Hasselblad 3023028, 3023035 User Manual

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The Hasselblad H5D- 50c – the worlds rst CMOS medium format

camera – represents a huge leap forward in camera development

and will break new grounds for photographers that now will be

able to shoot with the ultimate in image quality regardless of

lighting condition. The extremely good high-ISO performance will

lift available light photography to new heights and signicantly

widen the usability of the Hasselblad H System cameras.

The camera is backed by a lens range of 12 extremely high perfor-

mance lenses – outperforming even the iconic Carl Zeiss lenses

for the classic V System. The added Wi-Fi capability provides an

even more exible camera where you can use iPhone/iPad to con-

trol the camera and view images conveniently even on location.

The H5D-50c has been developed with one goal: to produce the

best image quality possible. The result is stunning and paired

with the user-friendliness and wealth of functionality, it is maybe

one of the best cameras ever designed. Pick it up, feel the grip,

look through the viewnder and you will have a hard time putting

it down.

IMPORTANT FEATURES

• 50 Mpixel CMOS sensor with amazing image quality

• Excellent high ISO performance (ISO 100 - 6400)

• Longer shutter speeds up to 34 minutes. No extra black

exposure is required.

• Faster capture rate: 1.5 frames per second

• Live Video with high frame rate

• Live View on rear display

• Built-in Wi-Fi

• Much improved camera handling

• Improved weather sealings

• True Focus auto-focus system with Absolute Position Lock and

camera controls.

• A range of 12 high performing lenses with built-in central shutter.

The H5D -50c camera system has been especially designed to meet

demands for both exibility and ultimate image quality. This includes:

• the freedom to choose between eye-level and waist-level view-

nders both providing the best viewnder image on any camera.

• the choice of combining point-and–shoot and tilt/shift to solve

creative commercial challenges.

• the ability to combine working tethered and untethered to get

the most of your camera system both on location and in the

studio.

• the option of processing your raw images in Hasselblad’s

Phocus imaging toolbox, or working with your raw images

directly in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

• Phocus Mobile application (iPhone/iPad) for camera control and

image browsing tethered or on location.

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New CMOS sensor

The H5D-50c features a brand new CMOS sensor measuring 43.8 ×

32.9mm - almost twice the physical size of the largest 35mm DSLR

sensors. Basic ISO rating is from ISO 100 to ISO 6400. The high

sensitivity of the new sensor enables completely new application

areas for all professional medium format photographers. It is now

totally possible to capture super high quality images even at high

ISO settings making low light photography easy. This high sensitivity

and fast capture speed together with the high dynamic range of 14

stops makes this camera a true all-round camera that can be used

for almost any type of photography.

The H5D-50c is built around a high speed architecture that can cap-

ture full resolution images at the rate of 1.5 captures per second,

working either mobile or tethered to a computer.

The combination of these features makes the H5D-50c the natural

choice for the professional photographer wanting to work with the

ultimate in image quality whether working in the studio with con-

trolled lighting or on location.

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ash to be employed at shutter speeds up to 1/500s. And thanks

to the large format of the H System cameras, there is a consider-

ably shallower depth of eld range, making it much easier to utilise

selective focus to creative effect.

A choice of bright viewnders

One of the important traditional advantages of the medium format is

the extra-large and bright viewnder image, enabling extremely pre-

cise compositions and easy operation in dim lighting. The H5D-50c

comes with the HVD 90x viewnder designed for full performance

over the large sensor. Hasselblad has added an interchangeable

waist-level viewnder, the HVM, for the entire range of H system

cameras.

The bright and large viewnder image is ideal for creative composing

and the photographer is able to shoot in the fashion that suits them

most; maintaining eye contact with the model, or gaining impact by

shooting from a point lower than eye-level, for example.

Medium Format digital capture advantage

In digital photography, the advantages of large format cameras have

become even more obvious. The basic 6×4.5 cm design allows the

H5D-50c to use

able in digital photography. Consequently the sensor holds more

and larger pixels, which deliver the highest possible image quality in

terms of moiré-free color rendering without gradation break-ups in

even the nest lit surfaces.

one of

the largest image sensors currently avail-

An impressive lens line outperforming even the Carl
Zeiss icons

The highly renowned H system lens line includes 12 Auto-Focus

lenses, all with central lens shutters. Range is from 24mm to

300mm, 50-110mm zoom, 35-90mm zoom, a 1.7X Converter and

a dedicated wide angle Macro Converter. The built-in central shutter

allows ash to be used at all shutter speeds up to 1/800s. making

ash photography in daylight easy. It also improves image quality by

gernerating extremely low camera vibration.

The HTS 1.5 tilt/shift adapter delivers an easy to use, portable tilt/

shift solution for 6 H System lenses ranging from 24mm to 100mm.

The CF lens adapter allows use of the classic CF-lenses from the

Hasselblad V-camera, with full use of their central shutters, allowing

Built-in Wi-Fi

This allows for complete camera control from iPhone or iPad even

when the camera is not connected to a computer. Using the iOS app

Phocus Mobile, you can see previews, browse images and remote

control the camera from your iPhone or iPad.

Digital Lens Correction and Ultra-Focus for image
perfection

The H5D-50c camera allows information from the lens and exact

capture conditions to be fed to the camera processor for ultra-ne-

tuning of the auto-focus mechanism, taking into account the design

specications of the lens and the optical specications of the

sensor. In this way the full H System lens program is even further

enhanced, bringing a new level of sharpness and resolution.

Detailed information about capture condition is also stored in the

image le. This information is then used by Phocus to perform

“Digital Lens Correction” (DAC), which is an automatic correction

of the images based on a combination of the various parameters

concerning each specic lens for each specic shot, ensuring that

each image represents the best that your equipment can produce.

Digital Lens Correction is available regardless if Phocus or Adobe

Photoshop Lightroom is used.

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Improved handling

Many new features have been added to the H5D to make using the

camera even easier than before. This includes the option to use the

grip controls to control settings and operation of the sensor unit;

you can control zoom, browsing and menu selection without taking

your hand off the grip. The Prole handling feature allows you to

store complete camera settings in memory for easy access. Seven

different camera set-ups can be stored and settings from both the

body and sensor unit are stored in the prole and these proles can

easily be managed through Phocus software..

Live Video and Live View

The new CMOS sensor allows for much faster operations than CCD

sensors. This makes it possible to provide a much improved Live

Video in Phocus but also Live View on the rear display. Both modes

are perfect for composing and focus checking.

Phocus for professional level workow

Phocus provides an advanced software toolbox that has been espe-

cially designed to easily achieve optimum workow and absolute

image perfection from Hasselblad raw image les.

With the H5D-50c camera system Phocus provides:

• Uncompromising Image Quality

• Extended camera control with which to operate your H5D

camera. Features, such as live video for easier shot set-up and

workow, or the ability to control the lens drive for focusing or

camera settings when the camera is in a remote position or

when the digital capture unit is mounted on a view camera,

bring an entirely new level of exibility to the way you shoot.

• Moiré Removal Technology automatically applied directly on the

raw data, leaving image quality intact and eliminating the need

to carry out special masking selections or other manual proce-

dures, saving hours of tedious post-production work.

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• Flexible Workow. The Phocus GUI features easy-to-use options

that allow you to customize your set-up to suit a range of dif-

ferent workow situations, such as choice of import source,

browsing/comparison functions, le management, image export

in a number of le formats, pre-setting of options for upcoming

shoots, and much, much more.

• The extended metadata (GPS, etc), included in all Phocus

images provides for accurate and detailed cataloguing and

indexing, easy image management, and includes added GPS

data functionality in order to allow a range of functions. Phocus

links GPS data directly to Google Earth, for example, making

geographic reference a snap and image storage and retrieval

much easier.

• Perfect Viewing Quality. The Phocus Viewer delivers image view-

ing quality that matches every detail of what you will see later

in Photoshop. In addition, the Phocus Viewer allows you to cus-

tomize layout and composition to suit your current or desired

workow, providing a wide range of options including full view,

compare, browse, horizontal, or vertical view, and so on. You

can have multiple folders open simultaneously for side-by-side

viewing, comparison, and selection. The improved Live Video

function will now provide high frame rate in colour.

• L* colour space. The Reproduction tool will now let you select

a new Hasselblad L* working space as an alternative to Has-

selblad RGB.

• Built-in calibration of Eizo monitors. Use the built-in calibration

tool for self calibrating Eizo monitors-

• Built-in Capture Sequencer. Control your camera from Phocus

in new ways. Perform customisable bracketing sequences, self-

timer, interval timer etc. directly from Phocus.

• Phocus Mobile app to control the camera and view images on

your iPhone/iPad. Works tethered or over Wi-Fi.

Electronic spirit level

The H5D-50c has an integrated electronic spirit level to make it

easy to produce a straight horizon. The spirit level is shown both in

the viewnder and on the rear LCD. You therefore don’t need to take

your eye from the viewnder to check camera alignment.

Camera info on rear LCD

To improve visibility in certain situations, the rear LCD can now show

a copy of the camera grip LCD where you see all relevant shooting

information.

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Hasselblad’s unique natural colours

Hasselblad’s Natural Colour Solution (HNCS) enables you to pro-

duce outstanding and reliable out-of-the-box colors, with skin tones,

specic product colors and other difcult tones reproduced easily

and effectively. In order to incorporate our unique HNCS and DAC-

features we have developed a custom Hasselblad raw le format

called 3F RAW (3FR). This le format includes lossless image

compression, which reduces the le size by 33%. The 3FR les can

be opened directly in Apple or Adobe imaging environments.

Two modes of operation and storage

The H5D-50c offers a choice of storage devices: CF cards or a com-

puter hard drive. With these operating and storage options, you are

able to select a mode to suit the nature of the work in hand, whether

in the studio or on location.

Accessories including GPS Recording Flexibility

Hasselblad’s Global Image Locator (GIL) is an accessory for use

with any Hasselblad H-System digital capture product. With the GIL

device, all images captured outdoors are tagged with GPS coordi-

nates, time and altittude. This data provides the key to a number

of future applications involving image archiving and retrieval. One

example is the direct mapping of images in Phocus software to

the Google Earth application. Check out full list of accessories at:

http://www.hasselblad.com/products/lenses-and-accessories/

h-system-accessories.aspx

Options for working with tilt/shift

Two basic options are available for tilt/shift work with H5D-50c.

A simple-to-use, portable adapter solution and the classic view

camera solution.

The HTS 1.5 tilt/shift adapter for H5D-50c allows for portable tilt/

shift with 6 of the H System lenses ranging from 24mm to 100mm.

Effective focal lengths are 36 to 150mm.

Please refer to the separate datasheet on this product for details.

To further increase usability, the H5D-50c has been designed to

allow the digital capture unit to be detached and used on a view

camera by way of an adapter.

Please refer to the separate datasheet on Hasselblad View Camera

solutions for details.

Six H System lenses including Extension Tubes can
be used with the HTS 1.5:
HCD24, HCD28, HC35, HC50, HC80 and the HC100.

H5D with HTS 1.5 tilt/shift adapter
and a HCD 28mm lens.

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True Focus and Absolute Position Lock

True Focus helps solve one of the most lingering challenges that

faces serious photographers today: true, accurate focusing through-

out the image eld. Without multi-point auto-focus a typical auto-

focus camera can only correctly measure focus on a subject that

is in the center of the image. When a photographer wants to focus

on a subject outside the center area, they have to lock focus on the

subject and then re-compose the image. In short distances espe-

cially, this re-composing causes focus error, as the plane of focus

sharpness follows the camera’s movement, perpendicular to the

axis of the lens.

The traditional solution for most DSLR

the camera with a multi-point AF sensor. These sensors allow the

photographer to x an off-center focus point on an off-center sub-

ject, which is then focused correctly. Such multi-point AF solutions

are often tedious and inexible to work with. Due to the physics of

an SLR-camera, the off-center focus points that are offered are all

clustered relatively close to the center of the image. To set focus

outside of this center area, the photographer is still forced to focus

rst, and then shift the camera to reframe, with the resulting loss

of focus as a result.

To overcome this problem, Hasselblad has used modern yaw rate

sensor technology to measure angular velocity in an innovative

way. The result is the new Absolute Position Lock (APL) processor,

which forms the foundation of Hasselblad’s True Focus feature.

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The APL processor accurately logs camera movement during any

re-composing, then uses these exact measurements to calculate

the necessary focus adjustment, and issues the proper commands

to the lens’s focus motor so it can compensate. The APL processor

computes the advanced positional algorithms and carries out the

required focus corrections at such rapid speed that no shutter lag

occurs. The H5D’s rmware then further perfects the focus using

the precise data retrieval system found on all H System lenses.

The plane of focus changes when the camera is tilted for composition.

The middle image shows the result when not using True Focus. While this image looks relatively sharp,
the rightmost image where True Focus has been used, is razor sharp.

Photo: Marcel Pabst

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Technical specication

DIGITAL FEATURES

Sensor type CMOS, 50 Megapixels (8272 × 6200 pixels, 5.3 × 5.3 µm)

Sensor dimensions 43.8 × 32.9 mm

Image size RAW 3FR capture 65 MB on average. TIFF 8 bit: 154 MB

File format Lossless compressed Hasselblad 3FR

Shooting mode Single shot

Color denition 16 bit

ISO speed range ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 and 6400

Storage options CF card type U-DMA (e.g. SanDisk extreme IV) or tethered to Mac or PC

Color management Hasselblad Natural Colour Solution

Storage capacity 16 GB CF card holds 240 images on average

Capture rate 1.5 captures per second. 50 captures per minute

Display 3 inch TFT type, 24 bit color, 460,320 pixels

Histogram feedback Yes (on rear display and on camera grip display)

IR lter Mounted in front of sensor

Acoustic feedback Ye s

Software Phocus for Mac and Windows

Platform support Macintosh: OSX version 10.6. PC: XP/Vista/Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)/8

Host connection type FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b)

View camera compatibility Yes, Mechanical shutters controlled via ash sync. Electronic shutters can be controlled from Phocus

Operating temperature 0 - 45 ˚C / 32 - 113 ˚F

Wi-Fi 802.11 a, b, g, n

Dimensions Complete camera w. HC80 mm lens: 153 x 131 x 205 mm [W x H x D]

Weight 2290 g (Complete camera w. HC80 mm lens, Li-Ion battery and CF card)

CAMERA FEATURES

Camera type Large sensor medium format DSLR

Lenses Hasselblad H system lens line with integral central lens shutter

Shutter speed range 34 minutes to 1/800 second

Flash sync speed Flash can be used at all shutter speeds

Viewnder options •HVD 90x: 90° eye-level viewnder w. diopter adjustment (-5 to +3.5D). Image magnication 3.1 times.

Integral ll-ash (G.No. 12 @ ISO100). Hot shoe for SCA3002-system ashes from Metz™

•HV 90x: 90° eye-level viewnder w. diopter adjustment (-4 to +2.5D). Image magnication 2.7 times.
Integral ll-ash (G.No. 12 @ ISO100). Hot shoe for SCA3002-system ashes from Metz™

•HVM: Waist-level viewnder. Image magnication 3.2 times

Focusing Autofocus metering with passive central cross-type sensor. Ultra focus digital feedback.

Instant manual focus override. Metering range EV 1 to 19 at ISO 100

Flash control Automatic TTL centre weighted system. Uses built-in ash or ashes compatible with SCA3002 (Metz™).

Output can be adjusted from -3 to +3EV. For manual ashes a built-in metering system is available

Exposure metering Metering options: Spot, Centre Weighted and CentreSpot. Metering range Spot: EV2 to 21,

Centre Weighted: EV1 to 21, CentreSpot: EV1 to 21

Power supply Rechargeable Li-ion battery (7.2 VDC / 2900 mAh)

Film compatibility Yes

*Victor Hasselblad AB reserves the right to make changes without notice to the above specications

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Connectivity diagram

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Optional viewnders

HV 90x
viewnder

Accessories

GIL GPS
receiver

SCA3902
TTL Flash
Adapter

HVM waist-level
viewnder

H5D Camera

Roll lm and
Instant mag.

Sensor unit
(included)

Tilt/Shift

HTS 1.5.
For use with
HCD28, HC35,
HC50, HC80 and
HC100 (including
extension tubes)

Optional V system lenses

CF lens adapter
HVD 90x view­nder (included)

Lenses

All H System

lenses, including

extension tubes

and converter

Camera body

View cameras – Flash sync shutters

Flash sync

input cable

Any view camera with

Hasselblad H adapter

Flash sync

input cable

Host computer with

FireWire, running Phocus

Schneider

Shutter

Control ES

Rollei Lens-

Control S

View cameras – Electronic shutters

Any view camera with

Hasselblad H adapter

Expose cable

Host computer with

FireWire, running Phocus

Rollei Lens-

Control S

Schneider

electronic shutter

control

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H5D-50c Wi-Fi lens range

hc lens range

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HCD 4.8/24mm

HC 3.5/50-IImm

HC Macro 4/120-IImm

HCD 4/28mm

HC 2.8/80mm HC 2.2/100mm

HC 3.2/150mm

HC 3.5/35mm

HC 4/210mm

HC 4.5/300mm

Most V system C type lenses with

optional CF lens adapter

September 2014 - EN v2 Specication subject to change without notice.

HC 3.5–4.5/50–110mm HCD 4.0–5.6/35–90mm

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