Lens Shade for XCD 45mm + X1D in Sri Lanka and India

[pflower]

Much to my annoyance I lost the lens shade to my XCD 45mm in the Kali Temple in Calcutta.

A replacement is pretty much £100 which I find somewhat excessive for what it is.  So I am thinking, at least for the moment, of buying a screw in replacement for about £7.  Can anyone with one of the Hasselblad originals  give me the length of the actual shade part?

Incidentally close to 4,000 exposures made over a month in Sri Lanka and Kolkata.  Annoying glitches in that at least 2 or 3 times a day the dials became completely unresponsive, but making an exposure cured that without the need for restarting.  All in all a great camera for general landscape and street work where rapid capture of motion not required.  I travelled with a MacBook Air which makes it difficult to assess the files but they appear (as expected) very good indeed.  Currently copying 650GB of files over to my main system.  It will take quite a while.

[Charles S]

Been to Calcutta and Sri-Lanka to shoot and loved it.
Please share the results with us after you crunched through the files

[hcubell]

Much to my annoyance I lost the lens shade to my XCD 45mm in the Kali Temple in Calcutta.

A replacement is pretty much £100 which I find somewhat excessive for what it is.  So I am thinking, at least for the moment, of buying a screw in replacement for about £7.  Can anyone with one of the Hasselblad originals  give me the length of the actual shade part?

Incidentally close to 4,000 exposures made over a month in Sri Lanka and Kolkata.  Annoying glitches in that at least 2 or 3 times a day the dials became completely unresponsive, but making an exposure cured that without the need for restarting.  All in all a great camera for general landscape and street work where rapid capture of motion not required.  I travelled with a MacBook Air which makes it difficult to assess the files but they appear (as expected) very good indeed.  Currently copying 650GB of files over to my main system.  It will take quite a while.

Did you have your control wheels replaced by Hasselblad?

[pflower]

Yes both wheels were replaced and what was described as a new integrated circuit board installed.  My 2 year warranty period is fast running out, so I was concerned that there might still be a hardware problem.  I was advised, on this trip, to reinstall the latest firmware.  In fact I hadn't installed 1.22 before leaving on the basis that 1.21 seemed to be working ok.  So I installed the new version which had some weird problems I hadn't observed before - a "white out" requiring a re-start and upon starting the EVF refused to function.  Re-setting solved the immediate problem.  So I re-installed the new firmware.  Things were better after that.

As I say I made some 4,000 exposures over the month.  The problems were annoying but not sufficiently frequent to invoke fury - a couple of times a day.  When on a tripod doing landscapes not really a problem, but when photographing a street scene knowing that your exposure is not going to work is annoying, but since I mostly shoot static scenes even that can be worked around.

I have now finally downloaded some 700GB of files to my main computer (an iMac 27 inch) and they do look really really good.  Possibly in 4k exposures I lost no more than 5 or 6 which I couldn't re-take after finding unresponsive dials.

I suspect that there are still glitches that are software based and that one has to live with or work around.  Mind you pretty much every electronic device I have and have ever had - cameras, phones, computers etc. - all need a "turn it off and turn it on again" therapy.  The X1D is no exception.

All in all I am very satisfied with the camera.  But at that price I do think it should work perfectly, but I am reconciled to the fact that nothing ever works "perfectly".   I took an A7RIII with me which has its own idiosyncrasies and at a very cursory view of the files on my iMac there is still something magical about the X1D images that makes the odd annoyance liveable with.

Did you have your control wheels replaced by Hasselblad?
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[hcubell]

My wheels were also replaced in December. This past weekend, I did some shooting and noticed the same, strange issues you just described. The control wheels stopped responding, the EVF wouldn't work, and I fired off a series of images that were totally overexposed, which I assume was because the control wheels wouldn't work. A couple of restarts solved the problems.
This was with Firmware 1.21. I installed 1.22 this morning because my XCD 135mm lens arrived, and you need 1.22 to operate X1D with the new lens. I will watch how things go. Fortunately, I am with you in that I have never really lost a photograph because of a freeze up. The freeze ups have been an irritating inconvenience that I accept as I love the files from the X1D and  the overall user experience. Nothing is perfect.

Yes both wheels were replaced and what was described as a new integrated circuit board installed.  My 2 year warranty period is fast running out, so I was concerned that there might still be a hardware problem.  I was advised, on this trip, to reinstall the latest firmware.  In fact I hadn't installed 1.22 before leaving on the basis that 1.21 seemed to be working ok.  So I installed the new version which had some weird problems I hadn't observed before - a "white out" requiring a re-start and upon starting the EVF refused to function.  Re-setting solved the immediate problem.  So I re-installed the new firmware.  Things were better after that.

As I say I made some 4,000 exposures over the month.  The problems were annoying but not sufficiently frequent to invoke fury - a couple of times a day.  When on a tripod doing landscapes not really a problem, but when photographing a street scene knowing that your exposure is not going to work is annoying, but since I mostly shoot static scenes even that can be worked around.

I have now finally downloaded some 700GB of files to my main computer (an iMac 27 inch) and they do look really really good.  Possibly in 4k exposures I lost no more than 5 or 6 which I couldn't re-take after finding unresponsive dials.

I suspect that there are still glitches that are software based and that one has to live with or work around.  Mind you pretty much every electronic device I have and have ever had - cameras, phones, computers etc. - all need a "turn it off and turn it on again" therapy.  The X1D is no exception.

All in all I am very satisfied with the camera.  But at that price I do think it should work perfectly, but I am reconciled to the fact that nothing ever works "perfectly".   I took an A7RIII with me which has its own idiosyncrasies and at a very cursory view of the files on my iMac there is still something magical about the X1D images that makes the odd annoyance liveable with.

Did you have your control wheels replaced by Hasselblad?

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[pflower]

The XCD 45 shade is 35mm deep and 89mm diameter.

I agree 100 quid for a shade is quite ridiculous. But, that's Hasselblad.

I see on BH they are selling for US$130. This does seem ridiculous.  So I bought on Amazon for £9 a screw in collapsable rubber shade.  As far as I can tell today it works perfectly well half extended and fully extended - fully extended it is a bit longer and a bit wider than the Hasselblad one.  In some ways the screw in version is better than the twist on and off version - sure it is not as elegant - but it won't come loose when jostled in a crowded market.  The only downside is that when putting on an ND filter system you have to unscrew it rather than just twist it off.  But I can live with that.