Hasselblad launches the H3DII, retaining its full digital lens line and the choice of 22, 31 or 39 megapixel capture units using CCD image sensors up to 48×36, the new H3DII has a large, bright 3-inch display, which improves viewing of images and lowers power consumption. The new H3DII is available immediately with a retail price in Europe of 26.500€ for the H3DII-39, 21.500€ for the H3DII-31, and 17.900€ for the H3DII-22, excluding tax.

In the USA, pricing is $33,995 for the H3DII-39, $26,995 for the H3DII-31, and $24,995 for the H3DII-22…

Over here we will definitely be looking at over RM100,000 per unit.

In the H3DII, Hasselblad has addressed each of the system components above to provide an unprecedented level of image quality that outperforms any professional digital camera system on the market today, delivering outstanding pixel resolution, better colors, and improved detail rendering. When used with Hasselblad HC and HCD lenses, the camera system offers full digital lens correction through its DAC-Digital Auto Correction, which, in addition to chromatic aberration and distortion, can now correct for vignetting phenomena.

Image noise in the H3DII has been significantly reduced by improving the cooling of the sensor, achieved by attaching to the CCD a physical heatsink, which dissipates the heat generated to the entire camera body and considerably lowers the temperature of the system. As a component of Hasselblad’s revolutionary forthcoming image processing software, Phocus, the Hasselblad RAW Converter (HRC) also has an amazing anti-moiré capability which will eliminate moiré from any 3FR files, including even reprocessed images shot in 3FR on previous generations of Hasselblad cameras.

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Hasselblad H3DII