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There are certainly good reasons to be concerned about obsolescence, but consider care-
fully whether new equipment makes your photography or digital process more precise or
more convenient, improves your productivity or profi tability, or allows faster shooting if this
is important in your fi eld of photography. While this concern for obsolescence also applies
to Hasselblad, I feel it is greatly reduced for various reasons but especially regarding image
quality. The sensors in the present Hasselblad cameras and digital backs are much larger than
those in typical professional digital cameras, even larger than a sensor that could physically fi t
inside digital cameras, even the full frame types. With the Hasselblad sensors having a much
higher pixel number as well as considerably larger pixels, Hasselblad’s present image qual-
ity is far beyond what can be accomplished even in the most updated digital cameras and is
likely to remain that way for some time in the future. Hasselblad digital cameras and digital
backs are also constantly updated to produce high quality results for a longer period of time
(Figure 3-1 and 3-2).
As a result, the Hasselblad cameras or digital backs are more likely producing updated
high quality digital results for a longer time period and do not have to be replaced as often, if
Figure 3-1 H System digital image. A beautifully composed image in Las Vegas recorded digitally
in the H3D-31 Hasselblad camera with HC 2.2/100mm lens at ISO 800 setting. (Photo by Paul
Claesson.)
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