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Hasselblad H3DII 50
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DxOMark Sensor Scores

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Overall Score[?]
78
Portrait
(Color Depth)[?]
24.7 bits
Landscape
(Dynamic Range)[?]
12.7 Evs
Sports
(Low-Light ISO)[?]
574 ISO

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Type Professional 
Announced 2007-11-26 
Indicative price (USD) 20000  
Sensor type CCD 
Resolution 8282 x 6240  
Sensor photo detectors (Mpix) 51.68  
Sensor size (mm) 37.0 x 49.0 
Color filter array RGB 
Pixel pitch (µm) 5.93  
Bits per pixel 15 
Focal length multiplier 0.70 
Aspect Ratio 4:3 
ISO latitude  50 - 400 
Shutter type Mechanical 
Fastest - Slowest speed (s) 1/800 - 32  
Frame rate (fps) 0.9  
Live view  No 
Stabilization  No 
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Color response
Sensitivity metamerism index
ISO 17321 		78
 
White balance scales R raw 2.43
G raw 1
B raw 1.32
 
    R sRGB G sRGB B sRGB
Color matrix as defined in ISO standard 17321 R raw 2.69 -1.5 -0.19
G raw -0.3 1.8 -0.5
B raw 0.08 -0.91 1.83

Full Color Sensitivity: Noise covariance ellipses in CIE 1931 Lab color space
Select ISO : 50
(ISO are manufacturer ISO)
 
Select luminance : 30








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Further readings for the Hasselblad H3DII 50

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News  |  May 14, 2009
Hasselblad H3DII-50

Dxomark.com adds the Hasseblad H3DII 50 to its database, and its results coincide with those of the previously-analyzed H3DII 39. With a global DxOMark score of 78.2, the H3DII 50 ranks number 8, very close to the H3DII 39, which achieved a score of 75.3.

News  |  May 14, 2009

New data for the Phase One P65+ and the Hasselblad H3DII 50

Read the DxOMark reviews for these new medium-format models

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Medium-format ranking

Professional portrait and landscape photographers often use medium-format cameras because of their superb performance under controlled lighting conditions. However, as these cameras are definitely not designed for so-called “action photography” scenarios, they generally do not perform well with respect to DxO Labs’ Low-Light ISO metric. Because of this inherent low-light limitation, medium-format cameras do not receive top marks on the DxOMark Sensor Overall Score, even though they may show outstanding performance with respect to Color Depth or Dynamic Range.

Comments
Added by eireann |  April 29, 2012

Hasselblad dynamic range

Interesting that the Hasselbald's dynamic range is worse than the one of the Nikon D800. Just yesterday I watched a video on youtube where someone compared both cameras and found that Hasselblad's dynamic rage is unbeatable.

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Added by MikeWhis |  May 01, 2012

Re: Hasselblad dynamic range

Dynamic range is determined by the read noise and saturation capacity. The Hasselblad is very likely to have a high saturation capacity, that's why their highlights are less likely to be blown out, but you couldn't get much information from the shadows. If you underexposed the D800 and brighten it up in post, it is very likely to have more dynamic range than if you did the same to Hasselblad.

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Added by vdhamer |  May 04, 2012

Re: Hasselblad dynamic range

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The Hasselblad is very likely to have a high saturation capacity, that's why their highlights are less likely to be blown out, but you couldn't get much information from the shadows.


Actually the Hasselblad H3DII_50 doesn't really have an unusually high "full well" or saturation capacity. It is, for example, lower than a camera with a similar pixel size that was also released in 2007: the Canon 1Ds Mark III (see http://www.sensorgen.info/). The Hasselblad also has more background noise, and a lower quantum efficiency. All-in-all the medium format sensors consistently under-perform in terms of dynamic range (especially considering that they should be able to outperform smaller sensors).

The rest of your analysis sounds sensible to me: it is easy to avoid blown highlights (for any saturation capacity) by appropriately (under)exposing. But that brings you uncomfortably close to the noise floor for scenes with dark shadows. I find it harder to judge whether or when people should care about this.

Peter

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