Why a Camera is Worth $40k: Hasselblad H6D 

David Alekhuogie what does it rent for?

Sea Panther. It really depends on what you get. And where you rent I’ve been renting in Europe lately and it’s about 2500 for a kit. For a few days. But it could more or less But that gets me a whole kit. Which includes a laptop with capture one pre installed. The camera all the tether cables and a couple lenses. I hardly ever deal with the actual logistics tho. I’m sure a lot of photographers work differently but I just kind of make a list where I say what I want and email another person who’s job it is to arrange that. So far I’ve worked for about with 5 brands I’m still kind of new to fashion and out of those 5. 4 had somebody on staff whose job it was to arrange that equipment and just help with production.

I'll disagree, from a sign company and visual marketing agency owner standpoint. It' doesn't matter how hi-res you make a file and send, print media is printed at 300dpi maybe 500 TOPS. Your 100mp isn't necessary at all. Now the photographer in me says that speed of sensor and ability to shoot with near non-existent grain is a good thing. But guess what, a Canon 5D mkIII is plenty fine as well. $40k is a waste and your justification is ridiculous.

Creative Mofoo. Which means you should know there are practical uses for that much resolution. I actually have a lot more experience working as a professional fine art printer than as a photographer. That’s how I paid the bills as a student. I still do here and there. And yes “most printers print at that 300dpi” . Personally I print at about 360. But that being said if you do your math. A native 100 megapixel file spits out a a print just shy of 40x50in at 300dpi which is common In the art world. Very common. And my backlit fashion work is about 60x80in on the small end. Now with the math out of the way you can totally cheat and push resolution by about 100percent and still get great results. You can even do 200 percent and still get a good print if you stand back. By interpolating and letting the computer make up the extra resolution. Which means the bare minimum you need for a critical 40x50in print is about 50mp. But by no means will it be as good as a 100mp native file. then you deal with enlargement factors and magnification which are even more important. And have to do with the size of the sensor but I don’t want to invite that debate. For example the practical scenarios where you can actually resolve resolution go up along with sensor size. I will say this like everything “there are levels to this” walk into a museum and your likely to find prints from 8x10 film which scaned can easily break 500mp in real resolved resolution. and to be honest if anybody really wants to print super large and have people be able to get right up to a print and see detail I would encourage learning to shoot large format film. It’s pretty affordable and also incredible rewarding and will teach technique like no other camera. But I dunno if your working with a crew or creative team. A digital medium format is pretty handy.what I wouldn’t do is convince yourself a dslr is the same thing. Is a 5dmkiii good enough? probably. Is it the best you can do. Not even close. Life is too short to make mediocre prints if you don’t have to. I get paid to show up to make my work the best I can possibly make it. And I’m aware that from a business standpoint it makes me a little bit rare.

David Alekhuogie: I dont see many people standing inches away from a 40x50" print, I dont think your argument holds much weight.

If you can afford a Hasselblad, you can afford to not use a strap

zeroangelmk1 it's also available for rental, so a strap is a must.

@@zeroangelmk1 So when you drop it and miss the shot, you can say "Its's okay, i can afford it" ?

wrg, doesn tmatter

@@zeroangelmk1 it is a completely false statement

That sounds like such a strange thing to make up that I’ll take your word for it, that’s so cool!

It is much more important what are results of your works, than the instruments you are using for achieving them. The biggest part of photos this guys with big expensive cameras are doing - is a simply boring shit, which not worth 10$ for it.

my entire gear costs me $200

it's crazy, that ammount of money for a f/3.5

@@DitoAldiSoekarnoPutra Same bruh, I got a Nikon Coolpix P100, along with the SD card, monopod, SD card reader, Lens adapter, etc.

you would get more satisfaction and use out of a Hasselblad camera than a lamborghini, trust me those cars arent made to be driven around in places most of us would take them

Justin Rios I think you may find google to be a valuable resource.

@@SinisterRubberDuckie I think he might find a mild sense of tolerance to be a useful resource.

Tom Kaszuba Rent one.

@RimaTuna You realize that doesn't make it great... I mean Huawei phones have "Leica" plastered all over them and they still take average photos.

I wonder how many drone he crash, this guy has a camera/drone cemetery in his studio

Hell also engrave his name and return address on it, and cover up any brand or model names with electrical tape.

And engrave words into it

Hahahahahahahahahah...that’s true he breaks everything he gets his hands on

TYler_ SChecter *gaff tape

Irene Rudnyk picked it up to heavy

Doesnt look beautiful to me, it has the looks of 1980's tech, sure the pictures look swell though but 40k's worth)...no, the vast majority of photographers will find 100MP files cumbersome and quality differences negligible compared to say a 24Mp camera for anything except super large prints that no one prints anyway.. Plus the feature list will be as basic as a low end mirrorless, no eye autofocus etc. The people that buy this outside of corporation advertising are bling masters showing off to their friends.

You don't buy a Hasselblad for its appearance, you buy it for the appearance of the photos it takes.

Jody Bruchon: No the majority buy it to either impress their clientele or their friends, the few remaining actually need those slight improvements in image quality. Point is Hasselblad charges enough money, that they should have all the feature list of a good mirror-less as well as the sensor improvement.

A Hasselblad in your hands certainly wouldn't be out of place, Irina. Judging by your work, you're ripe enough to use it.

I thought the same thing 😁

truly underrated comment

Most things since the age of mass production are grossly overpriced actually. The iPhone is the best example of this, it's probably worth $150 so selling it at $400 would be absolutely fine, but people will pay $1800 if they charge it, so Apple does :)

@@vaughnsigal4560 don't agree so much for the base model, but this definitely happens for the upgrades

@@vaughnsigal4560 not true, actually every phone is built while those who built it keeps something as their first priority. In case of apple their priority is optimization and camera quality and both these things cost most money because of lenses used and processor core in camera and optimization so their price is legit, I don't need to mention this but they have to find their portion of margin too so the price is not completrly legit but yea not too overpriced like 150dollars for the 450 dollars phone. ;)

@@prajwal07sharma Ok sure, but the price Apple charges is purely because they know people will pay it. Check out the specs on the Xiaomi Mi9 for reference...

right on! pictures of the granddaughter are smashing!!

3:40 lens problem. severe barrel distortion. See the part of the lens of the hasselblad, it's bent like crazy.

Man! I lived there for few months and there's just something about that city that makes me want to come back

Filip Ruml that's awesome you got to spend some time there! Great place

I agree!

Do you think you can use the search feature provided by many internet websites?

Haha, yes :) the grip is well suited to hold and shutter release with your thumb

Worst of money for selfies

go look up how much a red monstro is

@@fastballfilms4214 Yeah, crazy. I've advanced far from the GH5 by now though. Filming on the URSA Mini 4.6k G2 and Bmpcc6k's now. Reliable, clean output and affordable!

What!? No way, thanks! 🙌

Tyler Stalman you deserve it man this is my second video I watch of you & your quality of work is just mind blowing 🤯

😂 I’m so glad somebody spotted that. I regret not doing slow zoom into it

That 100mm lens is stunning. I had it adapted to an x1dii and the bokeh is pretty incredible

second to that ! the colors are soooo natural compared to those m31 users

I’m uploading some full res to Flickr

With that resolution, the storage on my desktop would actually explode (I mean imagine shooting this for everyday and keeping all those photos lol)

dipesh kumar gadiya that's not megapixels, that's just a zoom lens.

and totally un-needed by almost everyone. Like buying a 200mph car to drive on British roads.

Okay, I am retarded but The *sensor* itself, the part that captures the light is 100mp. Lenses doesn't have megapixels lol

the rice of the device... interesting

Doctor James Kotina 😂 but rice is so so cheap in comparison!!!

“The poor man’s d850”...What a true idiot.

@@The7dioses someone's salty lol

@@Henry_44 Nah... just calling a spade a spade. I use high end medium format systems and I also use a d850. Would never define a d850 a "poorman's" anything.

*O H N O*

Paul Robinson how can you afford that