Ah, yeah. I think they also played with the idea of having some kind of DXO attachment for the smartphone to be a camera, right? I don’t think it took off, but it was cool idea at the time. Especially when the smartphone cameras were not as good as they are today.
cameras are still not good - but what is good is the processing … and convenience of having it always w/ you
Depends on the output you are going for and purpose. If you are casually documenting something, sending a picture to a friend, document “scanning” etc. You don’t need anything larger and it would be counterproductive anyway. Every tool is not for every job, so you pick the best available. There way a time when phone cameras were not even good for the things I mentioned. Today they are. Not good enough for some other type of work for sure, but far from bad. Especially from where we came from.
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This is why I didn’t point out the failure to support the Hasselblad range was particularly silly because according to DXOMark the Hasselblads have (or until very recently did) have the best commercially available sensors in the world. That said maybe there is a point there that their software has failed to support the leading line of cameras in the world.
That’s useful. TBH I use the Hasselblad Phocus software which has all the necessary adjustments built in and is pretty good. I’m deeply disappointed the DXO software doesn’t work on these, and that’s why I haven’t upgraded to version 6.
Anyway the main reason I’m disappointed is that my CFVII works with old Hasselblad lenses too and you can even use the old 500/501 prisms but the failure of DXO to support it means that they have effectively locked the old antique ecosystem of Hasselblad out. They don’t support the 907x either which you use if you don’t care for prisms.
From the list of supported cameras and lenses I see that PhotoLab can process RAW images from the Hasselblad 907X & CFV II 50C. However, this does not seem to work when using the CFV II 50C on an older analog camera body e.g. my 205TCC. This is also true if I have previously converted the shots to DNG format in Phocus.
Does that only leave me with the option of converting the images to TIFF format in Phocus beforehand if I want to edit them in PhotoLab?
I’ve been struggling with the CFV 100C and an old 500C body for the past week, with various old C/CF lenses under PureRAW.
The 907X & CFV 100C are fine, all my XCD lenses, even the unsupported TTARTISAN 90mm F1.25, worked, but the images taken with the 500C body wouldn’t open.
I compared the EXIF data of the openable and problematic 3FR files, and it turned out that if the camera model field doesn’t say “CFV 100C/907X”, the application won’t open them.
With the 500C body, these fields are the following depending on the electronic shutter: “CFV 100C/500” and “CFV 100C/Electronic Shutter”
With a hex editor (unfortunately Exiftool does not yet support writing 3FR files) I changed this model information to “CFV 100C/907X” and the application was able to open and process them. (except for the lens correction module data for the old Planar lenses, but other functions like noise reduction worked fine)
That is interesting. My 3FR files have CFV II 50C/200 in this field.
I will try your method too. Which hex editor can you recommend?
I would like to get away from Lightroom, after Adobe recently drastically increased the price of the Photo subscription by 50%. However, I also use NegativLab Pro in Lightroom for my analog negatives and I haven’t found a better alternative yet.
On this occasion, I have another question about the Hasselblad V-model / CFV digital back combination:
Unlike your 500C, my 205TCC has a built-in light meter and a focal plane shutter. As with almost all other cameras, the light meter can be activated by pressing the shutter button halfway down.
But when I do this, the electronic shutter of the CFV 50 triggers and starts exposing a new image. However, since the CFV is not receiving any light (the focal plane shutter is not yet open), a long exposure is triggered, which I have to cancel by switching off the CFV. A black image is then written to the memory card.
If I press the shutter release button fully without pausing halfway, a correct picture is taken.
Have you ever experienced this behavior or heard of it before?
