One of my responsibilities as a video producer at Fotodiox is to demo new gear. It’s a valuable exercise because, along with creating demo images to promote our products, it helps me sharpen my photo and video skills.
I was visiting friends and family in Greenville, South Carolina last week, and I brought Fotodiox’s new Hasselblad V to EOS RhinoCam along to do some demo shooting. The RhinoCam shoots multiple images through a single medium format lens. You can then stitch these images together in post. It’s a low-cost alternative to using a digital medium format camera, and a great way to capture super high resolution images and breath new life into old lenses. Here’s the view through the RhinoCam’s composition screen at Falls Park in downtown Greenville–composing upside down is a bit of a challenge : )
And here’s the image I captured. I used my friend Mike’s Canon 5D mark II and a Hasselblad V Planar f/2.8, 80mm lens. The image is made up of six shots that I stitched together and converted to black and white in Photoshop.
Later that week I went up to Caesars Head State Park with my sister. The view from the overlook is breathtaking, and I had to get a couple shots.
Both images are made up of 12 photos shot with my Canon EOS Rebel T2i and stitched together in Photoshop. I grabbed one more non-RhinoCam image with my 40mm pancake lens before we left.
Shooting with the RhinoCam is similar to shooting with a large format film camera. It slows you down, makes you think, and it’s pretty relaxing. I’m definitely planning on shooting with it again.
If you’re wondering exactly how the RhinoCam works, here’s a video I made recently for Fotodiox that goes step by step through the entire process. (This video is specifically for the Canon EOS M version of the RhinoCam.)