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Hasselblad H3D II-39MS Multi-Shot Digital Camera Overview

The World's Best DSLR Camera Has Just Gotten Even Better
With the introduction of the H3DII -39MS, Hasselblad further refines the concept of high-end full-frame DSLR cameras. The H3DII -39MS, complements the fourth generation H3DII high-end DSLR, with multishot functionality: the ultimate choice for still life studio photography. Moir￩ free images that exhibit a level of sharpness, resolution and color fidelity that you have to experience to believe are now attainable. This capability incorporated with the unparalleled abilities of the H3DII produce an unbeatable combination in the world of digital medium format photography today. The H3DII -39MS includes H3DII s UltraFocus architecture giving access to the newest HCD 28mm lens, designed and optimized solely for digital image capture. Software features including Digital Auto Correction lifts image quality to a level yet unseen in digital photography, including automatic correction for chromatic aberration, distortion and vignetting.

Non-compromising details and colors
The multi-shot technology realizes the capture of still life subjects with all details represented in true detail and color resolution. By capturing a sequence of 4 shots, each offset by a one pixel increment, every point on your set is rendered with its true red, green and blue color components. In this way, true detail and true color are acquired without interpolation of any kind. For stills photography it simply does not get better. When used outdoors or on location, the H3DI-39MS can perform normal single-shot mode photography too.

Ultra-Focus and Digital Auto Correction for image perfection
Using the Ultra-Focus engine of H3DI-39MS the full HC lens program is further enhanced, bringing a new level of sharpness and resolution. Hasselblad's Digital Auto Correction for color aberration, distortion and vignetting is then added.

The design of the 28mm HCD lens has been optimized for the
actual 36 x 48mm area of the sensor to make it more compact and to work in conjunction with DA C.

The highly renowned HC/HCD lens line uses central lens shutters, which adds flexibility by allowing flash to be employed at shutter speeds up to 1/800s. The central shutter also improves image quality by reducing camera vibration. And thanks to the large format of the H System cameras, there is a considerably shallower depth of field range, making it much easier to utilize selective focus to creative effect.

View-camera work
The H3DI-39MS has been designed to allow the digital capture unit to be detached and used on a view camera by way of an H system adapter. In this configuration the digital capture device can work with electronic shutters from ex. Rollei and Schneider, either stand-alone using the flash sync signal from the shutter or tethered to a computer with full control of the electronic shutter from the computer.

Medium format digital capture
In digital photography, the advantages of larger format cameras have become even more obvious. The 6ￗ4.5 cm window allows the Hasselblad H3DI-39MS to use the largest image sensors currently available in digital photography  up to more than twice the size of a 35mm camera sensor. Consequently the sensor holds more and larger pixels, which deliver the highest possible image quality in terms of moir￩-free color rendering without gradation break-ups in even the finest lit surfaces.

A choice of bright viewfinders
One of the important traditional advantages of the medium format is the extra-large and bright viewfinder image, enabling extremely precise compositions and easy operation in dim lighting. An interchangeable waist-level viewfinder, the HVM, is available for the entire range of H system cameras.

Unique Hasselblad Colors
The new Hasselblad Natural Color Solution (HNCS) enables you to produce outstanding and reliable out-of-the-box colors, with skin tones, specific product colors and other difficult tones reproduced easily and effectively.

Instant Approval Architecture
Hasselblad has created Instant Approval Architecture (IA), an enhanced set of feedback tools, designed to liberate the photographer to focus on the shoot rather than the selection process. IA triggers audible and visual signals for each image captured, notifying the photographer immediately of its classification status. The information is recorded both in the file and in the file name, providing a quick and easy way to classify and select images, in the field or back home.

GPS recording accessory
Hasselblad's Global Image Locator (GIL) is an accessory for any H-based Hasselblad digital capture product. Using the GIL device all images captured outdoors are tagged with GPS coordinates, time and altitude. This data is key to a number of future applications involving image archiving and retrieval. One example is the direct mapping of images within the coming Phocus software to Google Earth.

Three modes of operation and storage
The Hasselblad H3DI-39MS offers a choice of storage devices: portable CF cards, the flexible ImageBank-II or a computer hard drive. With these three operating and storage options, you are able to select a mode to suit the nature of the work in hand, whether in the studio or on location.

FlexColor workflow for the professional photographer
FlexColor offers an image processing workflow that gives the highest degree of control in tethered operation, with tools like overlay masking to help bring productivity to advanced set composition. FlexColor allows the photographer to flexibly manipulate image attributes without disturbing the basic raw file. FlexColor runs natively on both Macintosh and Windows computers.

Free upgrade to the world's most advanced image processing software!
Over the years, the image processing engine in Hasselblads FlexColor software has evolved into a powerful raw converter. The upcoming release of Phocus by Hasselblad adds an entirely new processing engine - featuring a range of new techniques and features and the power to support the latest Hasselblad camera developments and to enable groundbreaking new levels of image quality. Check on www.hasselblad.com for exact release dates.

Single Shot
The key to the single shot quality from a CCD sensor is due to the use of a Bayer Mosaic filter. This is a specific layout that is used in conjunction with software to interpret the colour data from the sensor. A single-shot system delivers one colour per pixel, and the remaining two channels must be estimated and calculated using a bestguess strategy. This is done in Hasselblad cameras by using algorithms that optimize colour rendition and sharpness without disturbing the perception of the human eye by theﾠ artefacts always present in raw single shot captures.

Multi Shot
High precision piezo motors control movements of the sensor in one pixel increments. By combining four shots, each offset by one pixel, the true colours, Red, Green and Blue of each point are obtained. The result is full colour information from the sensor with no artefacts like moir￩, common with single shot capture.

Ultimate DSLR Advantage

• Integrated 22, 31 and 39 Mpix capture units with 3" display
• Ultra-Focus: integral optimization of digital lens performance
• Hasselblad Natural Color Solution
• Integrated CCD cooling sink for lower noise
• Direct ISO/WB control
• Thumbwheel control of digital menus
• GPS accessory option
  

• Market's most versatile lens program
• Choice of eye-level or waist-level viewfinders
• Field FW upgrade of H3D camera
• Choice of media: CF card - Image Bank II
• Easy sensor cleaning
• View camera option
• Un-tethered and tethered operation
• Hasselblad 3FR raw - or DNG export