hi this is jp morgan today on the slanted lens i'm out shooting some food trucks
i've got with me my favorite camera and probably the entire world and that's the x1d incredible
camera by hasselblad i love the image on this camera but what i have with me today is the xh
converter it's an 0.8 converter and what it does it converts to this x series of cameras which are
their mirrorless cameras it converts all their lenses their hc or 8 cd lenses back to this x
camera the xh converter is a focal length reducer not a speed booster even though a lot of people
call them speed boosters because it's like a kleenex you know the first people that made these
they call them speed boosters and so like kleenex everything you blow your nose with is a kleenex
so it is a focal length reducer which means it reduces the focal length which gives you a wider
angle of view by 0.8 it also gives you a brighter image by 0.8 that's about two-thirds of a stop
and that's significant when you realize that you're going to get a a faster aperture because
of using this converter so i'm just curious to see exactly how it works i've been shooting food
trucks to see exactly what we're going to get with it does the autofocus work as fast
are the lens is as sharp i mean exactly what do we get we know they're going to be brighter
faster and we know we're going to have a little wider angle of view because of using the converter
so we're just going to see what each one of these lenses does and take some pictures so the price
tag for this is 949 that's not inexpensive but in the hasselblad world that's not expensive either
because lenses are very very expensive so but if you have some ac and hcd lenses and you have an x
camera you're gonna definitely want this converter be able to use those hc or hcd lenses on the new
x system so it makes sense that purchase makes sense if you have those lens in that combination
so there's the 50 millimeter hd 50 millimeter i'm going to take a shot
with that and i'm also going to take a shot here with the 45 mil millimeter x series lens
it's pretty hard to beat that for size and weight with that mirrorless camera
that 50 millimeter definitely gives me the hc 50 millimeter definitely gives me a little wider
angle of view i can see my shadow in the corner better with that 15 millimeter even
though it's a 50 millimeter than i can with the 45 millimeter the 45 millimeter has just a little
narrower angle of view also gives me two thirds of a stop from that 3.5 i can go to 2.8 when you
get 2.8 on a medium format lens that's a pretty sweet spot to be it's a very shallow depth of
field looks excellent so when i'm shooting on this hc 100 millimeter lens it's a 2.2 lens
it gives me a 1.8 and also gives me a field of view of an 80 millimeter so it's a perfect
portrait lens i do some great portrait shots with it the way i let these uh the gentleman is food
truck is i've got a wescott 200 fj200 and i use the beauty dish because the beauty dish is softer
it's got that insert in it and the light bounces back in the bar in the dish and it just gives you
a much softer light up front but when i feathered away from him and i dial it way down and i let my
uh shutter drag a little bit i get a little taste of the ambient light and i just open
up his face a little bit with that strobe and it looks fabulous so i shot some really fun stuff of
anna with this 24 millimeter lens this is a 4.8 but it gives you a 3.8 when you use a converter
but it also gives you a 19 millimeter uh field of view which is pretty incredible it's wider than
the 21 millimeter that you get in the x-series the x-series 21 millimeter so it's the widest x lens
you can put on this camera uh when you use this converter because it gives you that 19 millimeter
and also a 3.8 i've been doing some autofocus tests here i've been shooting both of the 45
x lands and then i've been using the 50 millimeter hc lens and i've not seen a big difference between
those two i'm really not um they're about the same speed it's contrast autofocus it's not my
favorite part about this camera the autofocus is very slow very deliberate just doesn't give you a
fast autofocus but i didn't see a big difference with the xh converter i saw it was about the
same at least that's my experience so let's wrap this up my feeling about this converter is that
if you want a wider field of view or if you have hc or hcd lenses this is makes perfect sense you
really should invest in this converter because it's going to help you get those lenses onto the
x-series cameras it's going to give you the glass with a little wider view it makes a lot of sense
i don't love the weight that this creates this is the 50 millimeter which i do love on the camera
and i love the images i get but it is a very large heavy kind of setup whereas when i put
that 45 on there that feels like the solution that a mirrorless camera really is all about
so if i was entering the hasselblad ecosystem i would buy x series lenses with the mirrorless
camera the x camera or the 907x those are great compatible small compact lenses but if i had hc or
hcd lenses i would absolutely buy this converter because it's going to allow me to get those lenses
on maybe architectural kinds of work i may buy the 50 millimeter for that because it gives you such
a wide view and a really fast aperture that's something that's very intriguing to me so there
are some applications that'll make a lot of sense for this uh there's some fashion applications
that 100 millimeter lens becomes a great 85 if you're shooting kind of fashion or portrait i mean
it's really a great lens in that way so there's some really advantages here and some disadvantages
as all life is but again i love the color love the camera so keep those cameras rolling and keep on
clicking
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