Photography by Mike Mander | Hasselblad H4D-60 Walkabout

Hasselblad H4D-60 Walkabout

March 26th

A day out and about, shooting with a 60 megapixel Hasselblad H4D-60 medium format digital system that was on loan from Hasselblad USA. Frames 1-7 are at Pitt Lake, frames 8-10 in Golden Ears Park, frames 11-18 on the new PItt River bridge and frames 19-20 are taken from the top of Burnaby Mtn. There are 100% crop sections you can zoom in on as well, and most are well over 3000 pixels wide. Metadata is included but oddly enough, the lens focal length does not show. The three lenses were the HC 35mm, the HC 80mm and the HC 150mm. Most shots were on a tripod but 4, 7, 11, 12 and 13 were handheld if I recall.

Raw captures were converted to DNG in Hasselblad's Phocus software and then processed in Adobe Lightroom. No CA or distortion correction was done and I will note that Lightroom maybe does not handle the digital back files as well as those from DSLRs. I think the sharpening and demosaic algorithms are optimized for sensors with anti-aliasing filters. There is more artifacting in Lightroom on a few photos than there would have been if I had just used Hasselblad's own software.