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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: chiek on May 13, 2015, 11:31:38 pm

Title: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: chiek on May 13, 2015, 11:31:38 pm: Very easy user interface like a mirrorless camera.
Live view on and adjusting the composition and focusing in enlarging live view.
and Shot ! Excellent for photographers.

test video with my TC (travel concepts) cameras.
https://youtu.be/DSYWvJkNGtA (https://youtu.be/DSYWvJkNGtA)
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: tjv on May 14, 2015, 07:38:09 am: Looks great. How are you finding it with movements? Are you also using it with Rodenstock / Schneider lenses?
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: ciccio on May 14, 2015, 10:26:51 am: :) ;) :D excellent !!!! congratulations !!!!!!
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: Kabraxis on May 15, 2015, 05:29:05 am: Nice chiek :) congratulations for your nice setup, I'm real looking forward for your impressions of the back in combination with 35mm lenses.
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: Steve Hendrix on May 15, 2015, 08:38:10 am: Quote from: Kabraxis on May 15, 2015, 05:29:05 am
Nice chiek :) congratulations for your nice setup, I'm real looking forward for your impressions of the back in combination with 35mm lenses.

So Phase One's A-Series marketing was appropriate after all?

Steve Hendrix
CI
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: mueller123 on May 31, 2015, 05:00:52 am: HI Chiek,
have you test the Back with large format lenses too? How good is tilt and shift? Are there problems with colorcast?

Could you zoom to 100% and review the sharpness at liveview?

Is this firmware a beta firmware form hasselblad. The normal firmware has only liveview this there program.

Thank you.
Best
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: Paul_Claesson_HasselbladUS on June 01, 2015, 09:12:58 am: mueller123
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Could you zoom to 100% and review the sharpness at liveview?
Yes

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Is this firmware a beta firmware form hasselblad. The normal firmware has only liveview this there program.

The current final release is 3.5.9R and is not beta firmware.
Live View was implemented on November 11, 2014.

Firmware version 3.5.8R for H5D-50c and CFV-50c
This package contains firmware version 3.5.8R for the H5D-50c camera (including Multi-Shot) and CFV-50c.
Changes since version 3.4.3R:
• Live View on rear camera display
• Longer exposure times. Now up to 34 minutes (no black exposure required)
• Faster capture rate. Now up to 50 frames per minute (H5D-50c only)
• ISO and White Balance setting visible in Viewfinder (H5D-50c only)
• Spirit Level (H5D-50c only) and selectable display modes in tethered mode
• Korean language added
• Bug fixes
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: chiek on June 01, 2015, 10:15:58 pm: Quote from: mueller123 on May 31, 2015, 05:00:52 am

Could you zoom to 100% and review the sharpness at liveview?

please check above youtube link,
100% zoom view for focusing in live view situations.
and this video includes olympus 35mm shifting in live view, too.

i heard cfv-50c is not suitable for technical movements. but in my test, It's not bad,
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: JohnBrew on June 05, 2015, 01:32:02 pm: Chiek, just finished up my testing of the ALPA STC w/CFV-50c. As regards movements - horizontal stitch shifted 10mm each side worked out perfectly in PP, though there was loss of color saturation in the shifted images. I tried a vertical stitch and the image was unusable due to severe color banding. ALPA states the lens I was using (40 HR) should be good for stitching well past the shifts I used. So perhaps there is something to what you heard about the back not working well with tech cameras.
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: Jeffery Salter on June 05, 2015, 02:04:27 pm: Hi John,

Did you shoot an LCC and apply it?

regards,
Jeffery
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: JohnBrew on June 05, 2015, 02:08:09 pm: No, I did not. I was told I didn't need to with the 40.
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: Jeffery Salter on June 05, 2015, 02:25:11 pm: Hi John,

I sure one of the expert landscape photographers on the forum will jump in shortly. Perhaps Paul2660 can pitch in. It's my understanding that when you "Shift" the lens is when you most need to Shoot a LCC card/plate. You mentioned in your earlier post that you did a 10mm left and right shift, you would have needed to shoot a plate for every moment.

Jeffery
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: JohnBrew on June 05, 2015, 03:14:42 pm: Could be. Never shot a tech camera before. The pano came out fine, though.
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: tjv on June 05, 2015, 05:50:17 pm: Yes, you definately need to shoot an LCC for every image. On my demo of the 50c, I found it was excellent with movements up about 12mm rise / fall in landscape orientation, about 18mm in portrait orientation. You could push it further, but you need to be careful if you want to maintail colour fidelity. It's an excellent back for use on a tech camera.
Title: Re: Bought CFV-50c now. It's like a mirrorless camera.
Post by: hasselbladfan on June 11, 2015, 04:02:10 am: Hi Chiek,

Did you try the sensor with any of the old Hasselblad Zeiss lenses?

How was the result?