Help me spend my money :P h4d's an lenses

[TomSteele]

Hey everyone,

hope you are all well 

just about to step up to digital medium format mainly shot wildlife pro but am moving away from that now to deal with the needs of my commercial clients more aptly
will be for  a mix of things from promo shots for race teams to some indoor portraits and a few of race and road bikes on location. and the usual bread and butter bussiness portrait stuff and some self directed studio/location shots with people that I fancy pushing into a bit more.


Am looking at the hassy h4d-40 just trying to decide on which lens tossing up between the 100mm f2.2 which comes in at about £15,000  ish or the 40 + the 80mm for about £13,900.


Or whether to go for a h4d-31 and get a few more optics maybe a 35-90 to compliment the 80 that comes with it looking to spend a max of about 15 grand gbp at the mo unless stock market stuff picks up on my savings


Also if you were to pick 3 lenses say up to 8 -9 grand in value what would be your top picks? for further down the line

open to more suggestions to

mainly going to be for commercial work as my clients are after me stepping up in file size

one quick question what is the major differences between the 31 and the 40 apart from the obvious file sizes is the technology in the back older on the 31? anyone used both and how did you find them any observations

Many thanks in advance,

Tom Steele

[Dustbak]

I would definitely opt for the 40. Newer sensor with better performance at anything above base ISO. The ability to do 256seconds long exposures max is also appealing.

As far as lenses go I would get the 100mm for sure. That is the first lens I will grab. The second lens is the 35-90. If you are fit and want to save some bucks (so you can get the HCD28, don't forget bot the 40 as well as the 31 are cropped sensors) you can take the 50-110 too.

Top picks:

1) 100/2.2
2) 35-90 (but can be changed for the 50-110 too)

These are the lenses I use 80% (or more) of the time. I also use the following but would not dare to rate them in any order;

*) 150/3.2
*) 120/macro
*) 28/4.0

I use the H4D60 and CF39MS which are larger sensors than the 31 or the 40. In which case I would probably want a bit more wide-angle and less tele. In that case the 28 would move up for me somewhat and the 150 down. I dislike the 35.

[meonshore]

Tom,

If it helps you might want to consider my kit currently for sale on the board.

http://www.hasselbladdigitalforum.com/index.php/topic,2069.0.html

You could exchange the H2D-22 body immediately as part of the upgrade programme for the H4D-40 saving £2466 off the price, and have the 80/50-100/120 and a bunch of accessories under your £15k budget.

Do let me know
Mike.