A giant step forward for the design of medium-format digital cameras

£5,990/$6,400

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1 You’re used to the shutter release being on top of the camera? This is a Hasselblad.

2 The 907X uses the same lenses as the X1D II, but other lenses can be fitted via adapters.

Specifications

Sensor: 50MP medium-format CMOS sensor, 43.8x32.9mm

Image processor: Not quoted

AF points: 117-point contrast AF

ISO range: 100-25,600

Metering modes: Spot, centre-weighted, centre spot

Video: 2.7K (2,720 x 1,530) up to 30p

Viewfinder: None (optional extra)

Memory card: Two SD/SDHC/SDXC (UHS-II) LCD: 32-inch tilting touchscreen, 2.36m dots

Connectivity: Wi-Fi Size: 102 x 93 x 84mm

Weight: 740g (907X + CFV II 50C), excluding battery and memory card

The Hasselblad 907X 50C achieves two remarkable things. It’s an affordable entry point to Hasselblad’s modular medium-format system, and it also resurrects the classic Hasselblad 500 film camera range, at a price that makes bringing these cameras out of retirement a feasible proposition - especially as many are still working today.

Hasselblad’s modular medium-format cameras now come in two types. You have the big, bulky and expensive H6, the latest in the Hasselblad H series of digital SLRs. This is sold with a 100MP digital back, with a sensor roughly the size of old medium-format 645 (6 x 4.5cm) film, once you allow for a few millimetres’ rebate around the film area. This is so-called ‘full-frame’ digital medium-format. The H6D-100C costs around $33,000, body only.

Now we have the 907X, a smaller camera with a smaller 50MP sensor. It’s still medium-format, 67% larger in area than full-frame. Think of it as having the same relationship to ‘true’ full-frame medium-format as APS-C sensors have to full-frame.