This $6,400 camera system works with gear from 60 years ago
The Hasselblad 970X 50C is actually made up of three parts: a back, a body, and a lens. (Hasselblad/)Modern digital cameras typically have a fixed digital sensor inside to capture light. Medium format systems, like Hasselblad and Phase One, however, work a little differently. They employ digital “backs,” which contain a sensor and attach to a camera body with interchangeable lenses. This practice goes back to the film days—it allowed shooters to swap backs on the fly and switch between different film speeds or between color and black-and-white film. Hasselblad’s cameras have gained iconic status throughout the decades—they’re the cameras that went on the first moon walk, after all. But, those Hasselblad V cameras are boxy and rather bulky. Now, the company has released a new modular system that pairs the CFV II 50C medium format back—the sensor is larger than the typical “full frame” chips found in pro DSLRs—with a...