Originally posted by Fogel70 X1D is cool camera, and it's great that Hasselblad has designed a mirrorless MF system, but does it have enough advantages over FF cameras?
The biggest advantage of the smaller size it when using the camera handheld, but FF camera like K1 and A7r II might be better suited for handheld shooting as they have image stabilization, and also have faster lenses available for low light situations.
The sensor in X1D may give 0.7 stop advantage in DR and noise over a FF sensor, but image stabilization on FF may give up to 4 stops advantage over the sensor used in X1D.
X1D might have to be used on tripod or in studio with flash to show its full potential, but then the size of the camera might not be that important.
X1D will most likely be very successful for Hasselblad, but I'm not sure mirrorless MF is the best way for Pentax in the near future. Pentax already have more compact systems.
Well, basically X1D use leaf shutter only. Yup, no focal plane shutter or electronic shutter. If you ever used leaf shutter lens, you will know how quite, less vib, and reliable it is. Leaf shutter is some what Leica M series that you can still take pics at 1/15. But we need to try the camera first cause this is just a speculation. I'm going to try that camera on next week so I can give you more clear answer about leaf shutter.
Also, this camera is for studio works with studio strobes by syncing at high shutter speed. 1/2000 with iso 100 is not enough to use at outdoor. Not sure about the battery but mirrorless+MF sensor will consume much much power.
For now, I guess leaf shutter will provide quite sound, much less vibration, and no moving parts in camera. Current mirrorless cameras are having issues with mechanical shutter because of its size and limitation. But Hasselblad solved this issue by using leaf shutter lens instead of mechanical shutter in body. It would be great to have an electronic shutter but they don't. Anyway, IT IS a game changer unless the price is cheaper. Leaf shutter is a brilliant idea for mirrorless camera. But max shutter speed is 1/2000 which is quite bad. Hasselblad should've support iso from iso 25 or iso 12 due to the max shutter speed.
I'll let you know after I try out X1D on next week. It's not a production model but at least I can try if leaf shutter is worth it or not.