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Hasselblad face detect previews.
- Thread starter jduncan
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Indeed! Can't wait to update and check out both new features!
Sorry, but I feel compelled to ask: does it recognize Soup's face?
The USB-C connection to my X2D feels pretty secure, the one on my aging MacBook, not so much. Tethering in the past hasn't been an issue for me (FWIW, I use a longer cable from TetherTools for tethering). There's someone who posts on the hasselbladdigital forum who sells a 3D-printed TetherTools-like gizmo that stabilizes the cable connection at the camera. I haven't tried it, but you can find it here.
John
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thovenmedia
Member
I use two cables successfully without any issues. IQ Wire (I bought this when I had the Phase One IQ4 150) and Oculus Link cable (this is a fiber optic cable) both cables are USB-C to USB-C.
PapaJoe
Active member
Me: My Hasselblad now has Face Detect Autofocus! Woohoo!
My wife: Your $8,000 camera is just getting Face Detection? Didn't your iPhone have that years ago?
Me: Yeah, but my Hasselblad is a REAL camera, not a smartphone.
My wife: Didn't your half as expensive Sony REAL camera have that years ago?
Me: Yeah, but my Hasselblad is 100 megapixels.
My wife: Doesn't your less expensive 100 megapixel REAL Fuji camera have Face and Eye Detection?
Me: Yeah, but...
My wife: When you're in a hole, stop digging!!
My wife: Your $8,000 camera is just getting Face Detection? Didn't your iPhone have that years ago?
Me: Yeah, but my Hasselblad is a REAL camera, not a smartphone.
My wife: Didn't your half as expensive Sony REAL camera have that years ago?
Me: Yeah, but my Hasselblad is 100 megapixels.
My wife: Doesn't your less expensive 100 megapixel REAL Fuji camera have Face and Eye Detection?
Me: Yeah, but...
My wife: When you're in a hole, stop digging!!
Dang this is timely HB....my camera needs for the moment have somewhat changed, and I need face-detect AF.
Had been holding off on upgrading the X1D to the X2D and was considering the GFX100II, partially for this reason. May need to look at the X2D again.
So those of you that have upgraded the body firmware, the face-detect AF works like it should? any issues you've noticed?
Had been holding off on upgrading the X1D to the X2D and was considering the GFX100II, partially for this reason. May need to look at the X2D again.
So those of you that have upgraded the body firmware, the face-detect AF works like it should? any issues you've noticed?
TechTalk
Well-known member
Thank you for your post and bringing attention to the quality differences in USB-C cables. You can find a lot of variation in quality and capabilities among them. USB-C cables may contain a good deal of power and processing circuitry hidden inside each connector — or in some USB-C cables very little.
I've seen a number of online posts in various places from people who have had tethering issues using USB-C cables with high-resolution cameras who have reported that switching to an IQwire tether cable solved their problems. They are not inexpensive, but they are well designed and built for transmitting a lot of data at high speed.
This 20 minute video may explain why it's worth seeking out the right cables, what's inside, and how they differ. It's 20 minutes of viewing which could save a lot of time in the future troubleshooting problems caused by cables which aren't up to the task. Looking inside different USB-C cables with an industrial CT scanner is quite interesting, at least for me.
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f6cvalkyrie
Well-known member
Matt, just wait for the X3(4, 5?)D that will have eye detection ... that should work on Soup !!!
TechTalk
Well-known member
or perhaps sooner thru another X2D firmware update.
Eye detection is one thing, but Matt has demonstrated he has attitude detection for Soup — which is even more important!
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Photon42
Well-known member
In case someone has a setup like me and uses MF with back button focus - and does not read the release notes: you need to have AF/MF switched to AF to enable face detection. Just hitting the focus button does not work and you also cannot select it. Did not check anything else yet but face detection seems to work ok for a X2D camera.
MGrayson
Subscriber and Workshop Member
I was surprised by this as well, but I can't remember how it worked on the Fuji GFX. I've always used back-button AF, but I'm not sure that Hassy's choice is wrong.
One thing that keeps me on manual focus is that focus peaking is only available there. Even with AF, I often need to magnify and check critical focus manually. Unfortunately, it's on all the time, and it makes composition difficult if the entire landscape is lit up with magenta. A button or screen mode to activate it (as the Leica S has) would be helpful.
Soup is giving me the "What do you mean it doesn't recognize my face? I'm right here!" look. (It works on me, so the system clearly has no taste.)
Very sad.
Matt
Clearly, the system does not know how dangerous is to piss-off a cat either.
Best regards,
Photon42
Well-known member
I did some tests with the X2D firmware 3.1 (where was 3.0 btw ..?), latest Phocus and some Tether Tool cable. That cable has a flag on it reading "data transfer only". The camera however, not being able to read printed flags on cables, seemingly did not know that and still charges fine with that very cable.
Data transfer works flawlessly with a MBP 16" late 2021 (M1 something). I tried live view and focus (Phocus?) stacking. Worked very well.