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I have never had to convert from HDMI. I always have the converter at my cart (sdi to analog and digital to digital, both for my old monitor), because they are my own. I use the Blackmagic converters - "updowncross" and "SDI - Analog". They work really well, but do get very hot during the day
The best compromise back for most Hasselblad enthusiasts is an older CCD back with larger approx 37mm x 49mm sensor like Phase One P25+ or P65+. This gives you a digital sensor close to the size of the Hasselblad 645 (rectangular) film back, which only crops your lens AOV slightly. These backs can be found from $4000 and up. Again, high ISO is tricky, and you would need to adjust your shooting style from square to horizontal landscape format. The waist level finder is useless for verticals, you would likely need a prism finder.
The 80mm vs 100mm debate is endless, but basically futile in the age of 50MP and 100MP digital MF sensors. On film the 100mm is slightly better in certain applications, primarily detailed distance shots at infinity. Its extremely low (nonexistent) distortion made it invaluable for aero and architecture in the days before easy PhotoShop correction. The 80mm Planar is the more general purpose lens: the focal length is more versatile (with film anyway) and its better in the closeup range than the 100mm. It has a little bit of distortion and isn't quite as good wide open as the 100mm (but then again, the 100mm can't open up to f/2.8 either). Using older lower-resolution backs with smaller sensors, there is little to distinguish between the performance of the 80mm vs 100mm. The sensor crops the middle sweet spot of the image circle of either lens, and any slight distortion remaining in the 80mm is easily corrected in post. All of the classic Hasselblad Zeiss lenses will perform nicely on the older 16MP-22MP sensors: in fact, they were the default digital platform in professional photography for nearly a decade.
I like the fact that the digital camera gives me options like the choice to shoot square format if I want. I like that I can choose to shoot in black and white too and see what the results will be right in the viewfinder before I even take the photo. I like that the process of capturing photos will probably slow down with this camera.
After 2 F bodies I bought a new F2, with the "SB" prism that was the last non-Ai head. Officially F2SB body. One advantage at the time is that it was the first head using photo-transistor "blue cells" for metering, which had much greater metering capability than the Cadmium Sulfide cells in the heads that preceded it. But unlike the subsequent Ai heads that required a photo-optical "tunnel" to read the aperture right off the F stop ring, my SB head had illuminated wheels for shutter speed AND F stop. I was shooting a lot in dark places like the Garden in NYC and being able to see both in the dark was a luxury. I was so used to manually indexing the lenses on Photomic and FTN bodies that not having Ai didn't bother me. This made the F2SB my go-to low light body.
While in general, digital cameras use a flat sensor, Sony prototyped a curved sensor in 2014 to reduce/eliminate Petzval field curvature that occurs with a flat sensor. Use of a curved sensor allows a shorter and smaller diameter of the lens with reduced elements and components with greater aperture and reduced light fall-off at the edge of the photo.[21]
Early CCD sensors suffered from shutter lag. This was largely resolved with the invention of the pinned photodiode (PPD).[7] It was invented by Nobukazu Teranishi, Hiromitsu Shiraki and Yasuo Ishihara at NEC in 1980.[7][31] It was a photodetector structure with low lag, low noise, high quantum efficiency and low dark current.[7] In 1987, the PPD began to be incorporated into most CCD devices, becoming a fixture in consumer electronic video cameras and then digital still cameras. Since then, the PPD has been used in nearly all CCD sensors and then CMOS sensors.[7]
Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is the most popular metadata format used in digital photography. It provides a way of embedding a fixed vocabulary of metadata properties in many file formats, such as JPEG, TIFF, RIFF, and WAV. Exif stores metadata as pairs of a metadata name and a metadata value. These metadata name-value-pairs are also called tags, not to be confused with the tagging in Experience Manager. Modern digital cameras create Exif metadata and modern graphics software support it. Exif format is the lowest common denominator for metadata management especially for images.
Image sensors are found at the heart of every camera system and convert incoming light into electronic signals. We are investigating image sensors for next-generation camera systems. This work involves multi-disciplinary electronics research including photonics and optics, semiconductor devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and VLSI, digital image signal processing, and electronics systems design. The major thrusts in our activity are as follows:
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