Hasselblad X2D Hands On Preview - - Medium Format Awesomeness

**Medium Format Mirrorless: Hasselblad X2d**

Working with medium format sensors is a unique experience, especially when compared to full frame sensors. The sensor size and resolution are significantly larger than those of full frame cameras, making them ideal for applications that require high detail and flexibility in terms of lens selection. The Hasselblad X2d features a 50 megapixel sensor, which was part of the roadmap from the start. It's clear that Hasselblad aimed to future-proof their camera with this higher resolution, allowing users to take advantage of the latest advancements in medium format technology.

The lenses for the Hasselblad X2d are exceptional, both optically and ergonomically. They have been designed to work seamlessly with the camera's body, providing outstanding image quality that is on par with some of the best medium format lenses available. The 21mm ultra-wide angle lens is a standout, as well as the 45mm and 45p lenses, which have become staples in my workflow. Other notable lenses include the 38mm F3.5 and the 55mm F2.8, both of which offer unique capabilities that set them apart from other lenses on the market.

When it comes to comparing alternatives to the Hasselblad X2d, there are only a few medium format mirrorless options available. The Fujifilm GFX 100 and GFX 100s are two notable examples, but they have their own strengths and weaknesses. The GFX 100s is the closest in terms of size and handling to the X2d, but it sacrifices some optical quality and ergonomics in order to achieve a more compact design. This makes it an excellent choice for users who prioritize portability over image quality, but may not be ideal for those who require the best possible performance.

One of the key factors that led me to choose the Hasselblad X2d over other options was its ergonomic design. The camera's Scandinavian-inspired body is incredibly comfortable to hold and use, making it an excellent choice for users who will be working with the camera for extended periods. This is particularly important when shooting medium format, as the cameras can be quite large and heavy.

Another crucial aspect of the Hasselblad X2d is its optical quality. The lenses are exceptional, offering outstanding image quality that is unmatched by many other medium format systems on the market. Whether you're working with prime lenses or zooms, the optical performance of the X2d is unparalleled. This makes it an excellent choice for users who require the highest level of image quality, particularly in situations where resolution and detail are critical.

**Initial Impressions**

I had the opportunity to preview the Hasselblad X2d before its official release, and I was blown away by its performance. The camera's ability to handle high-speed shooting and complex compositions is truly impressive, and I was able to achieve outstanding results with even the most challenging subjects. Whether you're working with motion, texture, or detail, the X2d delivers exceptional results that are on par with some of the best medium format cameras available.

One of the key challenges of shooting medium format is pushing the camera to its limits, particularly when it comes to motion and fast-paced subjects. The Hasselblad X2d proved itself to be more than capable of handling these situations, delivering outstanding results that were well beyond my expectations. This level of performance makes the X2d an excellent choice for users who require high-speed shooting capabilities, whether they're working in studio or on-location.

**Conclusion**

The Hasselblad X2d is an exceptional medium format mirrorless camera that delivers outstanding image quality and unparalleled performance. Its ergonomic design, optical quality, and capabilities make it an excellent choice for users who prioritize detail, resolution, and flexibility in their work. While there are other options available on the market, the X2d stands out as one of the best due to its exceptional performance and capabilities. I look forward to following up with a full review after having more time with this camera.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign is back and while it's not exactly Back in Black well it's a very dark gray this is the brand new Hasselblad X 2D and it represents a major evolution in the Hasselblad X series of medium format mirrorless cameras Hasselblad is also announced three new xcd Mountain lenses we've had a 38 millimeter a 55 millimeter and a 90 millimeter all with maximum apertures of f 2.5 these are all brand new designs with an added clutch feature which is really cool and hustlebladder calling these v-series lenses all are considerably faster and quieter than the previous generation the new x2d features The Familiar Scandinavian ergonomics that we saw in the x1d and the x1d2 bodies but they have now upgraded this camera with a new 100 megapixel backside illuminated sensor a new top display contrast and phase detection autofocus and Body Image stabilization we've got a flip screen now there's one terabyte of built-in SSD storage and some other major features that we're going to discuss in this video since 2016 Hasselblad has been using the same 50 megapixel sensor and all of their medium format mirrorless body so this includes the x1d the x1d2 as well as the 907x so now we have a brand new 100 megapixel sensor which is backside illuminated and this allows us to get up to 15 stops of dynamic range at 16-bit color depth so much like the 50c cameras you can rescue both Shadow and some highlight detail which is pretty amazing and with the Hasselblad natural color system it looks simply outstanding but now we have an additional stop of dynamic range and of course now 100 megapixels of resolution also we first in any Hasselblad medium format camera is in body image stabilization this camera features five axis stabilization developed specifically for this sensor and it delivers up to seven stops of handheld shooting in difficult conditions now I also want to add that speed is probably the thing that's impressed me the most about this camera and something I really didn't expect as many of you know know I've been a big fan of all of the Hasselblad mirrorless cameras I have the original x1d last year I bought the 907x I love those cameras they produce an amazing image quality however speed has not been their strong suit and speed has greatly been upgraded with the x2d so if we compare startup times with the original x1d and I realize this is six years between these two cameras you're gonna see that the x2d just starts up into live view and it's ready to go even if we compare this with the 907x there still is a major upgrade in just the startup speed of the camera autofocus speed has also gotten a major upgrade even when you're using the older lenses so what's different about the x2d is now we have incorporation of 294 phase detection zones and so the way that autofocus works is you have contrast autofocus which is more accurate and you have phase detection autofocus points which are faster face detection is now integrated into this camera and you do notice a big speed difference one of the most surprising features for me at least on the x2d is the fact that Hasselblad has one terabyte of built-in SSD storage in this camera this allows you to write to internal storage or you can use a CF Express type B card now hasselbladder stating pretty fast speeds for the SSD that they are using they are up over 2 000 megabits a second now the way these are rated is usually never the way they actually perform and there are other factors involved too but if you're using the correct USBC cable and you're plugging into a computer that has its own SSD hard drive in it you're going to see some pretty quick speeds and the way I have mine set up is I just write to the internal SSD and I use my CF Express type B card for backup and then I have the option of plugging either one at the end of the session into the computer to copy the files and while Hasselblad may not be the first camera to do this if you compare this to something like the Leica M11 which is very cool it has internal storage it only gives you 64 gigabytes of storage we have an entire terabyte on this camera so let's talk about the sensor for a second so we are getting an additional stop of dynamic range over the previous generation of hustle blood mirrorless so the 50c sensors they were great they were rated at 14 stops but the 100 megapixel that we have in the x2d is even better so a great deal of the image quality does come from this new sensor but I also want to note that the processor that they're using that's been paired with this has a lot to do with it as well the base ISO of the camera has now been changed from ISO 100 to 64. this might not seem like a big deal to some but if you're shooting wide open on the lens in bright light maybe outside it does come in very handy another thing I found very interesting about the x2d is the way it handles higher ISO settings so with the x1d which I've used for a number of years and I love that camera the image quality that you get out of there is really awesome but it does cap out around 1600 ISO 3200 can be usable in a pinch not really recommended and of course anything above that you're going to start introducing color noise as well as just a lot of noise in general so with the x2d a lot of that has changed and I can easily use up to 6400 without a whole contrast loss it really looks pretty good now if you zoom in 100 you can see noise at 6400 but chances are unless you're actually printing this at one to one resolution you're not going to see these it's kind of an interesting thing when you down scale you're actually rescuing noise so I would say easily I'm comfortable using this up to 6400 and I can push it a little higher if I really want to it's all situational but the camera handles high isos very nicely again the biggest difference for me is that when I'm pushing the x2d I'm not getting any of that color noise that I got with the x1d when it came out now if you're curious about low light performance I'm going to report to you that it is excellent but another advantage that you have to consider here is the fact that we now have in-body image stabilization so as I mentioned this is a five axis and Hasselblad is stating that's going to give you a seven stop Advantage now what that means in the real world depends on how you're shooting my hands are fairly steady and I was able to shoot at 1 6 of a second pretty consistently which is very impressed of considering the resolution of this camera your mileage could vary a little bit depending on how steady you are but it is outstanding of course this also works with non-native lenses as well and I've gotten really excellent results with my 1961 Nikon 58 millimeter F 1.2 knocked and several of my Leica lenses that actually will cover the size of the sensor I also want to note in here that I did not use a tripod for any of the sample shots in this video everything was handheld and I should mention that some of these shots that are in fairly low light I was able to use an ISO setting of 64. that's what really good in-body image stabilization is going to do for you so a note here about image quality and while 100 megapixels is unbelievably cool especially when you're zooming in and it's very impressive I think the thing that actually impressed me the most about this camera is the weight handles dynamic range and in particular the way it renders color the x2d renders color in a 16-bit color space you can actually select between 14 and 16 bit in the quality setting in the menus and so if you go under fifth depth 14-bit is going to increase your shooting speed while 16-bit is going to improve your color range so for the photos of these dancers I used my own Fujifilm presets these are all my Fujifilm Pro via simulation that you can get in my preset pack called fujified I will put a link in the show description if you're interested in learning more on that anyway these have more of the contrast of film so the dynamic range is reduced in these they're very contrasty what I love about this sensor is it allows me to get the exposure correct with anything basically because I have so much latitude to work with this allows me to rescue highlight detail as well as Shadow detail it's a really incredible camera of course if you're just rendering these straight out of the camera with the Hasselblad natural color system you're going to get really incredible results as well so let's talk about body and handling with the x2d so if we compare this side by side with the original x1d which was the same body as the x1d2 you can see this body is a little bit thicker and there has been a little bit of redesign up near the evf we have a much upgraded evf in the x2d but I want to note here is that the designers at Hasselblad did a wonderful job of keeping that same aesthetic as the x1d and the reason that I say that is this is one of my favorite body styles of any camera it's very comfortable to use it fits well in your hand it's well balanced the weight is excellent the x2d is a little bit heavier than the x1d but if you're using the new lenses they are indeed lighter so it ends up being about the same so the first major change that you might notice on this camera is the inclusion of a top display so this is replace the mode selection dial which was a physical dial that has been moved over to the side it's now a button when you select what mode you want to be in so the top display shows you all of your shooting info this is really useful if you've got this on a tripod let's say you're in the studio or you're shooting a landscape and you just want to At a Glance see what the settings are it also does a couple other things when I insert a battery into the camera it's going to immediately tell me how much power is left on the battery I can also get to this if the battery is already in the camera and the camera's off by just doing one short push on the power button and it also indicates status function so the other day I realized that I needed to upgrade the firmware on one of my lenses and when you're doing that it gives you an arrow indicating that it is performing a firmware upgrade all in all I think this was a really smart addition to the x2d another Edition that I really love is the Press function of the rear dial so this is custom mappable I keep mine on Zoom for critical Focus so if I press in on the dial it will zoom in then I press again to zoom back out it can also be used as a selector if you're navigating in the menus without using touch so for instance if you're using the evf or something like that now the hot shoe on the top is Nikon compatible as it was with the x1d and the x1d2 so with the Nikon flash you can get TTL flash metering at any shutter speeds that's because we're using Leaf shutters that live in the lenses as Leaf shutters will let you sync up to any Speed most of them cap out at about one two thousandth of a second which is pretty fast now the only connection port on this camera is the USBC Port so this allows for power delivery and fast data transfers I mentioned earlier now there is no audio audio jack on the x2d and some of you may recall on the x1d firmware came out that enabled you to use that as a remote trigger release in fact Hasselblad even sold an accessory separately that you could buy for the camera this will still work with the 907x but this no longer works with the x2d so if you want to remote trigger the camera you're going to have to use the focus mobile app now I want to say this about Focus mobile is that with a lot of camera companies and I review a lot of cameras most of the applications that run on Android or iPhone are really not very good focus is not one of those It's actually an excellent remote triggering app it'll connect via Wi-Fi it'll give you a live view it allows you to shoot remote it's actually really good so if we move back to the viewfinder in rear screen this is where things get pretty impressive so we have a 0.5 inch 5.6 million dot OLED evf with a refresh rate of 60 frames a second and a magnification of 1.0 x this is one of the best evfs I've used on any system now there are other cameras with high resolution EVS that are very good so the Panasonic s lineup if we look at the Leica SL2 and sl2s even the gfx 100 the reason I love this one is it has a 1.0 magnification so you can really see everything in the image it is massive and it is awesome and the refresh rate helps considerably also now the rear screen is a 3.6 inch 2.36 megapixel touch display that is now tiltable for low tripod or waist level shooting there it's actually two positions that it will tilt to now the menu interface has been redesigned a little bit from the x1de 907x cameras mostly because they've simplified things so it has the same intuitive icon based interface this is one of my favorites on any camera system and they just simplified it a little bit so if you're familiar with the old one you're going to work your way around the new system just fine so let's talk for a second about autofocus on the x2d now autofocus in general is usually the Achilles heel with any medium format system there are a number of reasons for that one you have a bigger sensor which means you're going to have much bigger lenses to have the coverage to cover the sensor which means you've got more parts and they're bigger Parts in the lens and there's just more to physically move that mixed with the fact that before we only had contrast based autofocus now we have phase detection which should speed things up with the new lenses in particular Hasselblad has done an excellent job of making this a lot faster in a much more enjoyable experience so on the x1d and the x1d2 especially with the original lenses that were designed for this system autofocus was just it was accurate it was just not fast and it was a lot of sounds involved with everything hustle blood have tightened this up considerably even when you're using the older lenses with this camera it's just much faster a lot of that probably has to do with the inclusion of phase detect autofocus points but these new lenses are really incredible they're almost silent in fact I can use just regular mechanical shutter and I've found that if I'm in any situation with ambient noise this is just about silent of course with all of the Hasselblad lenses you do have manual focus override so even if you're in autofocus as long as the autofocus isn't engaged you can just turn the collar to fine tune or whatever it is that you want to do I actually set mine up for back button autofocus which is actually on all the time you just turn it into manual focus and then just use the afd button on the back of the camera this works really well for me because I'm kind of a manual focused kind of guy but there are times where I just need to do something quickly and so I go back and forth between the two but I think the autofocus is a major Improvement on this system now let's talk about video capabilities on the x2d which I'm very excited about there aren't any I don't think that any medium format camera really should have 1080 or 4K video with a sensor this size it's just too big there's too much down sampling pixel binning whatever they got to do to get the file to the right size and I just never felt that on any mirrorless medium format camera the video has been any good so that is now off of the x2d this is the Stills only camera thank goodness the x1d uses the same same battery from the x1d2 and the 907x the same charger Etc so if you upgraded this camera your batteries and accessories will all still work the battery is separated on this camera for about 420 shots the camera does feature USBC power delivery so if for some reason you'd need more robust power you can use external power from a power brick or something it also features fast charging what's kind of funny is the other day when I plugged this in I put it behind my computer I brought all the photos in I was so excited to start editing I forgot to turn the camera off and I thought oh great the batteries probably drained well it was 100 charged when I remembered it like you know 15 minutes later and actually it was like less than 50 so it is pretty quick so let's talk for a second about the new lenses so the new lenses there is a 38 millimeter a 55 millimeter and 90 millimeter they are all F 2.5 the 90 millimeter was not ready at the time that I'm filming this but I am very curious about this lens I love the 80 millimeter and actually like the older 90 millimeter as well but this one is probably going to be even better if it's anything like these other two lenses that they did send over I'll review that at a later time but I can share with you my experience with the 55 millimeter and 38 millimeter both are extremely light they are much quieter as I mentioned earlier than the previous generation of lenses hustlebladder calling these v-series lenses and you can tell just by first glance that there's a considerable aesthetic departure from the first generation of Hasselblad lenses there's a lot more going on here they don't have the the minimal Stark aesthetic as much we do have a focus ring on here as well as a custom control ring you can map this to a number of options so if you want to control aperture from here you can map it to do that I have mine set up for exposure compensation this is a really nice upgrade from the previous generation these also feature kind of a clutch system here so if I want to go into immediate manual focus I just pop up the clutch and it also gives me my depth of field scale so if you're doing something technical you can get your full depth of field scale here now one of the things that I want to note about really all of the hospital lenses they are all topped here in terms of image quality you know you've got to consider we're working with medium format so the sensor is going to be bigger than full frame and we are also dealing with very high resolution so they started out with a 50 megapixel sensor and I'm sure it was part of the roadmap all along to move up to 100 and if you're going to be future proof you got to realize that one day they're probably going to be a higher resolution than this so all of the lenses that Hasselblad have done from an Optics standpoint have been just the best in terms of resolution they also feature nice bokeh they're really good lenses as they ought to be so in terms of comparable alternatives to the x2d well we're talking about medium format mirrorless so there really aren't a whole lot of them if you went with something like the x1d2 which is a camera that I like a lot it gives you outstanding image quality I think that there's enough feature upgrades on the x2d that really make this the camera to go with moving forward of course we could also compare this with the 907x x1d2 and 907x are both 50 megapixel cameras if that is acceptable for you in terms of resolution they're both great cameras to go with the 907x is very different in terms of ergonomics and handling it's one of the most unique cameras that I've ever used and I absolutely love it but it's just a very different Beast than the x2d so the only other two medium format mirrorless Alternatives that you're going to find are the Fujifilm gfx 100 and the gfx 100s now the 100s and the 100 are both great cameras the 100s is probably the closest in terms of size and handling I think this one has much better ergonomics and it doesn't have as nice of viewfinder and there's a lot of sacrifices that you would make with the 100s which means the closest to Apples to Apple's comparison with the x2d would be the gfx 100. now to fujifilm's credit they did an excellent job with that camera I've had experience now with both of these cameras and both of these systems there are a couple reasons though why for me Hasselblad was the route to go came down to two simple things first of all is ergonomics I love the Scandinavian design of these bodies I think they're very comfortable to use very easy to work with I'm not a fan of massive cameras now if you like big cameras will the gfx 100 is that it is a big camera so ergonomics was the first decision for me the second one came down to the optical quality of the lenses now while I can say that Fujifilm definitely have more options with their lenses particularly when you get into zooms and things like that I just think the optical quality on what we've got with Hasselblad is just so much better every lens that I have used with Hasselblad has been outstanding some of my favorites the 21 millimeter if you need an ultra wide angle lens I use the 45 and the 45p all the time in fact since I've gotten the 45p it just kind of lives on the camera I love the new lenses the 38 is excellent the 55 is a new favorite another older one that I like a lot is that 80 millimeter F 1.9 you saw that in a lot of the test shots another one that I really love is the 135 millimeter F28 it gives you a really outstanding portrait focal length and it has the option to extend it as well if you need more range but for me Optical performance is kind of top of the list especially when you're talking about resolutions of 100 megapixels so my initial Impressions with the x2d I absolutely love this camera I think it is outstanding and I want to note that I pushed this camera pretty hard right up to the limits of what it really can do especially with the dancer shots that I did earlier when you're dealing with a lot of motion and a lot of things that can happen really quickly I wouldn't necessarily grab a medium format camera with a prime lens to go with but I wanted to push the camera right up to the limit of what it could do just to see what I could get and I was actually really impressed with the results so I will follow up with a full review after I've had a little bit more time with this camera but I want to thank Hasselblad for allowing me to preview this a little bit early and share it with you guys if you have any questions drop them in the comments or anything you'd like to see in the full review until the next video I'll catch you guys then laterforeign is back and while it's not exactly Back in Black well it's a very dark gray this is the brand new Hasselblad X 2D and it represents a major evolution in the Hasselblad X series of medium format mirrorless cameras Hasselblad is also announced three new xcd Mountain lenses we've had a 38 millimeter a 55 millimeter and a 90 millimeter all with maximum apertures of f 2.5 these are all brand new designs with an added clutch feature which is really cool and hustlebladder calling these v-series lenses all are considerably faster and quieter than the previous generation the new x2d features The Familiar Scandinavian ergonomics that we saw in the x1d and the x1d2 bodies but they have now upgraded this camera with a new 100 megapixel backside illuminated sensor a new top display contrast and phase detection autofocus and Body Image stabilization we've got a flip screen now there's one terabyte of built-in SSD storage and some other major features that we're going to discuss in this video since 2016 Hasselblad has been using the same 50 megapixel sensor and all of their medium format mirrorless body so this includes the x1d the x1d2 as well as the 907x so now we have a brand new 100 megapixel sensor which is backside illuminated and this allows us to get up to 15 stops of dynamic range at 16-bit color depth so much like the 50c cameras you can rescue both Shadow and some highlight detail which is pretty amazing and with the Hasselblad natural color system it looks simply outstanding but now we have an additional stop of dynamic range and of course now 100 megapixels of resolution also we first in any Hasselblad medium format camera is in body image stabilization this camera features five axis stabilization developed specifically for this sensor and it delivers up to seven stops of handheld shooting in difficult conditions now I also want to add that speed is probably the thing that's impressed me the most about this camera and something I really didn't expect as many of you know know I've been a big fan of all of the Hasselblad mirrorless cameras I have the original x1d last year I bought the 907x I love those cameras they produce an amazing image quality however speed has not been their strong suit and speed has greatly been upgraded with the x2d so if we compare startup times with the original x1d and I realize this is six years between these two cameras you're gonna see that the x2d just starts up into live view and it's ready to go even if we compare this with the 907x there still is a major upgrade in just the startup speed of the camera autofocus speed has also gotten a major upgrade even when you're using the older lenses so what's different about the x2d is now we have incorporation of 294 phase detection zones and so the way that autofocus works is you have contrast autofocus which is more accurate and you have phase detection autofocus points which are faster face detection is now integrated into this camera and you do notice a big speed difference one of the most surprising features for me at least on the x2d is the fact that Hasselblad has one terabyte of built-in SSD storage in this camera this allows you to write to internal storage or you can use a CF Express type B card now hasselbladder stating pretty fast speeds for the SSD that they are using they are up over 2 000 megabits a second now the way these are rated is usually never the way they actually perform and there are other factors involved too but if you're using the correct USBC cable and you're plugging into a computer that has its own SSD hard drive in it you're going to see some pretty quick speeds and the way I have mine set up is I just write to the internal SSD and I use my CF Express type B card for backup and then I have the option of plugging either one at the end of the session into the computer to copy the files and while Hasselblad may not be the first camera to do this if you compare this to something like the Leica M11 which is very cool it has internal storage it only gives you 64 gigabytes of storage we have an entire terabyte on this camera so let's talk about the sensor for a second so we are getting an additional stop of dynamic range over the previous generation of hustle blood mirrorless so the 50c sensors they were great they were rated at 14 stops but the 100 megapixel that we have in the x2d is even better so a great deal of the image quality does come from this new sensor but I also want to note that the processor that they're using that's been paired with this has a lot to do with it as well the base ISO of the camera has now been changed from ISO 100 to 64. this might not seem like a big deal to some but if you're shooting wide open on the lens in bright light maybe outside it does come in very handy another thing I found very interesting about the x2d is the way it handles higher ISO settings so with the x1d which I've used for a number of years and I love that camera the image quality that you get out of there is really awesome but it does cap out around 1600 ISO 3200 can be usable in a pinch not really recommended and of course anything above that you're going to start introducing color noise as well as just a lot of noise in general so with the x2d a lot of that has changed and I can easily use up to 6400 without a whole contrast loss it really looks pretty good now if you zoom in 100 you can see noise at 6400 but chances are unless you're actually printing this at one to one resolution you're not going to see these it's kind of an interesting thing when you down scale you're actually rescuing noise so I would say easily I'm comfortable using this up to 6400 and I can push it a little higher if I really want to it's all situational but the camera handles high isos very nicely again the biggest difference for me is that when I'm pushing the x2d I'm not getting any of that color noise that I got with the x1d when it came out now if you're curious about low light performance I'm going to report to you that it is excellent but another advantage that you have to consider here is the fact that we now have in-body image stabilization so as I mentioned this is a five axis and Hasselblad is stating that's going to give you a seven stop Advantage now what that means in the real world depends on how you're shooting my hands are fairly steady and I was able to shoot at 1 6 of a second pretty consistently which is very impressed of considering the resolution of this camera your mileage could vary a little bit depending on how steady you are but it is outstanding of course this also works with non-native lenses as well and I've gotten really excellent results with my 1961 Nikon 58 millimeter F 1.2 knocked and several of my Leica lenses that actually will cover the size of the sensor I also want to note in here that I did not use a tripod for any of the sample shots in this video everything was handheld and I should mention that some of these shots that are in fairly low light I was able to use an ISO setting of 64. that's what really good in-body image stabilization is going to do for you so a note here about image quality and while 100 megapixels is unbelievably cool especially when you're zooming in and it's very impressive I think the thing that actually impressed me the most about this camera is the weight handles dynamic range and in particular the way it renders color the x2d renders color in a 16-bit color space you can actually select between 14 and 16 bit in the quality setting in the menus and so if you go under fifth depth 14-bit is going to increase your shooting speed while 16-bit is going to improve your color range so for the photos of these dancers I used my own Fujifilm presets these are all my Fujifilm Pro via simulation that you can get in my preset pack called fujified I will put a link in the show description if you're interested in learning more on that anyway these have more of the contrast of film so the dynamic range is reduced in these they're very contrasty what I love about this sensor is it allows me to get the exposure correct with anything basically because I have so much latitude to work with this allows me to rescue highlight detail as well as Shadow detail it's a really incredible camera of course if you're just rendering these straight out of the camera with the Hasselblad natural color system you're going to get really incredible results as well so let's talk about body and handling with the x2d so if we compare this side by side with the original x1d which was the same body as the x1d2 you can see this body is a little bit thicker and there has been a little bit of redesign up near the evf we have a much upgraded evf in the x2d but I want to note here is that the designers at Hasselblad did a wonderful job of keeping that same aesthetic as the x1d and the reason that I say that is this is one of my favorite body styles of any camera it's very comfortable to use it fits well in your hand it's well balanced the weight is excellent the x2d is a little bit heavier than the x1d but if you're using the new lenses they are indeed lighter so it ends up being about the same so the first major change that you might notice on this camera is the inclusion of a top display so this is replace the mode selection dial which was a physical dial that has been moved over to the side it's now a button when you select what mode you want to be in so the top display shows you all of your shooting info this is really useful if you've got this on a tripod let's say you're in the studio or you're shooting a landscape and you just want to At a Glance see what the settings are it also does a couple other things when I insert a battery into the camera it's going to immediately tell me how much power is left on the battery I can also get to this if the battery is already in the camera and the camera's off by just doing one short push on the power button and it also indicates status function so the other day I realized that I needed to upgrade the firmware on one of my lenses and when you're doing that it gives you an arrow indicating that it is performing a firmware upgrade all in all I think this was a really smart addition to the x2d another Edition that I really love is the Press function of the rear dial so this is custom mappable I keep mine on Zoom for critical Focus so if I press in on the dial it will zoom in then I press again to zoom back out it can also be used as a selector if you're navigating in the menus without using touch so for instance if you're using the evf or something like that now the hot shoe on the top is Nikon compatible as it was with the x1d and the x1d2 so with the Nikon flash you can get TTL flash metering at any shutter speeds that's because we're using Leaf shutters that live in the lenses as Leaf shutters will let you sync up to any Speed most of them cap out at about one two thousandth of a second which is pretty fast now the only connection port on this camera is the USBC Port so this allows for power delivery and fast data transfers I mentioned earlier now there is no audio audio jack on the x2d and some of you may recall on the x1d firmware came out that enabled you to use that as a remote trigger release in fact Hasselblad even sold an accessory separately that you could buy for the camera this will still work with the 907x but this no longer works with the x2d so if you want to remote trigger the camera you're going to have to use the focus mobile app now I want to say this about Focus mobile is that with a lot of camera companies and I review a lot of cameras most of the applications that run on Android or iPhone are really not very good focus is not one of those It's actually an excellent remote triggering app it'll connect via Wi-Fi it'll give you a live view it allows you to shoot remote it's actually really good so if we move back to the viewfinder in rear screen this is where things get pretty impressive so we have a 0.5 inch 5.6 million dot OLED evf with a refresh rate of 60 frames a second and a magnification of 1.0 x this is one of the best evfs I've used on any system now there are other cameras with high resolution EVS that are very good so the Panasonic s lineup if we look at the Leica SL2 and sl2s even the gfx 100 the reason I love this one is it has a 1.0 magnification so you can really see everything in the image it is massive and it is awesome and the refresh rate helps considerably also now the rear screen is a 3.6 inch 2.36 megapixel touch display that is now tiltable for low tripod or waist level shooting there it's actually two positions that it will tilt to now the menu interface has been redesigned a little bit from the x1de 907x cameras mostly because they've simplified things so it has the same intuitive icon based interface this is one of my favorites on any camera system and they just simplified it a little bit so if you're familiar with the old one you're going to work your way around the new system just fine so let's talk for a second about autofocus on the x2d now autofocus in general is usually the Achilles heel with any medium format system there are a number of reasons for that one you have a bigger sensor which means you're going to have much bigger lenses to have the coverage to cover the sensor which means you've got more parts and they're bigger Parts in the lens and there's just more to physically move that mixed with the fact that before we only had contrast based autofocus now we have phase detection which should speed things up with the new lenses in particular Hasselblad has done an excellent job of making this a lot faster in a much more enjoyable experience so on the x1d and the x1d2 especially with the original lenses that were designed for this system autofocus was just it was accurate it was just not fast and it was a lot of sounds involved with everything hustle blood have tightened this up considerably even when you're using the older lenses with this camera it's just much faster a lot of that probably has to do with the inclusion of phase detect autofocus points but these new lenses are really incredible they're almost silent in fact I can use just regular mechanical shutter and I've found that if I'm in any situation with ambient noise this is just about silent of course with all of the Hasselblad lenses you do have manual focus override so even if you're in autofocus as long as the autofocus isn't engaged you can just turn the collar to fine tune or whatever it is that you want to do I actually set mine up for back button autofocus which is actually on all the time you just turn it into manual focus and then just use the afd button on the back of the camera this works really well for me because I'm kind of a manual focused kind of guy but there are times where I just need to do something quickly and so I go back and forth between the two but I think the autofocus is a major Improvement on this system now let's talk about video capabilities on the x2d which I'm very excited about there aren't any I don't think that any medium format camera really should have 1080 or 4K video with a sensor this size it's just too big there's too much down sampling pixel binning whatever they got to do to get the file to the right size and I just never felt that on any mirrorless medium format camera the video has been any good so that is now off of the x2d this is the Stills only camera thank goodness the x1d uses the same same battery from the x1d2 and the 907x the same charger Etc so if you upgraded this camera your batteries and accessories will all still work the battery is separated on this camera for about 420 shots the camera does feature USBC power delivery so if for some reason you'd need more robust power you can use external power from a power brick or something it also features fast charging what's kind of funny is the other day when I plugged this in I put it behind my computer I brought all the photos in I was so excited to start editing I forgot to turn the camera off and I thought oh great the batteries probably drained well it was 100 charged when I remembered it like you know 15 minutes later and actually it was like less than 50 so it is pretty quick so let's talk for a second about the new lenses so the new lenses there is a 38 millimeter a 55 millimeter and 90 millimeter they are all F 2.5 the 90 millimeter was not ready at the time that I'm filming this but I am very curious about this lens I love the 80 millimeter and actually like the older 90 millimeter as well but this one is probably going to be even better if it's anything like these other two lenses that they did send over I'll review that at a later time but I can share with you my experience with the 55 millimeter and 38 millimeter both are extremely light they are much quieter as I mentioned earlier than the previous generation of lenses hustlebladder calling these v-series lenses and you can tell just by first glance that there's a considerable aesthetic departure from the first generation of Hasselblad lenses there's a lot more going on here they don't have the the minimal Stark aesthetic as much we do have a focus ring on here as well as a custom control ring you can map this to a number of options so if you want to control aperture from here you can map it to do that I have mine set up for exposure compensation this is a really nice upgrade from the previous generation these also feature kind of a clutch system here so if I want to go into immediate manual focus I just pop up the clutch and it also gives me my depth of field scale so if you're doing something technical you can get your full depth of field scale here now one of the things that I want to note about really all of the hospital lenses they are all topped here in terms of image quality you know you've got to consider we're working with medium format so the sensor is going to be bigger than full frame and we are also dealing with very high resolution so they started out with a 50 megapixel sensor and I'm sure it was part of the roadmap all along to move up to 100 and if you're going to be future proof you got to realize that one day they're probably going to be a higher resolution than this so all of the lenses that Hasselblad have done from an Optics standpoint have been just the best in terms of resolution they also feature nice bokeh they're really good lenses as they ought to be so in terms of comparable alternatives to the x2d well we're talking about medium format mirrorless so there really aren't a whole lot of them if you went with something like the x1d2 which is a camera that I like a lot it gives you outstanding image quality I think that there's enough feature upgrades on the x2d that really make this the camera to go with moving forward of course we could also compare this with the 907x x1d2 and 907x are both 50 megapixel cameras if that is acceptable for you in terms of resolution they're both great cameras to go with the 907x is very different in terms of ergonomics and handling it's one of the most unique cameras that I've ever used and I absolutely love it but it's just a very different Beast than the x2d so the only other two medium format mirrorless Alternatives that you're going to find are the Fujifilm gfx 100 and the gfx 100s now the 100s and the 100 are both great cameras the 100s is probably the closest in terms of size and handling I think this one has much better ergonomics and it doesn't have as nice of viewfinder and there's a lot of sacrifices that you would make with the 100s which means the closest to Apples to Apple's comparison with the x2d would be the gfx 100. now to fujifilm's credit they did an excellent job with that camera I've had experience now with both of these cameras and both of these systems there are a couple reasons though why for me Hasselblad was the route to go came down to two simple things first of all is ergonomics I love the Scandinavian design of these bodies I think they're very comfortable to use very easy to work with I'm not a fan of massive cameras now if you like big cameras will the gfx 100 is that it is a big camera so ergonomics was the first decision for me the second one came down to the optical quality of the lenses now while I can say that Fujifilm definitely have more options with their lenses particularly when you get into zooms and things like that I just think the optical quality on what we've got with Hasselblad is just so much better every lens that I have used with Hasselblad has been outstanding some of my favorites the 21 millimeter if you need an ultra wide angle lens I use the 45 and the 45p all the time in fact since I've gotten the 45p it just kind of lives on the camera I love the new lenses the 38 is excellent the 55 is a new favorite another older one that I like a lot is that 80 millimeter F 1.9 you saw that in a lot of the test shots another one that I really love is the 135 millimeter F28 it gives you a really outstanding portrait focal length and it has the option to extend it as well if you need more range but for me Optical performance is kind of top of the list especially when you're talking about resolutions of 100 megapixels so my initial Impressions with the x2d I absolutely love this camera I think it is outstanding and I want to note that I pushed this camera pretty hard right up to the limits of what it really can do especially with the dancer shots that I did earlier when you're dealing with a lot of motion and a lot of things that can happen really quickly I wouldn't necessarily grab a medium format camera with a prime lens to go with but I wanted to push the camera right up to the limit of what it could do just to see what I could get and I was actually really impressed with the results so I will follow up with a full review after I've had a little bit more time with this camera but I want to thank Hasselblad for allowing me to preview this a little bit early and share it with you guys if you have any questions drop them in the comments or anything you'd like to see in the full review until the next video I'll catch you guys then laterforeign is back and while it's not exactly Back in Black well it's a very dark gray this is the brand new Hasselblad X 2D and it represents a major evolution in the Hasselblad X series of medium format mirrorless cameras Hasselblad is also announced three new xcd Mountain lenses we've had a 38 millimeter a 55 millimeter and a 90 millimeter all with maximum apertures of f 2.5 these are all brand new designs with an added clutch feature which is really cool and hustlebladder calling these v-series lenses all are considerably faster and quieter than the previous generation the new x2d features The Familiar Scandinavian ergonomics that we saw in the x1d and the x1d2 bodies but they have now upgraded this camera with a new 100 megapixel backside illuminated sensor a new top display contrast and phase detection autofocus and Body Image stabilization we've got a flip screen now there's one terabyte of built-in SSD storage and some other major features that we're going to discuss in this video since 2016 Hasselblad has been using the same 50 megapixel sensor and all of their medium format mirrorless body so this includes the x1d the x1d2 as well as the 907x so now we have a brand new 100 megapixel sensor which is backside illuminated and this allows us to get up to 15 stops of dynamic range at 16-bit color depth so much like the 50c cameras you can rescue both Shadow and some highlight detail which is pretty amazing and with the Hasselblad natural color system it looks simply outstanding but now we have an additional stop of dynamic range and of course now 100 megapixels of resolution also we first in any Hasselblad medium format camera is in body image stabilization this camera features five axis stabilization developed specifically for this sensor and it delivers up to seven stops of handheld shooting in difficult conditions now I also want to add that speed is probably the thing that's impressed me the most about this camera and something I really didn't expect as many of you know know I've been a big fan of all of the Hasselblad mirrorless cameras I have the original x1d last year I bought the 907x I love those cameras they produce an amazing image quality however speed has not been their strong suit and speed has greatly been upgraded with the x2d so if we compare startup times with the original x1d and I realize this is six years between these two cameras you're gonna see that the x2d just starts up into live view and it's ready to go even if we compare this with the 907x there still is a major upgrade in just the startup speed of the camera autofocus speed has also gotten a major upgrade even when you're using the older lenses so what's different about the x2d is now we have incorporation of 294 phase detection zones and so the way that autofocus works is you have contrast autofocus which is more accurate and you have phase detection autofocus points which are faster face detection is now integrated into this camera and you do notice a big speed difference one of the most surprising features for me at least on the x2d is the fact that Hasselblad has one terabyte of built-in SSD storage in this camera this allows you to write to internal storage or you can use a CF Express type B card now hasselbladder stating pretty fast speeds for the SSD that they are using they are up over 2 000 megabits a second now the way these are rated is usually never the way they actually perform and there are other factors involved too but if you're using the correct USBC cable and you're plugging into a computer that has its own SSD hard drive in it you're going to see some pretty quick speeds and the way I have mine set up is I just write to the internal SSD and I use my CF Express type B card for backup and then I have the option of plugging either one at the end of the session into the computer to copy the files and while Hasselblad may not be the first camera to do this if you compare this to something like the Leica M11 which is very cool it has internal storage it only gives you 64 gigabytes of storage we have an entire terabyte on this camera so let's talk about the sensor for a second so we are getting an additional stop of dynamic range over the previous generation of hustle blood mirrorless so the 50c sensors they were great they were rated at 14 stops but the 100 megapixel that we have in the x2d is even better so a great deal of the image quality does come from this new sensor but I also want to note that the processor that they're using that's been paired with this has a lot to do with it as well the base ISO of the camera has now been changed from ISO 100 to 64. this might not seem like a big deal to some but if you're shooting wide open on the lens in bright light maybe outside it does come in very handy another thing I found very interesting about the x2d is the way it handles higher ISO settings so with the x1d which I've used for a number of years and I love that camera the image quality that you get out of there is really awesome but it does cap out around 1600 ISO 3200 can be usable in a pinch not really recommended and of course anything above that you're going to start introducing color noise as well as just a lot of noise in general so with the x2d a lot of that has changed and I can easily use up to 6400 without a whole contrast loss it really looks pretty good now if you zoom in 100 you can see noise at 6400 but chances are unless you're actually printing this at one to one resolution you're not going to see these it's kind of an interesting thing when you down scale you're actually rescuing noise so I would say easily I'm comfortable using this up to 6400 and I can push it a little higher if I really want to it's all situational but the camera handles high isos very nicely again the biggest difference for me is that when I'm pushing the x2d I'm not getting any of that color noise that I got with the x1d when it came out now if you're curious about low light performance I'm going to report to you that it is excellent but another advantage that you have to consider here is the fact that we now have in-body image stabilization so as I mentioned this is a five axis and Hasselblad is stating that's going to give you a seven stop Advantage now what that means in the real world depends on how you're shooting my hands are fairly steady and I was able to shoot at 1 6 of a second pretty consistently which is very impressed of considering the resolution of this camera your mileage could vary a little bit depending on how steady you are but it is outstanding of course this also works with non-native lenses as well and I've gotten really excellent results with my 1961 Nikon 58 millimeter F 1.2 knocked and several of my Leica lenses that actually will cover the size of the sensor I also want to note in here that I did not use a tripod for any of the sample shots in this video everything was handheld and I should mention that some of these shots that are in fairly low light I was able to use an ISO setting of 64. that's what really good in-body image stabilization is going to do for you so a note here about image quality and while 100 megapixels is unbelievably cool especially when you're zooming in and it's very impressive I think the thing that actually impressed me the most about this camera is the weight handles dynamic range and in particular the way it renders color the x2d renders color in a 16-bit color space you can actually select between 14 and 16 bit in the quality setting in the menus and so if you go under fifth depth 14-bit is going to increase your shooting speed while 16-bit is going to improve your color range so for the photos of these dancers I used my own Fujifilm presets these are all my Fujifilm Pro via simulation that you can get in my preset pack called fujified I will put a link in the show description if you're interested in learning more on that anyway these have more of the contrast of film so the dynamic range is reduced in these they're very contrasty what I love about this sensor is it allows me to get the exposure correct with anything basically because I have so much latitude to work with this allows me to rescue highlight detail as well as Shadow detail it's a really incredible camera of course if you're just rendering these straight out of the camera with the Hasselblad natural color system you're going to get really incredible results as well so let's talk about body and handling with the x2d so if we compare this side by side with the original x1d which was the same body as the x1d2 you can see this body is a little bit thicker and there has been a little bit of redesign up near the evf we have a much upgraded evf in the x2d but I want to note here is that the designers at Hasselblad did a wonderful job of keeping that same aesthetic as the x1d and the reason that I say that is this is one of my favorite body styles of any camera it's very comfortable to use it fits well in your hand it's well balanced the weight is excellent the x2d is a little bit heavier than the x1d but if you're using the new lenses they are indeed lighter so it ends up being about the same so the first major change that you might notice on this camera is the inclusion of a top display so this is replace the mode selection dial which was a physical dial that has been moved over to the side it's now a button when you select what mode you want to be in so the top display shows you all of your shooting info this is really useful if you've got this on a tripod let's say you're in the studio or you're shooting a landscape and you just want to At a Glance see what the settings are it also does a couple other things when I insert a battery into the camera it's going to immediately tell me how much power is left on the battery I can also get to this if the battery is already in the camera and the camera's off by just doing one short push on the power button and it also indicates status function so the other day I realized that I needed to upgrade the firmware on one of my lenses and when you're doing that it gives you an arrow indicating that it is performing a firmware upgrade all in all I think this was a really smart addition to the x2d another Edition that I really love is the Press function of the rear dial so this is custom mappable I keep mine on Zoom for critical Focus so if I press in on the dial it will zoom in then I press again to zoom back out it can also be used as a selector if you're navigating in the menus without using touch so for instance if you're using the evf or something like that now the hot shoe on the top is Nikon compatible as it was with the x1d and the x1d2 so with the Nikon flash you can get TTL flash metering at any shutter speeds that's because we're using Leaf shutters that live in the lenses as Leaf shutters will let you sync up to any Speed most of them cap out at about one two thousandth of a second which is pretty fast now the only connection port on this camera is the USBC Port so this allows for power delivery and fast data transfers I mentioned earlier now there is no audio audio jack on the x2d and some of you may recall on the x1d firmware came out that enabled you to use that as a remote trigger release in fact Hasselblad even sold an accessory separately that you could buy for the camera this will still work with the 907x but this no longer works with the x2d so if you want to remote trigger the camera you're going to have to use the focus mobile app now I want to say this about Focus mobile is that with a lot of camera companies and I review a lot of cameras most of the applications that run on Android or iPhone are really not very good focus is not one of those It's actually an excellent remote triggering app it'll connect via Wi-Fi it'll give you a live view it allows you to shoot remote it's actually really good so if we move back to the viewfinder in rear screen this is where things get pretty impressive so we have a 0.5 inch 5.6 million dot OLED evf with a refresh rate of 60 frames a second and a magnification of 1.0 x this is one of the best evfs I've used on any system now there are other cameras with high resolution EVS that are very good so the Panasonic s lineup if we look at the Leica SL2 and sl2s even the gfx 100 the reason I love this one is it has a 1.0 magnification so you can really see everything in the image it is massive and it is awesome and the refresh rate helps considerably also now the rear screen is a 3.6 inch 2.36 megapixel touch display that is now tiltable for low tripod or waist level shooting there it's actually two positions that it will tilt to now the menu interface has been redesigned a little bit from the x1de 907x cameras mostly because they've simplified things so it has the same intuitive icon based interface this is one of my favorites on any camera system and they just simplified it a little bit so if you're familiar with the old one you're going to work your way around the new system just fine so let's talk for a second about autofocus on the x2d now autofocus in general is usually the Achilles heel with any medium format system there are a number of reasons for that one you have a bigger sensor which means you're going to have much bigger lenses to have the coverage to cover the sensor which means you've got more parts and they're bigger Parts in the lens and there's just more to physically move that mixed with the fact that before we only had contrast based autofocus now we have phase detection which should speed things up with the new lenses in particular Hasselblad has done an excellent job of making this a lot faster in a much more enjoyable experience so on the x1d and the x1d2 especially with the original lenses that were designed for this system autofocus was just it was accurate it was just not fast and it was a lot of sounds involved with everything hustle blood have tightened this up considerably even when you're using the older lenses with this camera it's just much faster a lot of that probably has to do with the inclusion of phase detect autofocus points but these new lenses are really incredible they're almost silent in fact I can use just regular mechanical shutter and I've found that if I'm in any situation with ambient noise this is just about silent of course with all of the Hasselblad lenses you do have manual focus override so even if you're in autofocus as long as the autofocus isn't engaged you can just turn the collar to fine tune or whatever it is that you want to do I actually set mine up for back button autofocus which is actually on all the time you just turn it into manual focus and then just use the afd button on the back of the camera this works really well for me because I'm kind of a manual focused kind of guy but there are times where I just need to do something quickly and so I go back and forth between the two but I think the autofocus is a major Improvement on this system now let's talk about video capabilities on the x2d which I'm very excited about there aren't any I don't think that any medium format camera really should have 1080 or 4K video with a sensor this size it's just too big there's too much down sampling pixel binning whatever they got to do to get the file to the right size and I just never felt that on any mirrorless medium format camera the video has been any good so that is now off of the x2d this is the Stills only camera thank goodness the x1d uses the same same battery from the x1d2 and the 907x the same charger Etc so if you upgraded this camera your batteries and accessories will all still work the battery is separated on this camera for about 420 shots the camera does feature USBC power delivery so if for some reason you'd need more robust power you can use external power from a power brick or something it also features fast charging what's kind of funny is the other day when I plugged this in I put it behind my computer I brought all the photos in I was so excited to start editing I forgot to turn the camera off and I thought oh great the batteries probably drained well it was 100 charged when I remembered it like you know 15 minutes later and actually it was like less than 50 so it is pretty quick so let's talk for a second about the new lenses so the new lenses there is a 38 millimeter a 55 millimeter and 90 millimeter they are all F 2.5 the 90 millimeter was not ready at the time that I'm filming this but I am very curious about this lens I love the 80 millimeter and actually like the older 90 millimeter as well but this one is probably going to be even better if it's anything like these other two lenses that they did send over I'll review that at a later time but I can share with you my experience with the 55 millimeter and 38 millimeter both are extremely light they are much quieter as I mentioned earlier than the previous generation of lenses hustlebladder calling these v-series lenses and you can tell just by first glance that there's a considerable aesthetic departure from the first generation of Hasselblad lenses there's a lot more going on here they don't have the the minimal Stark aesthetic as much we do have a focus ring on here as well as a custom control ring you can map this to a number of options so if you want to control aperture from here you can map it to do that I have mine set up for exposure compensation this is a really nice upgrade from the previous generation these also feature kind of a clutch system here so if I want to go into immediate manual focus I just pop up the clutch and it also gives me my depth of field scale so if you're doing something technical you can get your full depth of field scale here now one of the things that I want to note about really all of the hospital lenses they are all topped here in terms of image quality you know you've got to consider we're working with medium format so the sensor is going to be bigger than full frame and we are also dealing with very high resolution so they started out with a 50 megapixel sensor and I'm sure it was part of the roadmap all along to move up to 100 and if you're going to be future proof you got to realize that one day they're probably going to be a higher resolution than this so all of the lenses that Hasselblad have done from an Optics standpoint have been just the best in terms of resolution they also feature nice bokeh they're really good lenses as they ought to be so in terms of comparable alternatives to the x2d well we're talking about medium format mirrorless so there really aren't a whole lot of them if you went with something like the x1d2 which is a camera that I like a lot it gives you outstanding image quality I think that there's enough feature upgrades on the x2d that really make this the camera to go with moving forward of course we could also compare this with the 907x x1d2 and 907x are both 50 megapixel cameras if that is acceptable for you in terms of resolution they're both great cameras to go with the 907x is very different in terms of ergonomics and handling it's one of the most unique cameras that I've ever used and I absolutely love it but it's just a very different Beast than the x2d so the only other two medium format mirrorless Alternatives that you're going to find are the Fujifilm gfx 100 and the gfx 100s now the 100s and the 100 are both great cameras the 100s is probably the closest in terms of size and handling I think this one has much better ergonomics and it doesn't have as nice of viewfinder and there's a lot of sacrifices that you would make with the 100s which means the closest to Apples to Apple's comparison with the x2d would be the gfx 100. now to fujifilm's credit they did an excellent job with that camera I've had experience now with both of these cameras and both of these systems there are a couple reasons though why for me Hasselblad was the route to go came down to two simple things first of all is ergonomics I love the Scandinavian design of these bodies I think they're very comfortable to use very easy to work with I'm not a fan of massive cameras now if you like big cameras will the gfx 100 is that it is a big camera so ergonomics was the first decision for me the second one came down to the optical quality of the lenses now while I can say that Fujifilm definitely have more options with their lenses particularly when you get into zooms and things like that I just think the optical quality on what we've got with Hasselblad is just so much better every lens that I have used with Hasselblad has been outstanding some of my favorites the 21 millimeter if you need an ultra wide angle lens I use the 45 and the 45p all the time in fact since I've gotten the 45p it just kind of lives on the camera I love the new lenses the 38 is excellent the 55 is a new favorite another older one that I like a lot is that 80 millimeter F 1.9 you saw that in a lot of the test shots another one that I really love is the 135 millimeter F28 it gives you a really outstanding portrait focal length and it has the option to extend it as well if you need more range but for me Optical performance is kind of top of the list especially when you're talking about resolutions of 100 megapixels so my initial Impressions with the x2d I absolutely love this camera I think it is outstanding and I want to note that I pushed this camera pretty hard right up to the limits of what it really can do especially with the dancer shots that I did earlier when you're dealing with a lot of motion and a lot of things that can happen really quickly I wouldn't necessarily grab a medium format camera with a prime lens to go with but I wanted to push the camera right up to the limit of what it could do just to see what I could get and I was actually really impressed with the results so I will follow up with a full review after I've had a little bit more time with this camera but I want to thank Hasselblad for allowing me to preview this a little bit early and share it with you guys if you have any questions drop them in the comments or anything you'd like to see in the full review until the next video I'll catch you guys then later\n"