?

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« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2007, 08:09:53 pm »

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What platform is the 39MS going on?

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It's going on a Mamiya AFD and on a Horseman view camera. I've got a sliding adpator for the Horseman. I've got an excellent assortment of lenses for the Mamiya. I have been using an Imacon 384C and decided to upgrade.
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« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2007, 09:33:33 pm »

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It's going on a Mamiya AFD and on a Horseman view camera. I've got a sliding adpator for the Horseman. I've got an excellent assortment of lenses for the Mamiya. I have been using an Imacon 384C and decided to upgrade.
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Bob,

Can you describe your lighting process when using a multishot back when shooting strobes versus continous light or natural light.

How would this back or any other back deal with still life ex:food, interior elements such as furniture & fabrics for catalog work. I can see the benefits for art reproduction.

Thanks
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« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2007, 09:37:07 pm »

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It's going on a Mamiya AFD and on a Horseman view camera. I've got a sliding adpator for the Horseman. I've got an excellent assortment of lenses for the Mamiya. I have been using an Imacon 384C and decided to upgrade.
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Bob:

For what you do, you've chosen the best quality product available for that type of work. What type of lenses are you using on the Horseman? If you intend to perform multi-shot on the Horseman, you'll need lenses that utilize electronic shutters.

If you wind up using Schneider Digitar lenses, there is an exclusive solution for controlling that shutter with Hasselblad digital backs. Most digital backs need to use a Schneider ES Controller (unless you have Rollei Electronic Shutters) to control the shutter. These solutions are clunky, as they are about the size of a large paperback and need to be put somewhere. The one advantage of using a Rollei Shutter Controller is the 1/500th of a second shutter speed vs 1/60th with the Schneider.

Schneider makes a solution for Hasselblad digital backs that does away with this controller and is simply a cabled solution that provides all the control right in the software. It's more elegant and less expensive than either the ES Controller or the Rollei Controller.

Actually Schneider made a similar solution for the Eyelike digital backs, but since those backs are discontinued....Hasselblad remains the only current product with such a solution.

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« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2007, 09:45:45 pm »

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Can you describe your lighting process when using a multishot back when shooting strobes versus continous light or natural light.

How would this back or any other back deal with still life ex:food, interior elements such as furniture & fabrics for catalog work. I can see the benefits for art reproduction.

Thanks
Oscar
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Oscar:

There is no particular difference other than the quality of the light itself when using multi-shot with strobe, natural, continuous, etc.

Although for strobe, the time it takes to complete the multi-shot might be a bit longer if the power packs require longer than 2 seconds to fully re-charge. A typical 4 shot exposure might take 15 seconds or so (for a 2 second exposure time) with continuous light, where a 4 shot with strobe (with Speedotron lighting for example) that takes, say 5 seconds to fully recycle might go 30 seconds.

The actual duration of the capture is the exposure time plus the recycle time multiplied by 4. So if you had a very fast pack or were shooting continuous light, your exposure time plus recycle time might be X plus 2 seconds, plus about 5 to 8 seconds for the software to composite the multiple captures.

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« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2007, 09:50:10 pm »

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Bob,

Can you describe your lighting process when using a multishot back when shooting strobes versus continous light or natural light.

How would this back or any other back deal with still life ex:food, interior elements such as furniture & fabrics for catalog work. I can see the benefits for art reproduction.

Thanks
Oscar
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Hi Oscar
Hope you don't mind me jumping in. I have been using multi-shot backs for around 7 years now. Anything that doesn't move gets a 4 shot. I do alot of food are mostly do it single shot as #1 it moves and #2 it doesn't really require the resolution being organic and soft edged.
Where 4 shot really shines is with fabrics and pre-screened subjects like packs. Fine type on say a whiskey bottle is a really good candidate for a 4 shot.
Lighting with flash is straight forward just light as normal then select multi-shot, the software will then take 4 captures and "assemble" them behind the scenes. If your flash output is not consistent you will have problems but I seem to get away with using all sorts of old flash units with no problems. Daylight can be tricky if there are clouds about, I always grab a single shot in any case as a back up. Often on a roomset with a model we will 4 shot the set then single shot the model, it's pretty straightforward to then comp the two images.
Hope that helps
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« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2007, 02:05:28 pm »

My CF-39MS has arrived!!

I'm afraid I can't find the words - the 4 shot files are truly spectacular.
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« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2007, 03:31:42 pm »

I currently use a CF39, I always thought it is possible to upgrade it to MS. How does it work, do you get the 4*res module and attach it yourself, do you send your back in and get the same back but with the 4*res module?

(I am not yet planning to upgrade but maybe next year or so).
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« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2007, 03:34:21 pm »

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I currently use a CF39, I always thought it is possible to upgrade it to MS. How does it work, do you get the 4*res module and attach it yourself, do you send your back in and get the same back but with the 4*res module?

(I am not yet planning to upgrade but maybe next year or so).
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The latter.

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« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2007, 04:57:35 pm »

"My CF-39MS has arrived!!
I'm afraid I can't find the words"

Congratulations!
There is a closed user group for Hasselbald Imacon users. Hope to see you there.
Flexframe : Imacon and Hasselblad Back Users
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flexframe/
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