Hasselblad X2D: Using My Nose to Scroll Around an Image
Related: Hasselblad, Hasselblad medium format, Hasselblad mirrorless, Hasselblad X2D 100C, medium format
re: Hasselblad X2D
My main computer locked me out today (an Apple bug), a two hour ordeal to get things back up. Then my iPhone died and I have to run to the Apple Store to see about that. And I have no heat in my house and won’t this winter, as that’s a $20K repair (furnace and ducts). Other than that, this day is going well!
I have tons of X2D shots to process. Fantastic image quality, but some confounding lens behaviors that make getting the best total sharpness challenging at times.
Nose as a user input device
Someone please tell me how I can scroll around a taken image with the Hasselblad X2D, without using frozen fingers on a touchscreen that I cannot see due to glare and/or presbyopia—I need to view via the EVF.
At least in magnified Live View there is the science fair design ethos of scrolling left/right or up/down using the front and rear dials. A breakthrough in ease of use... circa 1999. You do get used to it... like waiting at a DMV office.
But when reviewing a taken image, those two dials do not offer scrolling, at least not to my knowledge. I found no way to do it in the manual or in using the camera—did I miss something?
So—this is not a joke—in cold where my hands freeze up*, the only viable way to scroll around an image to check sharpness is—in total seriousness—my nose. Which frequently double-taps and takes me out of magnified inspection. Surely nose operation is the ultimate asinine camera design? Maybe large noses work better, not sure.
Yep, after 5 years of an obviously terrible design, the X2D designers declined to offer a multi-way controller knob/button as is found on virtually every other camera on the market (Sony, Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm).
It’s amazing how difficult the X2D makes a simple requirement hard. How could anyone in their right mind design a camera this way? Particularly after 5 years to make it right.
* Yes, I have and tried fingerless gloves as well as touchscreen gloves, neither works well and the touchscreen is crap in the cold with dry fingers anyway, often taking many taps to respond.
Hasselblad X2D 100C + Hasselblad XCD 21mm f/4 @ 18mm equiv (21mm)
ENV: White Mountains, altitude 10700 ft / 3261 m, 9°F / -12°C
RAW: LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, +10 Whites, +10 Clarity, diffraction mitigating sharpening
wind chill well below 0°F
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