Hi,
56x56 mm is certainly not very plausible, at least right now, but focusing can be helped a lot using magnified live view on a CMOS back. Hasselblad made a 44x33 mm CMOS back at an almost affordable price.
The closest thing to 56x56 mm is 54x41 mm backs. But, I don't think Phase One makes any of those for the Hasselblad V.
There are som decent solutions for focusing using the viewfinder:
- Split image view screens help with accurate focusing, if the subject has some nice clean and smooth edge.
- We can use a magnifier.
The image below shows my Zeiss Victory 3X monocular. That 9X magnification with the PM5 viewfinder.
The image below shows what the viewfinder could resolve. PM5 is red, and the PM5 combined with the Zeiss monocular is yellow. The blue box was a special Hartblei focusing hood with 4X magnification.
I also made a replacement ocular that was made for my vision, but that didn't work well with the Zeiss monocular.
Best regards
Erik
I'm with you, on that, 100%. I told that to Hasselblad already it was the same loud cry from a lot of people. The H actually was and is a very good camera but it took many years for me to get over the V. I still have my V cameras and I consider them one of the best designed cameras of all time. It's a great shame to have lost them.
6x6 digital isn't really possible now, it certainly wasn't possible all those years ago. I actually found the V to work exceptionally well with Phase One backs because you could mount the back rotated. It was great. By 60MP, though, it was getting hard to focus, the tolerances just aren't there and it needed an entire overhaul and redesign with new componentry and interface. It's a shame and I really wish that Hasselblad focussed their attention on the original platform and not the H.