**The Evolution of Modular Camera Systems**
I would be able to switch film types mid-roll so if I was shooting something I was in shot three he only got 12 per roll I could switch over from color film to black-and-white film and then come back without interrupting anything so that was a big use of these I think the other big deal is for photographers that use these for studio photography is you could have an assistant and you only get 12 shots per roll on 120 you could expand that with 220 but still it was limited and you could shoot for a while then hand your back off to your assistant they would give you another one and it doesn't disrupt the workflow you can continue to shoot while they go ahead and change the back out and deal with the film side of things so that's kind of some of the advantages of a modular system.
Now, we have modular systems today. Medium format Hasselblad even makes one, the H series, which is their most recent innovation, the H6, and there's also a 400 megapixel version of the H6, which is incredible. Phase One system is modular and the benefit to these is when a new back at a higher resolution comes out you don't have to replace the entire camera, they're on them, they're just ridiculously expensive so it keeps your cost down being able to do that. You could also like have a 50 megapixel back and you could rent 100 megapixel back maybe you don't need that all the time, it's just a specialized thing and it fits in with the rest of your systems.
So, there is a place today with this modular system even though it's not as popular as it was back in the film days but I think what's interesting is what Hasselblad have done with this modular system now. Some of you might remember this from 2016 but that was the year that Hasselblad introduced the original X1 D and at Photokina that year they did a lot of press around this which was known as the v1 D I believe, which was essentially a modular concept system. Now, they never announced that they were going into production with this it was just sort of a what-if concept and showing the direction that possible.
However, I thought this had kind of gone away but apparently, it's back. Obviously, it looks completely different but it's that same direction of thinking with a modular system first of all with the body with the 907 X this will be a mount that for all the X1 D lenses it doesn't have a mare in it because the x1 D system is mirrorless so it's like just a fraction of the depth of this. I mean, it's amazing how small the system gets. Plus, you will have the ability I think it's with any camera since 1957 - just take the digital back and I could use it with this camera so this opens up the range of lenses that I have access to.
Of course, you won't have autofocus it'll be manual focus but that adds a dimension that I think is really cool to you as a photographer. The other thing is this is so small so the new camera back which is the CBF and this is actually the second version they used to make a CV F it's not in production anymore and this is going to be a much updated version but that will be where the screen lives, it'll be articulating on the back and it that's the heart of the camera. It'll have the battery in the sensor and all the electronics and it'll have a touchscreen, from the early video that Hasselblad released as well as the production shots looks like it articulates.
I think the significant of this is this is going to give us a studio camera and I wouldn't expect this to be inexpensive but I also would be surprised if it was as expensive as the X1 D. Think you're looking at something less than that, and of course, I don't know I'm just speculating and they could surprise us who knows but this is really interesting because for photographers who want to do studio type photography or much like the x1d if you do landscapes or you do field work it allows you to carry a system that is a lot less weight. It's a lot less parts and it just makes everything easier, you don't have to have as mass of a tripod you can travel with something that's very compact.
We've got that with the x1 D, the x1 D to now and now we're gonna have a modular system to go with that. I am super excited about this. It's also compatible with film cameras so I want to know your thoughts, so drop me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then later
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right what is up everybody welcome back in this video I want to talk a little bit about one of the Hasselblad announcements from the other day the big hype is all around the X 1 D 2 which is an amazing camera I did a video on that I got a pre-production copy that I was allowed to shoot on and share with you guys I'll link that up in the show description if you haven't seen it yet they also announced a new zoom lens for the X CD system that will fit with the X 1 d2 and the original and then there was this kind of interesting announcement that was more of a development announcement but I'm really excited about this and they announced essentially a modular system for medium format and so this comes in two pieces you have the body quote-unquote which will be an X CD mount so will work with all the lenses that are designed for the x1d and it's really thin and I'll talk about that in a second and then you have a digital back which is going to use I believe the same sensor the 50 megapixel sensor that we have in the X 1 DX 1 D 2 now full disclosure I have no more information than what has been announced in fact I didn't even know they were announcing it until just before and so you guys are up on everything I'm up on if you go to house Allods website you can read up on it but I want to talk about why this is important why I think it's pretty exciting so why a modular system what is involved with that well this is a very special camera to me this is one that I've had for a long time that actually used to belong to my mentor who passed away and I bought this from their studio years and years ago and this is actually a 503 C X and there were many variants there's the 500 the 5 500 cm to 501 CM there were a whole bunch but it was basically the same design principle and this is a film camera but it comes in three sections you have interchangeable lenses so I can swap this out for different focal lengths you have the body in the middle which has a viewfinder that pops up and there is a mirror inside that body this is actually a single reflex camera and that's how you compose your shot and get into focus and then finally off the body you have the back and these are old film cameras so this is a film back and these are still in you Sasa blod doesn't make this system anymore but I've seen people who are enthusiasts that love film that's still like shooting on these when did the artist series Alexei Tedder renko who's one of my favorite photographers he still uses his old 501 cm and so there's still a use for these and the other thing that's that's kind of key about this is we have never had a full 6x6 back in other words all of the medium form censors are nowhere near this size it's kind of a crop equivalent if you're comparing like aps-c and full-frame so we have never seen a full-frame back but what's interesting about the modular approach is in the early days of digital when medium format was trying to figure out what its place was the earliest digital medium format cameras were actually just backs that were produced for existing film cameras one they were extremely expensive they weren't great resolution by today's standards but at the time they were pretty groundbreaking but it allowed you to be able to buy one of these expensive back so you didn't have to buy a whole new system the developers didn't have to develop a whole new system and you could use it with your existing what house of lycost the v-series the house of all wasn't the only camera company that made these fuji film had a modular system there were others but housed about certainly is the classic and that was what a modular system was for and what's really cool about this is I can remove the back and I can use different film in different backs as how I used to use it I put color film in one back and maybe black-and-white in another this is very Frankenstein here I just realized this is a black back and a chrome body but anyway I would be able to switch film types mid-roll so if I was shooting something I was in shot three he only got 12 per roll I could switch over from color film to black-and-white film and then come back without interrupting anything so that was a big use of these I think the other big deal is for photographers that use these for studio photography is you could have an assistant and you only get 12 shots per roll on 120 you could expand that with 220 but still it was limited and you could shoot for a while then hand your back off to your assistant they would give you another one and it doesn't disrupt the workflow you can continue to shoot while they go ahead and change the back out and deal with the film side of things so that's kind of some of the advantages of a modular system now we have modular systems today with medium format Hasselblad even makes one the X or sorry the H series which is they you know the most recent has been the h6 and then there's a 400 megapixel version of the h6 which is incredible phase one system is modular and the benefit to these is when a new back at a higher resolution comes out you don't have to replace the entire camera they're on they're just ridiculously expensive so it's it keeps your cost down being able to do that you could also like have a 50 megapixel back and you could rent 100 megapixel back maybe you don't need that all the time it's just a specialized thing and it fits in with the rest of your systems so there is a place today with that even though it's not as popular as it was back in the film days but I think what's interesting is what Hasselblad have done with this modular system now some of you might remember this from 2016 but that was the year that Hasselblad introduced the original x1 D and at Photokina that year they did a lot of press around this which was known as the v1 D I believe which was essentially a modular concept system now they never announced that they were going into production with this it was just sort of a what-if concept and showing the direction that possible I was thinking well in the meantime we've had the x1 D released we've seen updates to the h6 but it's been pretty quiet and I thought this had kind of gone away but apparently it's back it obviously looks completely different but it's that same direction of thinking with a modular system first of all with the body with the 907 X this will be a mount that for all the X 1d lenses it doesn't have a mare in it because the x1 D system is mirrorless so it's like just a fraction of the the depth of this I mean it's amazing how small the system gets plus you will have the ability I think it's with any camera since 1957 - just take the digital back and I could use it with this camera so this opens up the range of lenses that I have access to of course you won't have autofocus it'll be manual focus but that adds a dimension that I think is really cool to you as a photographer and the other thing is this is so small so the new camera back which is the CBF and this is actually the second version they used to make a CV F it's not in production anymore and this is going to be a much updated version but that will be where the screen lives it'll be articulating on the back and it that's the heart of the camera it'll have the battery in the sensor and all the electronics and it'll have a touchscreen that from the early video that Hausa blod is released as well as the production shots looks like it articulates I think the significant of this is this is going to give us a studio camera and I wouldn't expect this to be inexpensive but I also would be surprised if it was as expensive as the age line I think you're looking it's something less than that and of course I don't know I'm just speculating and they could surprise us who knows but this is really interesting because for photographers who want to do studio type photography or much like the x1d if you do landscapes or you do field work it allows you to carry a system that is a lot less weight it's a lot less parts and it just makes everything easier you don't have to have as mass of a tripod you can travel with something that's very compact and we've got that with the x1 D the x1 D to now and now we're gonna have a modular system to go with that I am super excited about this it's also compatible with film cameras so I want to know your thoughts so drop me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then laterall right what is up everybody welcome back in this video I want to talk a little bit about one of the Hasselblad announcements from the other day the big hype is all around the X 1 D 2 which is an amazing camera I did a video on that I got a pre-production copy that I was allowed to shoot on and share with you guys I'll link that up in the show description if you haven't seen it yet they also announced a new zoom lens for the X CD system that will fit with the X 1 d2 and the original and then there was this kind of interesting announcement that was more of a development announcement but I'm really excited about this and they announced essentially a modular system for medium format and so this comes in two pieces you have the body quote-unquote which will be an X CD mount so will work with all the lenses that are designed for the x1d and it's really thin and I'll talk about that in a second and then you have a digital back which is going to use I believe the same sensor the 50 megapixel sensor that we have in the X 1 DX 1 D 2 now full disclosure I have no more information than what has been announced in fact I didn't even know they were announcing it until just before and so you guys are up on everything I'm up on if you go to house Allods website you can read up on it but I want to talk about why this is important why I think it's pretty exciting so why a modular system what is involved with that well this is a very special camera to me this is one that I've had for a long time that actually used to belong to my mentor who passed away and I bought this from their studio years and years ago and this is actually a 503 C X and there were many variants there's the 500 the 5 500 cm to 501 CM there were a whole bunch but it was basically the same design principle and this is a film camera but it comes in three sections you have interchangeable lenses so I can swap this out for different focal lengths you have the body in the middle which has a viewfinder that pops up and there is a mirror inside that body this is actually a single reflex camera and that's how you compose your shot and get into focus and then finally off the body you have the back and these are old film cameras so this is a film back and these are still in you Sasa blod doesn't make this system anymore but I've seen people who are enthusiasts that love film that's still like shooting on these when did the artist series Alexei Tedder renko who's one of my favorite photographers he still uses his old 501 cm and so there's still a use for these and the other thing that's that's kind of key about this is we have never had a full 6x6 back in other words all of the medium form censors are nowhere near this size it's kind of a crop equivalent if you're comparing like aps-c and full-frame so we have never seen a full-frame back but what's interesting about the modular approach is in the early days of digital when medium format was trying to figure out what its place was the earliest digital medium format cameras were actually just backs that were produced for existing film cameras one they were extremely expensive they weren't great resolution by today's standards but at the time they were pretty groundbreaking but it allowed you to be able to buy one of these expensive back so you didn't have to buy a whole new system the developers didn't have to develop a whole new system and you could use it with your existing what house of lycost the v-series the house of all wasn't the only camera company that made these fuji film had a modular system there were others but housed about certainly is the classic and that was what a modular system was for and what's really cool about this is I can remove the back and I can use different film in different backs as how I used to use it I put color film in one back and maybe black-and-white in another this is very Frankenstein here I just realized this is a black back and a chrome body but anyway I would be able to switch film types mid-roll so if I was shooting something I was in shot three he only got 12 per roll I could switch over from color film to black-and-white film and then come back without interrupting anything so that was a big use of these I think the other big deal is for photographers that use these for studio photography is you could have an assistant and you only get 12 shots per roll on 120 you could expand that with 220 but still it was limited and you could shoot for a while then hand your back off to your assistant they would give you another one and it doesn't disrupt the workflow you can continue to shoot while they go ahead and change the back out and deal with the film side of things so that's kind of some of the advantages of a modular system now we have modular systems today with medium format Hasselblad even makes one the X or sorry the H series which is they you know the most recent has been the h6 and then there's a 400 megapixel version of the h6 which is incredible phase one system is modular and the benefit to these is when a new back at a higher resolution comes out you don't have to replace the entire camera they're on they're just ridiculously expensive so it's it keeps your cost down being able to do that you could also like have a 50 megapixel back and you could rent 100 megapixel back maybe you don't need that all the time it's just a specialized thing and it fits in with the rest of your systems so there is a place today with that even though it's not as popular as it was back in the film days but I think what's interesting is what Hasselblad have done with this modular system now some of you might remember this from 2016 but that was the year that Hasselblad introduced the original x1 D and at Photokina that year they did a lot of press around this which was known as the v1 D I believe which was essentially a modular concept system now they never announced that they were going into production with this it was just sort of a what-if concept and showing the direction that possible I was thinking well in the meantime we've had the x1 D released we've seen updates to the h6 but it's been pretty quiet and I thought this had kind of gone away but apparently it's back it obviously looks completely different but it's that same direction of thinking with a modular system first of all with the body with the 907 X this will be a mount that for all the X 1d lenses it doesn't have a mare in it because the x1 D system is mirrorless so it's like just a fraction of the the depth of this I mean it's amazing how small the system gets plus you will have the ability I think it's with any camera since 1957 - just take the digital back and I could use it with this camera so this opens up the range of lenses that I have access to of course you won't have autofocus it'll be manual focus but that adds a dimension that I think is really cool to you as a photographer and the other thing is this is so small so the new camera back which is the CBF and this is actually the second version they used to make a CV F it's not in production anymore and this is going to be a much updated version but that will be where the screen lives it'll be articulating on the back and it that's the heart of the camera it'll have the battery in the sensor and all the electronics and it'll have a touchscreen that from the early video that Hausa blod is released as well as the production shots looks like it articulates I think the significant of this is this is going to give us a studio camera and I wouldn't expect this to be inexpensive but I also would be surprised if it was as expensive as the age line I think you're looking it's something less than that and of course I don't know I'm just speculating and they could surprise us who knows but this is really interesting because for photographers who want to do studio type photography or much like the x1d if you do landscapes or you do field work it allows you to carry a system that is a lot less weight it's a lot less parts and it just makes everything easier you don't have to have as mass of a tripod you can travel with something that's very compact and we've got that with the x1 D the x1 D to now and now we're gonna have a modular system to go with that I am super excited about this it's also compatible with film cameras so I want to know your thoughts so drop me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then later\n"
