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Focal-range chart comparing the XCD 35-100E zoom span against the four V primes at 25, 38, 55, and 90mm, with weights and the aperture gap annotated

Hasselblad XCD 35-100E vs the V Primes: I Owned Both and Chose Twice

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A variant of this question lands on almost every Hasselblad forum almost every week in some form. "Help me bridge the gap: 35-100mm zoom or the 55V prime?" "35-100 or 90V + 38V?" "One lens to rule them all?" The answers inevitably split

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
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The complete Hasselblad RAW workflow: cull in Palomino, Phocus pass, 16-bit TIFF, Lightroom Classic

A Complete Hasselblad RAW Workflow: Cull, Phocus, 16-Bit TIFF, Lightroom

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Every week the same question surfaces on r/hasselblad, in the Facebook groups, or in my inbox: what does a sensible Hasselblad workflow actually look like, start to finish? The answers people get are usually fragments. Someone explains their culling setup, someone else defends Phocus, a third person says they

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
workflow
Excerpt of Hasselblad's official X2D 100C datasheet listing Colour Definition as 16-bit and Capture Rate as 3.3fps in a 14-bit colour depth

Hasselblad X2D 100C: RAW Bit Depth, Buffer, and Continuous Shooting Specs

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Search for the X2D 100C's RAW bit depth or its continuous shooting buffer and Google mostly hands you an article about a different camera. The Hasselblad X2D II shares a sensor lineage with the original X2D 100C, but the two bodies handle continuous shooting differently enough that specs

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
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Phocus on macOS rendering a Hasselblad 3FR: image viewer with live histogram and the Adjust panel's Exposure and White Balance tools

How HNCS Actually Works: Hasselblad's Color Science Explained

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HNCS isn't baked into your files at capture. Here's how Hasselblad's render-time color pipeline in Phocus actually works, mechanism by mechanism.

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
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Phocus on macOS with a Hasselblad 3FR file open: folder browser, image viewer, live histogram, and the Adjust panel with Exposure and White Balance tools

What Is Hasselblad Phocus? A Free RAW Editor for Mac

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If you just bought a Hasselblad X System camera, or you're deciding whether to, "Phocus" is the word you might keep running into and nobody quite defines. It's Hasselblad's own photo editing software, it's free, and depending on who you

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
phocus
One X2D II dog photo in three bands: Capture One, Phocus, and Lightroom renders, each a different brightness

Phocus, Capture One, or Lightroom? I Measured Instead of Guessing

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The same Hasselblad RAW, measured in Phocus, Capture One, and Lightroom: tone, color, and lens handling differ more than you'd guess.

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
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Hasselblad X2D II 100C firmware 1.3.16.1 release notes: Android connection optimisation and interval preview exposure fix

Hasselblad X2D II Firmware 1.3.16.1 is Available

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Hasselblad published firmware 1.3.16.1 for the X2D II 100C today, the same day Phocus Mobile for Android V1.0.0 landed. No press release for the firmware, no email, nothing on their news page. My firmware tracker caught it this morning. The release notes list exactly two

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
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Hasselblad's Phocus 4.2.1 read-me Change Log page. The 4.2.1 entry has two bullets: optimize thumbnail loading, and fix other known issues. The 4.1.2 entry below it has eleven.

Phocus 4.2.1 for Mac Has Eleven Words of Release Notes

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Hasselblad released Phocus 4.2.1 for Mac on July 15th. As I write this, their own Phocus product page still lists 4.2 as the current version. The build is on their CDN and in the API that feeds the downloads page. The page just hasn't caught

Konrad Michels
Konrad Michels
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