I’m taking a break from testing the Hasselblad X2D II body so I can test the XCD 35-100 lens. I mounted the lens to the X2D II, and clipped them onto an Arca Swiss C1 that was perched on a Foba camera stand. I set the camera up as follows: ISO 50 AFS-S 14-bit precision… [Read More]
Hasselblad X2D II FWC, RN at ISO 50
Did Hasselblad play any games to get the base ISO on the X2D II to 50? I ran some photon transfer curves to find out. I’ll plot both of those on the same graph and add a horizontal line at Bill Claff’s Photographic Dynamic Range threshold: Not much difference. It appears that… [Read More]
Hasselblad X2DII EDR and read noise vs exposure time
Lengthening the shutter speed of the X2D decreases the engineering dynamic range (EDR) in the way you’d expect. This test was performed using electrinic shutter (ES). 16 bit precision Not much difference between 14 and 16 bit precision. The different treatment of the two green channela in the half-second region appears… [Read More]
Hasselblad X2D II read noise spectra
In the previous post, I looked at the amplitude of the read noise in the X2DII, reporting the results in engineering dynamic range (EDR). In this post, I’ll look at the spectra of the read noise. Three of the raw channels look great at base ISO. There is quite a bit of… [Read More]
Hasselblad X2D II EDR
The nice folks at Lensrentals sent me a Hasselblad X2D-100CII and the 35-100mm XCD lens to test. This is the first in what will probably be about a dozen posts on the camera and the lens. One of the things that I do with a new camera to suss out how much spatial filtering exists… [Read More]