Hasselblad X2D NEW Focus Bracketing Firmware 2

This is my comprehensive tutorial on focus stacking with the new focus bracketing feature of the Hasselblad X2D 100c with Firmware 2.0.0. I explain all new settings you need to know and and provide live demonstrations for different parameters in the menu like “Step Size” and “Sequence”. I also provide lots of background information and tips & tricks and, of course, also do a live shooting to show how to best use this new feature. The software I am using for focus stacking is Helicon Focus and the lens I am using for this video is the Hasselblad XCD 3.5/120 Macro.

Content:
00:00 Introduction: Firmware 2.0.0 for the Hasselblad X2D 100c
02:23 Drive Mode is the right place for Focus Bracketing
02:57 Explaining all Focus Bracketing settings in the menu
05:38 Camera and lens settings for the live demonstrations
06:02 Live demo on “Step Size”: “Extra Small” vs “Extra Large”
09:05 Live demo on “Sequence”: “Towards Infinity” vs “Towards Near Limit”
12:09 Live demo on “Sequence”: “Symmetric”
13:52 Need to know information on Focus Bracketing
15:10 Shallow Depth-of-Field vs (stacked) wide Depth-of-Field example
16:08 Playing with variations of “Number of Frames” for a 3D-look
16:36 Some tips & tricks for Hasselblad X2D Focus Bracketing
17:51 Focus Bracketing and Depth-of-Field
20:24 “Step Size” and Circle of Confusion (wrong numbers corrected)
22:11 Hot pixels in Focus Bracketing and how to remove them
25:50 Focus Bracketing and Focus Stacking live demonstration

Videos on my channel which I mentioned in this video:

NEW Hasselblad X2D Long Exposures at NIGHT:

Hasselblad X1D(II) vs Leica SL(2): Field of View, Depth of Field, Exposure and Equivalence:

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[stuartfeen]

Mathphotographer is the proper name for the most amazingly technically competent, observant, instructive, interesting, and easily understood camera and lens interpreter. And on top of all of that, an excellent photographer.

[RayLombardi]

Your channel is THE best one in the business! Your attention to detail, the amazing way you explain the subject at hand and how you show it are second to none. Very well done! Cheers.

[uabpsab]

Pedagogicly done, thorough with good illustrations! The editing must have taken a long time. I appreciate all your hard work, thanks a lot!

[TheCountDC]

Excellent as always !
I'm deeply impressed with your punctuality and with the way your explanations and demonstrations make every complicated issue so simple to understand.
Thank you very much for your efforts ❤

[jean-claudemuller]

Hello and thank you for your comprehensive tutorial

@11:00
XCD lenses don't have a hard stop exactly at infinity
That's why for landscapes you have to start the sequence from infinity toward near, and focus at infinity before starting.

Not proceeding like this can let the exact infinity sharpness fall between two frames.

That's what I experimented

[derrickdu]

math, camera manufacturers should be paying you for these videos! Outstanding. Hasselblad should add the Focus stacking in their Phocus software.

[EricGibaud]

great video. Exposure Delay is good to give time for a flash unit to recycle

[LucyS]

Amazing what can be done these days! Well explained Math! Hasselblad is my dream camera :) Thank you so much!

[perrysmithphotography]

Thanks for another information packed tutorial video presentation...Without a doubt whenever I've got an issue or just seeking a deeper dive into a subject area with the X2D 100C I search your video(s) first for the answers...Thanks again!

[winniduesseldorf]

Thank you for this demonstration - This 602 stacked image is from another universe ...
(or the moon, Hasselblad excellently knows)

[simeongreenstein]

Outstanding. Prof. Math: you are the best!🖖

[quirinwick]

Like always a great video! Perfectly explained, thanx a lot!!

[PeterAKnipp]

Amazingly insightful! Thank you for the educational tool! 🙏🏻

[royprasad]

A lot of valuable information here, thank you. I have a quick question: Instead of using the leaf shutter in an XCD lens, why not use the ES in the X2D camera? Can that be done to have any wait time for shutter vibrations to die down? Would that not make the whole focus-stacking shoot much faster, and also, save wear and tear on a leaf-shutter lens? Perhaps also reduce heating of the sensor and hot pixels?

Kind regards,
Roy

[changez]

Your videos are so good - I watched the whole video and I dont even own this camera! Hoping this focus bracketing functionality can be brought to the Leica Q3 in a future update

[kenmonahan]

Thank you for another excellent video! Best wishes for 2024. Ken.

[GillesQuennevilleGQ]

You are the best. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.

[petermendelson]

Thank you! Very helpful. Question: how often do you use focus stacking for landscape images, if at all? Also, why wouldn't one want to use "Symmetric" to make 100% sure the main subject is in focus vs just Towards Infinity? Finally, on a slightly different topic, would love to see a video on using Phocus just to do very basic edits and then export to Lightroom or C1 - I avoid Phocus due to the difficulty of use and slowness. Thanks!

[abdallahsfeir]

Excellent presentation, very helpful.
One thing I wonder, why did you not use electronic shutter since the image is stable, I believe this will save on the wear and tear of the blade shutter, and it also uses less power and consequently less heat!

[patrickmolloy]

excellent demo and very clear. thank you!