In another context, the question of the shutter latency of the Hasselblad X2D in mechanical shutter mode came up. I have a way of accurately measuring shutter latency by triggering a camera and a scope at the same time using a remote release on the camera, and measuring the delay between that triggering and the… [Read More]
Archives for February 2024
How modern camera shutters work
There seems to be some confusion on the issue of how modern camera shutters work. I’m going to try to clear some of that up in this post. Some caveats: There are variations among camera manufacturers that I’m going to gloss over. This applies to CMOS sensors that employ at least one analog to digital… [Read More]
Hasselblad XCD 90V bokeh at high shutter speeds
In the previous two posts. I looked at the out of focus point spread functions for the XCD 90V lens on a Hasselblad X2D 100C camera. The shutter blades were visible. In this post, I’ll look at out of focus images with the lens set at f/2.5 and 1/4000 second. The subjects have both strong… [Read More]
More on high shutter speed bokeh with the X2D and the XCD 90V
In the last post, I looked at the out of focus (OOF) point spread functions (PSFs) of the Hasselblad XCD 90V 90mm f/2.5 lens on a Hasselblad X2D 100C. I did the test with a new production lens I’d just received. As expected, at high shutter speeds the OOF PSFs departed quite significantly from the… [Read More]
High shutter speed out of focus point spread functions with the XCD 90V
A reader asked me to test the high shutter speed bokeh of the Hasselblad XCD 90V on the X2D. I made the tests with my recently acquired production version of the lens. For a source, I used an LED flashlight with a 15 or 20 mm aperture at a distance of about 10 meters. That’s… [Read More]