Question About Hasselblad

[kostas nianiopoulos]

Maybe in the next months im gonna have Hasselblad from the film season . It's a camera a friend of mine has it but she never use it , and she wishes to give it to me to have the camera a good home ( that was her words ) .
From the little things i know they are great cameras but as is not a digital one is not that usefull to me . I was told that this cameras can take digital backs and from film you can make it digital one .
That looks strange to me and i dont know if this can happen , what do you think about this could happen to change the back ? ... any idea ?

Thank you .

[John Chardine]

Hi Kostas- Hasselblad and other companies make digital backs that will fit film Hasselblads and do not need to be tethered to a computer. The catch is that they are not cheap!

[Roger Clark]

Hi Kostas,

Except for rapidly moving subjects, one can get medium format image quality (and even large format images quality) with a DSLR and making mosaics. I do large format photography (8x10 and 4x5 view cameras) but rarely use them any more because digital mosaics work so well.

Roger

[Kerry Perkins]

Kostas, the Hasselblad is a great camera, but the digital backs run from $14,000 to $30,000 and you need some serious computing power to edit the images. That said, I would love to have the camera for doing transparencies.

[kostas nianiopoulos]

Thanks Guys :)

[Norm Dulak]

Hi Kostas,

Except for rapidly moving subjects, one can get medium format image quality (and even large format images quality) with a DSLR and making mosaics. I do large format photography (8x10 and 4x5 view cameras) but rarely use them any more because digital mosaics work so well.

Roger

Roger.

Would you please provide a link explaining how digital mosaics are made? That sounds interesting.

[Roger Clark]

Roger.

Would you please provide a link explaining how digital mosaics are made? That sounds interesting.

Hi Norm,

Here are some references:
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/large_mosaics/

I use ptgui: http://www.ptgui.com/

Some mosaics, first a landscape:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.large_format/web/needles.sunset.c10.26.2009.img_0147-164.g-1000.html

a cheetah:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.africa/web/cheetah.c01.19.2007.JZ3F8148-9f-800.html

A 15-frame sunrise with 300 mm telephoto + 1.4x TC hand held:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.africa/web/serengeti.sunrise.trees.and.birds.c02.24.2011.c45i 5745-63.d-crop2-1000.html

Roger

[Norm Dulak]

Hi Norm,

Here are some references:
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/large_mosaics/

I use ptgui: http://www.ptgui.com/

Some mosaics, first a landscape:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.large_format/web/needles.sunset.c10.26.2009.img_0147-164.g-1000.html

a cheetah:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.africa/web/cheetah.c01.19.2007.JZ3F8148-9f-800.html

A 15-frame sunrise with 300 mm telephoto + 1.4x TC hand held:
http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.africa/web/serengeti.sunrise.trees.and.birds.c02.24.2011.c45i 5745-63.d-crop2-1000.html

Roger

Thanks a million Roger.

I'll go through all of these links very carefully.

Norm

[Chris Korman]

There are some cheaper digital backs that Leaf & Mamiya have.

See here at B&H for instance:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/823017-REG/Mamiya_010_05901A_Leaf_Aptus_II_22_Digital.html

You can also search for used backs which I have seen go for under 5 thousand USD.

[kostas nianiopoulos]

There are some cheaper digital backs that Leaf & Mamiya have.

See here at B&H for instance:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/823017-REG/Mamiya_010_05901A_Leaf_Aptus_II_22_Digital.html

You can also search for used backs which I have seen go for under 5 thousand USD.

Thank u so much Chris , I'll check it up :)