The new Hasselblad X1D will ship in USA on December 1 at BHphoto and on December 15 in Europe via Calumet.de. The camera is also available for preorder at WexUK with no shipment date info.
The Black Friday madness started and those are the links to check out for the best deals:
In USA at Amazon, Bhphoto, eBay, Adorama, BestBuy, Target and Walmart.
In EU at Amazon DE, UK, FR, IT, ES.
And here the direct links to the manufacturer deals:
Sony camera and lens savings at Adorama and BHphoto.
Panasonic camera and lens savings at BHphoto and Adorama.
Olympus camera and lens savings at Adorama, GetOlympus and BHphoto.
And so far it’s Sony that seems to have the most appealing deals. Check out the Amazon ranking (Click here).
Let me catch up with some of the rumros floating on the web:
In case you missed it this is the GF Lens roadmap which now has been re-presented in Japan (via DC.watch). What’s also nice is that they posted this GFX shutter sound test:
And last but not leats…a couple of shots with that cool EVF:
Egami spotted a new Nikon patent which describes a new 2-Layer sensor. On top it has a phase detection autofocus layer and below the “normal” RGB sensor. This would allow Nikon to have advanced professional autofocus system on mirrorless system cameras.
Of course, we don’t long it will take for Nikon to make this new tech available on a production camera. Let’s hope this is coming soon!
The new Hasselblad X1D will start shipping next week at BHphoto. And here is the full user guide in PDF format:
http://static.hasselblad.com/2016/06/X1D_USER-GUIDE-Book_161003.pdf
DxO shared this very interesting graph. it shows:
Software improvement has been at least twice as effective as hardware improvements….
