Hasselblad H4D200MS - Manual

7 Shutter release buttonFront scroll wheel Grip buttons: Flash, AF, ISO/WB, MENU, Battery check, Profile Camera strap lug Rear scroll wheel Focus Assist illuminator Mirror Up button Remote release port Stop Down button Battery grip True Focus button Card format button AE-L button button Camera strap...

8 Note that some of the buttons are modal and so have multiple functions according to the setting be- ing made. 1 Shutter release button This button has half-press and full-press positions. By pressing half-way (or softly) the camera, auto focus function and exposure meter can be activated. By press...

9 Note that some of the buttons can be re-assigned to another function. There are three control buttons on the rear of the grip. 1 True Focus button At default setting, activates True Focus (see separate section for description) but also acts as a Zoom-in button when browsing or Selector button when...

1 0 SENSOR UNIT 1 MENU / (EXIT) button Opens and closes the menu system. Also used for various other tasks (EXIT button, for example) as you issue commands navigating the menu system. 2 P1 button Assignable button to access a specific function. Setting is made via Cus-tom Options on sensor unit or i...

11 1 Hot shoe Connection for automatic flash unit (with SCA 3902 adapter) or for wireless flash connection. 2 Rubber eye cup Can be exchanged for another model. 3 Eyesight adjustment wheel The personal eyesight adjustment facility has a diop-ter range of -5 to +3.5, to suit most users. 4 Exposure co...

12 VIEWFINDER INFORMATION • Metering method • Aperture setting • Shutter speed • Exposure method • Capture counter • Exposure compensation • Focus assist • Warning triangle • Flash warning • Spirit level DISPLAY INFORMATION − OVERVIEW •  ISO•  White Balance•  IAA rating•  Storage medium Metering met...

13 When shooting, the sensor unit can display the information most often re-quired for a quick settings check. The unit’s buttons, grip scroll wheels and camera buttons are used to navigate the main menu and change settings. The display can show all saved cap-tures on a CF card for browsing and enla...

14 Typical  camera  grip  display  when  changing  settings. TYPICAL GRIP DISPLAY GRIP DISPLAY − OVERVIEW Focus setting (Manual setting) White balance (Daylight) Shutter speed setting (1/125s) ISO setting (200 ISO) Capture counter Battery symbols Metering method indication (Centre weighted) Drive co...

15 Typical viewfinder display. Note the LEDs will only be visible when activated (by the camera or a setting). Standard settings SOME EXAMPLES OF VARIOUS VIEWFINDER DISPLAYS Flash LED Exposure method indication (‘aperture priority’ mode) Aperture setting (f/5.6) Warning triangle LED Exposure compens...

16 SHORTCUT ACCESS TO BUTTON SETTING SCREENS 1) Press the MENU button fol- lowed by the button you want to reassign (True Focus, AE-L, M.UP or Stop Down). This directly accesses the par-ticular button you chose at the Custom options level in the menu. 2) Rotate the REAR scroll wheel to select the fu...

17 The Camera Configuration tool in Phocus offers a very thorough and secure way of creating comprehensive profiles for the H5D. There are three windows – Controls , Exposure and General – that present virtually all parameters to enable total control at the press of a button. This means that separat...

1 8 Some buttons access shortcuts if used in different ways or contexts. 1 Menu button – P1 / P2 setting option access Press MENU on sensor unit and then P1 or P2 to access the relevant setting options directly for that particular button. After making any changes, press EXIT ( Menu button ) or the s...

19 Photo: Ken Hermann © / Hasselblad Masters GENERAL

2 0   CARRYING STRAP The carrying strap is attached by firstly withdrawing the safety collar. The hook is then freed and can be attached to the strap lug. Slide back the safety collar to ensure the hook remains in the locked position between the small protruding lugs. The collar is purposely a tig...

2 1   CHARGING THE BATTERY With the battery removed from the camera, insert the jack plug from the battery charger into the socket on the battery grip. Insert the battery charger into a standard (100–240V~ /50–60 Hz) domestic socket. During the charging procedure, the lamp on the charger signifies...

2 2   BATTERY LIFE Battery life is dependent on a number of variable factors and therefore can-not be exactly predicted. If the cam-era is left in the active state instead of Display Off or Sleep modes for long periods, for example, then the battery will become exhausted much faster. A low camera ...

2 3   POWER MODES The H5D can be set at three active modes − ON , Display Off and Sleep . In these active modes, battery consumption is least in Sleep mode and most in ON mode. Both the grip and the sensor unit displays are dimmed accordingly. How-ever, after a set number of minutes of complete in...

2 5   INSERTING A CF CARD 1. Open the CF card slot cover on the sensor unit by insert- ing a thumb in the recess and then sliding it to the left. 2. Behind the cover, you will see a slot for the card (A) and a release button (B) below the slot. 3. Hold the compact-flash card so that the connector ...

2 6   FORMATTING CARDS The camera is only able to read and write to storage media that have been formatted correctly. New cards sometimes have no formatting, or you might want to convert a card that is currently using a format that the camera cannot read. In either case, you must reformat a CF car...

2 7   SENSOR UNIT – INTRODUCTION The captured image is temporarily stored internally on a CF card in the sensor unit or onto a computer hard disk when tethered using Phocus. True to the modular design, the sen-sor unit can be removed and attached to a large format / view camera (see later section ...

2 8 N o t e If you still see spots on your shots after you have cleaned the outside of the infrared filter, then you may have dust either on the inside of the IR filter or on the sensor itself. However, never attempt to remove the glass filter – you will probably ruin the sensor if you do so! If dus...

2 9   HASSELBLAD CAPTURE FILES, PHOCUS & ADOBE/APPLE SOFTWARE WORKFLOWS The H5D can capture files and store them as Hasselblad RAW format files or Hasselblad RAW + JPEG formats simultaneously. Hasselblad RAW files are initially stored in the 3FR format which is a proprietary Hasselblad format ...

3 0 Phocus is the capture processing and file manage- ment application aimed primarily at Hasselblad 3F file handling. Phocus Mobile offers remote viewing and control when shooting tethered while Phocus Quick offers a very rapid and simplified file process- ing capability. Phocus allows the extracti...

3 3   STOP DOWN / DEPTH-OF-FIELD PREVIEW A visual depth-of-field preview can be made by depressing the STOP DOWN but- ton while viewing the image in the viewfinder. Depth-of-field can be calculated as follows: 1. Focus the lens as required.2. Make an exposure reading (auto or manual) and note the ...

3 4 N o t e Some lenses have extra characteristics that require further explanation. For example, the autofocus range on the HC 4/120 Macro lens can be limited by a specific setting on the camera allowing for near range, far range or full range. This only appears on the grip display together with th...

3 5   MANUAL FOCUS There is both a Manual focus mode setting and a manual override capability. Manual focus is a specific setting that you actively make, whereas manual over- ride is always available as a temporary override of an autofocus setting. In Manual focus mode, focusing is carried out by ...

3 6   SINGLE SHOT At Single Shot setting ( AF S ), the shutter release will be blocked until the camera finds the optimum focus setting. This ensures that no captures can be made that are not finely focused. However, this delay will normally be only a fraction of a second in good lighting conditio...

3 7   TRUE FOCUS AND ABSOLUTE POSITION LOCK The obvious situation that would most benefit from using True Focus would be a fashion shoot with a fairly wide angle lens at a large aperture setting and where the central area of the image is clothing while retaining focus on the model's face. Ideally,...

3 9 1. Press MENU button on grip and select Settings or press MENU twice. 2. Select Custom Options and select #31 (True Focus in AF-S) with the Front scroll wheel . Select ON with the Rear front scroll wheel . Save . 3. Aim camera at important area in subject and half-press the shutter release butto...

4 0 ACTIVATED BY TRUE FOCUS BUTTON – AUTOFOCUS DEACTIVATED In this mode the True Focus function is activated by pressing the True Focus button. Normal autofocus is de-activated, therefore, pressing the shutter release button will not reset the focus. Useful when many shots are required with the same...

41 Photo: Joe Felzman © / Hasselblad Masters EXPOSURE CONTROL

4 2   ISO & WHITE BALANCE ON GRIP – presets and manual 1. Press ISO/WB . 2. Turn the FRONT scroll wheel to select ISO setting. 3. Turn the REAR scroll wheel to select WB ( Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Flash, Fluorescent and Tungsten) . 4. To make a Manual White Balance setting (not a White balance...

4 3   EXPOSURE SETTING MODES Exposure can be controlled either manually or by using one of four automatic modes. These have the following designa-tions on the grip display: M – Manual A – Aperture (priority)S – Shutter (priority)P – ProgramPv – Program variable In each mode you can see both the ap...

4 4   AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE – A, S, P, PV Automatic exposure provides a choice of two ways of con-trolling shutter speed and aperture settings semi-auto-matically and two ways fully automatically: Aperture priority: A - The aperture is manually chosen by you by turning the front scroll wheel, and the...

4 5   AE- L BUTTON This button has two main functions that can be incorporat-ed in various working methods involving exposure locking. It also has an extra function for the flash measure capability (see AE-L section under Flash ). The AE-L button can: a) lock an EV setting in manual and automatic ...

4 6   EXPOSURE COMPENSATION / QUICK ADJUST The exposure compensation function, for both manual and automatic modes can be set from -5 to +5 EV, in 1/3, 1 or 1/2 EV increments (Custom Option #3) and is visible above the scale in the viewfinder and as a ± symbol on the grip display. The quickest way...

4 7 Photo: Tom D. Jones © / Hasselblad Masters NAVIGATING THE MENUS

4 8 DELETE For single or multiple dele- tion of images. STORAGE SETTINGS BASIC DESCRIPTION OF SENSOR UNIT MENU ITEMS By using the buttons on the control panel and the scroll wheels on the grip you can navigate down through the various levels in the menu. Below is an overview of the setting options a...

4 9   OVERVIEW OF NAVIGATING MENU AND SETTINGS ON SENSOR UNIT. Navigating the menu and accessing the settings on the sensor unit are achieved by pressing the appropriate buttons surround-ing the display. Note that some of the buttons are modal and so have dual functions which is indicated by the d...

5 0   OVERVIEW OF NAVIGATING MENU AND SETTINGS ON GRIP Navigating the menu and accessing the settings on the grip is achieved by pressing the buttons surrounding the display and turning the scroll wheels. Note that some of the buttons are modal and so have several functions which is indicated by t...

5 2   PREVIEW MODES Use the Display button to cycle through the available pre- view modes which are: • Standard preview: Shows a preview image surrounded by a display of a few important settings. Note that the information covers some of the image. Go to Full–screen mode to see whole image. • Histo...

5 3   HISTOGRAM MODE The histogram provides a graph that indicates the total number of pixels at each brightness level, with brightness-es going from black on the left to white on the right. It is a valuable tool for evaluating captures. A well-exposed shot usually has a full range of levels, whil...

5 4 SENSOR UNIT SETTINGS Photo: Denis Rouvre © / Hasselblad Masters

5 5 The menu is structured in a manner similar to very many digitally controlled personal devices and should be familiar to most. Once the menu is accessed navigation, selection and confirmation are made by the various buttons beneath the display, the scroll wheels on the grip as well as the True Fo...

5 6 1. Press MENU . 2. Navigate to ISO (use the Rear scroll wheel or the Navigator ). 3. Press the True Focus ( ) or AE-L ( ) buttons – (or the ZOOM button) – to step through the available settings. 4. Save the chosen selection by pressing EXIT ( MENU button).   WHITE BALANCE SETTING ON SENSOR UNI...

5 7 There are two ways to make manual white/grey balance set-tings using a ‘Grey card’ or ‘Qp card’. If colour accuracy is not critical, you can use any neutrally coloured area or surface that you judge to be close to a mid-grey value (concrete, overcast sky, or even white paper, for example). It wo...

5 8 STORAGE N o t e You will always be asked to confirm each delete operation.   FORMAT The camera is only able to read and write to storage media that have been format-ted. New cards sometimes have no formatting, or you might want to convert a card that is currently using a format that the camera...

5 9 SETTINGS   SOUND SENSOR UNIT MENU > SETTINGS > USER INTERFACE > SOUND The H5D offers audio feedback to relay information. This menu item has Volume (choose between High, Low and Off ), Key Click (choose between On and Off ) and Exposure Warning (choose between On and Off ). 1. Press M...

6 0   DISPLAY SENSOR UNIT MENU > SETTINGS > USER INTERFACE > DISPLAY This setting controls the level of Contrast and Brightness (both on a scale of 1-10 ) on the display. Usually, you should leave this set to the default level of 5; however in some viewing environments and/or with some ty...

6 1   BUTTON P1 & P2, DISPLAY OFF, SLEEP, POWER OFF, IMAGE ORIENTATION, SHOW PREVIEW , Custom Options allows the setting of various options, as listed here. The setting procedure is the same for these features: 1. Press MENU . 2. Navigate to Settings (use the Rear scroll wheel or the Navigator...

6 2 • Image Orientation SENSOR UNIT MENU > SETTINGS > CUSTOM OPTIONS > IMAGE ORIENTATION Sets the viewing orientation of captures when they appear in Phocus. In or-der to avoid unintentional orientation changes when the camera is pointing straight up or down, for example, the orientation se...

6 3 SETTINGS > ABOUT   ABOUT SENSOR UNIT MENU > SETTINGS > ABOUT The About box will tell you which firmware version is pres-ent so you can see if you have the latest (which can be down-loaded from the Hasselblad website). The serial number is also displayed in case Hasselblad Support need...

6 4   SPIRIT LEVEL The integrated electronic spirit level provides a rapid and accurate way of ensuring the camera is either horizontally neutral in alignment (level) and/or vertically neutral in align-ment (plumb). It uses two methods that are fully visible on the sensor unit display and partly v...

6 5 Photo: Frank Meyl © / Hasselblad Masters GRIP MENU SETTINGS

6 7   SETTINGS Apart from the more regularly used ISO/WB, AF, Flash but-tons and features accessible on the grip there are a number of other features available. These provide the integral finess-es that make the H5D a powerful and sophisticated tool to satisfy a variety of professional demands. Th...

6 8 Mirror sequence highlighted. ‘Delay first, then mirror raised’ chosen as option. ‘Delay’ highlighted with drop shadow. 10 seconds chosen. SELF TIMER SETTING 1) Press MENU on grip. 2) Turn Front scroll wheel until Self Timer appears. 3) Press ENTER . 4) Turn Front scroll wheel to access the optio...

6 9 The bracketing function provides an automatic series of cap-tures; one at the standard exposure setting (Manual or Auto) and the others with pre-determined deviations in EV from the standard exposure. This is particularly useful for images con-taining a very wide tonal range, for example. Firstl...

7 0 – continued 7) In turn the Rearscroll wheel to choose the amount of EV variation required: 3, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/3 EV. 8) Press SAVE . 9) Press ENTER again from the Bracketing screen to activate the function. Press On . Note that this now reads Off and the line of text at the bottom of the screen read...

7 1 2 frames – 255 frames 1 second − 1 hour INTERVAL By using the interval setting, you can allow the camera to take a series of captures automatically over a set period. This is often required for time and motion studies, security surveil- lance, nature study, etc. The exposure and focus settings (...

7 2 SETTINGS > CUSTOM OPTIONS CUSTOM OPTIONS From the Settings screen you can access four main sub-set- tings: Custom options , Image info, Date & Time and System status by turning the front scroll wheel. From each of these CUSTOM OPTIONS (ON GRIP) 1) Press MENU on grip. 2) Turn the Front scr...

74 N o t e If using flash/strobe as the main light source and 1/800s shutter speed, re-member to turn off the True Exposure option. Magazine exposure lock 10 • Yes • No Allows you to release the lens and auxiliary shutter in camera body without a sensor unitattached. Yes blocks the lens shutter and ...

7 5 Rear wheel quick adjust 17 • Yes • No Allows rear scroll wheel to make a rapid EV adjustment (or EV compen-sation) in auto-exposure mode. Yes turns the setting on. By turning the rear scroll wheel, the adjustment is made and appears on both displays as a ± symbol between the shutter speed and ap...

76 Aperture control in Manual 26 • Front wheel • Rear wheel Selects which scroll wheel changes the aperture setting when in Manual exposure mode. Front wheel selects the front scroll wheel to change the aperture setting. Rear wheel selects the rear scroll wheel to change the aperture setting. Low fl...

7 7 In Image info you can compose your own combination of letters, words, symbols, etc to be included in the metadata. The same procedure is also used to change a Profile name. SETTINGS > IMAGE INFO IMAGE INFO SETTING 1) Press MENU . 2) Turn the Front scroll wheel until Settings appears. 3) Press...

7 8 IMAGE INFO SETTING Here is an example of how to change existing text (in this case the word ‘Text’ to a copyright symbol plus a photogra-pher’s name -’Jens Karlsson’). See previous section 4.2 Im- age info for procedure description. 1) Start by accessing the Image info screen. On the text row to...

7 9 Check component usage and general servicing information as follows: SYSTEM STATUS DISCLOSURE 1) Press MENU on grip. 2) Turn the Front scroll wheel until Settings appears. 3) Press ENTER . 4) Turn the Front scroll wheel to access System Status . 5) Press ENTER . 6) The display now shows a list of...

8 0   DRIVE There are two drive modes: Single and Continuous . In Single mode, a capture is made when the shutter release button is pressed and the camera is made ready for the next capture. To make the next capture however, you must first release the shutter release button and then press again. S...

8 1 PROFILES Photo: Vicente Ansola © / Hasselblad Masters

8 2 The profiles feature allows rapid access to pre-determined combinations of settings that increase the speed and secu-rity of workflow. One example might be in a social situation where there might be a need for formal outdoor portraiture followed by informal indoor handheld flash-assisted wide-an...

8 3   USING PROFILES 1) From the main screen, click PROFILES on the grip and the profile screen will appear. 2) Use the scroll bar to go through the list and highlight the desired profile. 3) Press Load ( AF button). The camera is now set according to all the parameters stored according to the nam...

8 5 N o t e As with all strobe/studio flash use, very particular attention should be taken to ensure correct connections and general handling practice. Potential dangers might increase when cameras are also connected to electronic peripherals (computers, lighting backs, etc) and should diminish when...

8 6   INTEGRAL FLASH The integral flash unit features the following specifications: Guide no. 12 Coverage 56º horizontal, 44º vertical Maximum light fall-off at side centres - 1EV (50%)Color temperature (full flash) 5,000 – 5,600º K To raise the flash unit into its operative position, slide the fl...

8 7   SEPARATE FLASH UNIT CONNECTION Separate flash units can be electrically connected either by way of the hot shoe accessory holder (see previous warn-ings) on the top of the viewfinder or via a cord to the PC con-nection port on the left hand side of the camera body. Slave unit switches/ trans...

8 8 ACCESSORIES Photo: Milosz Wozaczynski © / Hasselblad Masters

8 9 CONNECTIVITY DIAGRAM Optional V system lenses Tilt/Shift Lenses Camera body HVM waist-level viewfinder HV 90x / HVD 90x viewfinders Optional viewfinders H5D Camera All HC/HCD lenses, including extension tubes and converter CF lens adapter HTS 1.5. For use with HCD28, HC35, HC50, HC80 and HC100 (...

9 0 HCD 4/28mm HCD 4.8/24mm HC 3.5/35mm HC 2.8/80mm HC 2.2/100mm HC 3.2/150mm HC 4/210mm HC 3.5–4.5/50–110mm HCD 4.0–5.6/35–90mm HC 3.5/50-IImm HC 4.5/300mm HC Macro 4/120-IImm HC LENS RANGE Most V system C type lenses with  optional CF lens adapter

9 1 HVM waist level viewfinder (3053328) The HVM waist level viewfinder al-lows a comfortable lower viewing angle either for effect or where eye contact with the subject is desirable in portrait photo graphy, for example. Autofocus function of all lenses fully retained. Optimized for horizontal form...

9 2 HTS 1.5 (3043400) The HTS 1.5 is a shift and tilt adapt-er designed for the HCD28mm, HC35mm, HC50mm, HC80mm and the HC100mm lenses. It not only solves technical challenges but also provides exciting opportbackies for creative solutions. CF Adapter (3043500) The CF adapter allows virtually all le...

9 3 Multi-shot capability is available with the H5D-200MS and H5D-50MS models. Apart from regular 1-shot captures, the H5D-50MS also offers 4-shot captures while the H5D-200MS offers 4- or 6-shot captures. Multi-shot captures are made of the same scene with the sensor offset very slightly for each s...

9 4 APPENDIX Photo: Jon Lowenstein © / Hasselblad Masters

9 5 H5D-40 H5D-50 H5D-60 H5D-50MS H5D-200MS Sensor size 40 Mpix (5478 × 7304) 50 Mpixels (6132 × 8176) 60 Mpixels (6708 × 8956) 50 Mpixels (6132 × 8176) 50 Mpixels (6132 × 8176) Sensor dimensions 32.9 × 43.8 mm 36.7 × 49.1 mm 40.2 × 53.7 mm 36.7 × 49.1 mm 36.7 × 49.1 mm Pixel size 6.0 μm 6.0 μm 6.0 ...

9 6 H5D Camera Type Auto-focus, auto-exposure digital SLR camera with interchangeable viewfinders and lenses. Construction One piece stainless steel shell. Die-cast aluminium internal structure. Tripod sockets (1/4 and 3/8”) and quick coupling tripod plate for rapid mounting. Lenses Hasselblad HC/HC...

9 8 True Exposure is an HC/HCD lens function that allows the shutter speed to remain un-affected when stopping down. This effect is perhaps not so commonly understood as it is restricted specifically to integral lens shutters as opposed to focal plane shutters. When a lens is stopped down, the effec...

9 9 AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE – P & PV MODE LIGHT METERING METHOD SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION RECOMMENDED CF CARDS FOR H5D P Mode 8 Shutterspeed 1000 500 250 125 60 30 15 8 4 2 1s 2s 4s 8s 16s 32s 64s 2. 0 2. 8 4. 0 5. 6 11 16 22 32 45 64 90 1. 4 Aper tur e 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 1 EV 12...

1 0 0 The H5D is a very sophisticated camera that relies on much information being passed and processed to and from each modular back to produce the correct behavior. It is therefore essential that reasonable care is tak-en in attaching, detaching and storing the viewfinder, lenses, extension tubes,...

1 0 2 The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be con-strued as a commitment by Victor Hasselblad AB. The images in this manual were not taken with a Hasselblad H5D. They are used for illustrative purposes only and ar...