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Hasselblad CFV Digital Back CONTINUED

"It should also be remembered that how friendly and helpful a dealer is often depends on how much money you spend in his/her shop."

Generally true for most things ... but not what I found to be true with the Hassey dealer I am using. I've sent one time CFV buyers to them, and they have been as responsive to their needs as mine. There are a number of very responsive dealers in the US as far as I know. I'm sure there are unresponsive ones also. I experienced one with my first Imacon back.

I do think that the whole high-tech industry is relatively poor at communication given how complex it can be, or how fast things tend to change.
 
Jurgen:
Nice little review, thanks.

Fantastic feature for hdr photography
Things like this, altough not 7 column news, is what makes a company apart from the rest. It seems they want to be a "photographers" company.
Do you know if this feature will work with a film back?
Thanks
Eduardo


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Jurgen quoted:
"On the left top front corner you still find a little wheel , where you can adjust for single shot and multi shot .
This multishot does not refer to multishot possibility of digital backs , but indicates , that you can doe successive shots , after you did a prerelease of the mirror . So between the shots , there is no mirror movement"
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Eduardo

All camera functions are independant from the back you use (film or digi)
Autobracketing is also a function , which will be implemented . But , please , this is all beta version talk . I admit , that the HDR possibility came into my mind immediately .

Jürgen
 
Jurgen:

Watch out some photo magazine will be looking to hire you to do product reviews!

Thanks for your first hand report!

Regards:

Gilbert
 
Hi,

just a short update to the time & date thing:

had my back yesterday for hours running by fire wire - it could not hold date & time over the night. Used it the hole day today - and i checked right now - it is already back to 2000 again.....

Yes, it annoys me that this thousands of EUROs piece is not able to keep the time more than a few minutes - but i guess not enough to send it to Denmark, be 3 weeks without back and have it serviced any kind. Other to the mentioned thing it works pretty good - so don't repair a working system ;) I keep it from now on like Marc already suggested: i set time and date prior to shooting and thats it.

Best regards Andy
 
A lot of useful information here! I decided to sign up when I got to the TOY battery posts ;)

I also have a problem with time & date thing. I tried to charge the battery by having the back
on for 12 hours. It did not help, the time & date would get reset to 2000 when I had the back
off over night. I then tried charging it for 24 hours, and it would actually keep the setting
when I had the back off for several hours. But, it did not last long, a few days later it would
not remember the setting over night. Hasselblad tells me that it has to be shipped overseas
to be replaced. I don't know if it's worth it, how long will the new clock battery last anyways?

At least, now I know that I'm not the only one...
 
How did you have the back on for 24 hours Robert? What clip-on camera battery were you using that lasted 24 hours? None of the clip-on power sources that I know of will continuously power the CFV for 24 hours, or even 12 hours IF the back is on and set to stay on.

I'm not sure, but I don't think hooking up the firewire to power the back from a PC charges the internal battery Andreas.

I think you have to use a freshly charged clip-on battery, turn on the back, set the time, then leave the CFV on for awhile ... or be shooting with it for awhile ... while NOT set to the power down mode.

My report: My CFV has not been used since sitting the clock 2 days ago and charging it fully using the clip on battery and leaving the camera on for about 2 hours ( I doubt it needs to be on even that long ).

My CFV internal clock is still correct to the exact minute.

I will report again in a few days. ( I am not turning on the CFV for any more time than it takes to check the time, then I turn it off immediately ).
 
I connected it with a firewire cable. I tried a clip on battery, but it would drain well before
12 hours, as you say. I did get some more life out of the clock battery after using the firewire
cable, but I did have a clip on battery in the camera as well while using the firewire cable.
Maybe it was the clip on battery that charged the clock battery doing so. I don't know.
 
I also seem to having some success with this "charge the internal battery" approach.

On Monday night, I attached a fully charged battery and switched on the CFV back. I used the "i" button to switch off the screen display, so as to lengthen the "on" time before the battery ran flat. I don't know how long the battery lasted because I went to sleep. It must have been a couple of hours or more.

But, forty-eight hours later, the CFV is stilling showing the right date and time.

The question remains: how long will the internal battery last? As an internal clocks uses only a tiny wattage, it should last months.

As I am an amateur photographer and therefore only use the 'blad sporadically, I will just have to check the clock from time to time to see if the internal battery charge is holding up.

Regards
Peter
 
That's what I'm trying to determine Peter. I put the CFV right next to my computer and will be checking it every day to see how long it can go without a re-charge.
 
I am trying to charge the TOY battery with the large clip on battery i have - the CFV is sitting next to me and is running the 3700 mAh battery down.

@Marc: it might really be that the clock bat is charged only by the clip on battery - it cam to my mind also. Thats what i would call a bit weird design, wouldn't it?

Just have to say that i already learned much by lurking around here and i do appreciate the combined effort of you all to shed some light to this time thing. Thank you!
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But anyhow - working with the back is plain fun for me. Its about pictures and so i fell free to add another one of the back. Hope it is ok...

Andy

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We should start new threads. This one begin to be unreadable. In this threat different topics should have born.
- Battery
- Why I return to films
and so.

CFV is not only 503CV field. Lot of CFV are put on 203 bodys.
 
Update: Sunday, Oct. 21, 5:42 AM EST, USA

CFV internal clock still accurate to the minute.

I did talk to my dealer about this, and he has had a few CFVs that needed to go back to replace the clock battery. So, it appears that some need to be fixed, and some do not.

He said to plug the camera in with the firewire and leave it for good awhile. He wasn't sure if the camera needed to be turned on. His suggestion was to try it off, and if that didn't work, then turn the camera back on, and leave it for awhile. I don't know if that would work with a laptop that doesn't supply power to the firewire ports.

I just used a fresh clip on battery and left it on until it was depleted. That seems to have worked.

I wonder if the battery needed to be conditioned? Meaning you needed to turn on the camera, set the time, and leave it on to charge the internal battery fully ... instead of powering up, setting the battery, and shutting the back off. If so, it would be nice if they told you that when you got the camera.
 
Hi Marc,

thanks for efforts! ;) I did have my unit run down the largest clip on battery i have (3700 mAh) but it lost the date & time setting after night again.....
So it seems that my unit would need service for that. But i am not to sure whether i like the idea of not having the back for a while....
I sent of an email to Hasselblad about that - but till today no answer.

Andy
 
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