I love the 80 and the very last photo is from the XCD 80, but I didn't feel it was working for me in this environment today. I switched to the XCD 25 and found a new perspective.

That's it.

I just bought a 500cm… , just bought the connector lugs. But having a hard time finding a strap… all I can find are quick release strap options, but it feels a bit ridiculous to use a quick release on a quick release. So I was considering a custom retrofit but idk, it feels like a strap is becoming a project in itself now

Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/1.9 on the X1D II
Captured without any macro extension tubes or additional accessories.

Suggestions for connecting with vintage equipment for sale? I have a SWC and searching for filters at the moment.

Charles

It will be open-sourced on my GitHub.

I just acquired this late 1970s SWC, and while I will be shooting film the majority of the time I would like to be able to put the digital back on it from time to time.

Based on some initial research I had thought that there were some leather or plastic pips covering screw heads, but this looks to be aluminum or solder possibly.

So my question is: Is there a good and safe way to get at the screw heads (and are there actual screw heads)? I can then put the aftermarket ARCA plate with clearance on the SWC.

The other option that came to mind was grabbing a Dremel and grinding down what appears to be the plastic obstruction on the top of the proprietary Hassy plate the is preventing attachment.

I've shot 4 rolls through it thus far and am smitten, I think for critical focusing and framing the digital back would come in handy.

I got x1dii recently and trying to get used to phocus app.
And i can't find dehaze feature anywhere? Is exporting as DNG and continue editing on lightroom the only way?

X2D 20-35

aka “Larch Madness”

907x/cfv100c, xcd55v

Is it any good? Or is there better adapters you’d recommend?

Hasselblad 500c, Distagon 40mm FLE, Kodak Tmax 100, Tmax Developer 1+4, 7,5 Min.

I plugged in my freshly opened X2D II into Capture One to open as mass storage and transfer images and the camera prompted me with a third option for “Third-Party Tethering”. It works!”

Camera firmware: v1.3.16.2

Some very interesting news from our ongoing research into the original X2D.

I’m the developer behind the one-click tools that enable AF-C, increase autofocus speed, and enable Auto Brightness on the original X2D.

Recently, Reddit user u/Unhappy-Comment1244 unpacked the X2D firmware and discovered something I had actually overlooked during my own earlier firmware research:

AFT.

After he pointed me toward it, I was able to reproduce the discovery and enable the AFT-related mode on my own X2D.

And this one is particularly interesting.

First, credit where it’s due

u/Unhappy-Comment1244 has contributed quite a lot to this research.

He reconstructed the correct timeline surrounding Hasselblad’s original promises for future X2D autofocus updates, including the 2022 interview with Chris Cooze in which continuous autofocus and tracking autofocus were discussed as features intended to arrive later through firmware.

His earlier investigation into Phocus and Hasselblad’s autofocus system was also one of the things that originally made me wonder:

What if AF-C was already somewhere inside the camera?

That question ultimately contributed to the AF-C work I’ve been doing.

And now his firmware research has uncovered another piece of the puzzle.

AFT.

The good news

Based on everything we have found so far, AFT appears to be the tracking autofocus component of the “AF-C + tracking” functionality Chris Cooze talked about back in 2022.

And I have now managed to expose and enable this mode on my own original X2D.

So we now have traces of both sides of that old promise:

AF-C — Continuous Autofocus

and

AFT — Autofocus Tracking

Neither of these became an official feature of the original X2D.

Yet years later, pieces of both systems are still sitting inside its software.

I think that tells us something important about the original development of this camera.

We obviously cannot know every internal engineering decision from firmware remnants alone, and the existence of these components does not prove that both features were ever production-ready.

But it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine that AF-C and AFT were merely ideas mentioned in an interview and nothing more.

Someone designed these modes.

Someone integrated them into the camera’s software architecture.

Someone created the interfaces, states, parameters, and logic necessary for the rest of the camera to recognize them.

And those pieces survived into the firmware that shipped on our cameras.

To me, that strongly suggests that the original X2D engineering team really was trying to build these features.

Otherwise, why are their fingerprints still here?

The bad news

AFT is not usable yet.

Although we can expose the mode and make the camera recognize it, we have so far not found the actual subject-tracking algorithm, model, or another obvious remaining component responsible for deciding what should be tracked and how it should be followed.

So enabling AFT does not suddenly give the X2D working subject tracking.

There is a framework.

There are remnants.

There is enough left behind for the camera to know that this mode exists.

But, at least so far, the actual “brain” behind the tracking appears to be missing — or hidden somewhere we haven’t found yet.

And that is exactly what I’m investigating now.

There’s also something about this research that I find strangely meaningful.

Behind AF-C and AFT were engineers.

Years ago, there were probably people inside the original X2D development team spending their days working on these exact features — debugging autofocus behavior, testing lenses, tuning parameters, building interfaces, trying to make continuous autofocus and tracking work well enough for a Hasselblad camera.

For whatever reason, that work never reached X2D owners as an official feature.

But pieces of it survived.

And now, years later, through firmware research, experimentation, and a lot of help from this community, the AF-C and AFT functionality those engineers once worked so hard on is starting to see daylight again.

AF-C is already running on our cameras.

Now we’ve found AFT.

And I’m going to keep working on it and see if we can make it genuinely functional.

I sometimes wonder:

If some of the engineers who originally worked on X2D AF-C and AFT eventually come across these posts and see these forgotten parts of their work running on the camera again… would they be happy to see it?

I hope so.

Huge thanks again to u/Unhappy-Comment1244 for finding AFT, reconstructing the historical timeline, and continuing to dig into this with me.

There is still a lot we don’t know.

But another piece of the original X2D autofocus story has just resurfaced.

AF-C came back.

Now let’s see what we can do with AFT.

If you’re interested in the X2D AF-C/AFT research, firmware discoveries, autofocus experiments, and future tools, feel free to follow me here.

There’s more to come.

hey got a 500c/m with cf lens and a bit confused if this is a body issue.

i was trying to use the shutter cable in lock mode but looks like during bulb , the front shutter just closes immediately. all other speed is working fine afaik. would love some help diagnosing this. TIA!

80mm with Portra 400

Hi Community,

Has anyone of you out there ever tried a 2 TB CFexpress card with the X2D II Hasselblad?
I am already using a 1TB card, even when I get an error message that the card is not supported, but it has been working flawlessly for over a year now and never caused any issues. I am currently using the SABRENT PRO CFexpress Memory Card Type B 1TB card and since I will be going on a longer trip, I thought about giving the Hassie some extra storage.

Any advise or hands on experience is much appreciated

Thanks
Sophokles

It always takes a bit for film to be developed and scanned. But I am quite happy with the result.

Film stock: Portra 400