Hasselblad's new 907X CFV 100C camera has plenty to complain about. It's expensive, it's slow and sometimes awkward to use. And it lacks various modern camera features like in-body stabilization or any kind of ability to shoot video.
Yet somehow I find it to be the most creatively inspiring camera I may have ever used in my many years as a professional photographer, and it's the camera I'd most want to buy if I could justify its price tag. The camera body itself comes in at $8,199 and I tested it with three main lenses: the XCD 55mm f2.5 V Lens ($3,699), the XCD 90mm f2.
5 V Lens ($4,299) and the brand-new, wide-angle XCD 25mm f2.5 V Lens ($3,699). The cost of my test kit came to the princely sum of $19,896.
Read more: Best Camera to Buy in 2024 Taken with the 55mm lens. Edited in Lightroom. That's a lot of cash for a camera that I found to have a number of quality-of-life drawbacks.
There's the slow and sometimes unpredictable autofocus and the awkward shutter button. The control ring is small and difficult to operate, requiring you to also hold down a shift button if you want to adjust exposure compensation. Then there's the fact that there's no mechanical curtain to protect the gigantic image sensor, meaning it's exposed to all the elements every time you change a lens.
Don't even think about switching lenses on a windy day on a sandy beach, unless you want to spend an hour removing dirt spots in Photoshop and then have your sensor properly cleaned. There's no viewfinder, s.
