Anyone else nervous about a drink a foot away from a $50k camera. He was swinging that glass around and I was holding my breath. Lol. Love the video, as always. I drop everything when I see a new one come out. Thank you Nick.

In a roundabout way this is the review Hasselblad had in mind when they gave you the camera.....honest Nick Carver

nick, the small flash is for studio lights (ir beam to trigger the eye sensor {slave cell}), and do things like fast fashon, cars, portraits in studio, without all the pc chords!! these transmitter/receivers are installed into the 'power bricks' in the system, so they can control the light heads.

My father was a photographer for the Smithsonian in the 60's and 70's. The Hasselblad medium format camera was his favorite one to use outside the studio. This was all before digital was invented. I wish he could see what the industry has done with digital cameras.

We shoot such different things, and I don't drink alcohol, but goddamn if this isn't the best channel bout pictures on this site

I love this series concept. The whole intro and showing of the drink and how it transitioned into the video was great.

What I would give to have a real-life BGWG with Nick, which would honestly just be having a drink while talking photography

man you're a class act. the one thing that became clear to me as you were starting to show the images is that film hits you in a different way, it just provokes a different emotional or chemical reaction in us, digital doesn't excite the same way. we are analog..( and I shoot digital only these days... work demands and laziness ) but this video made me miss shooting film no doubt. absolutely wonderful review. love your channel and the videos.

pause. let me get something to drink.

Hi Nick. I am a BLT convert. Another outstanding insight into your image taking prowess. Your commentary/review of the H6D-100c and lenses capturing your trails was one of your finest. Thanks for producing a fine video. Much appreciated.

I laughed out loud when you realized you were standing there in the dark by a liquor store basically holding a bag worth $45,000. I've had the same feeling with my Sony digital camera, and that's only about $5,000 worth of gear. You get so excited and immersed in what you're doing that you don't feel threatened until someone starts walking in your direction. Then it dawns on you! I can only imagine how much more anxiety that would create if I was holding someone else's $45,000!!! Great video man, I loved hanging out on the sofa and just chatting about this wicked camera. I suppose it was kind of a one-sided conversation, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Keep doing your thing man, don't change a thing.

I would have bet a million dollars on his cat being black and white!

As a fan of you & your work. To see a video where you talk about Hasselblad just made my night so great. I do own an old one and wanted someone trustworthy to give me his opinion. I wanted you to talk more and never stop. The photos are spectacular as usual from a photographer like you regardless what camera you use. Thank you so much!

Those Cajon Pass pics are excellent! I think a lot of people that commute or travel through their take it for granted. I know I used to.

I suspect the flash on the Hasselblad to be used for optical trigger for other flash systems?

Try to make DSLR scanning with this thing :)

The images you got were soooo beautiful!! Wow

Brilliant 😅👍 Great line - "Who needs a utube video of a $45,000 dollar camera!" Looks like you had a great time 😄

This is very cool, I love so many things about this video. First the scene at your home, that in itself is some fine video shooting & editing, great grading and more. Next is I learnt things that will directly influence my photography, both technically and inspirationally. You make me think a whole lot more than pretty much anyone Nick. And you bring me a bourbon based cocktail, man you hit the buttons. Then you drop gorgeous images. Best subscription on KZfaq bar none.

These photos are not only terrific as photos, but the subject matter is A+. I absolutely love all of it. Those cars say so much about so many different things, too. The review was also great, and I'm pretty sure Hasselblad is very happy with it. The 'look' is certainly there, although I proverbially reach for my revolver when the word 'compression' is used to describe the properties of an image format... The film shots of the dirt were better, BTW, but not because they were shot on film. It's just the type of ground.

You are the most under-rated photography channel I've seen. Love it. Keep it up!

That was a really fun video! Loved the info on a great Hasselblad system that I could never rationalize but like you, would love to play with. Loved the cocktail recipe, but most importantly, loved all the photos! I especially loved the Cajon Pass images as I have seen that area looking like that once (back in1984-85). I would love to own a print of the second snow-topped Joshua Tree image. I may well get in touch on that. Great content!

Right on, man. Please stick with using film. It's not about taking a photo, it's about how you make a photo. You're a legend. Keep it real.

Great video as always Nick! So many stunning photos, the one that really stood out to me was that of the snowy mountaints 25:00. Gonna need to try that drink, but dont have any bourbon so laphroaig will have to do.

Honesty is rare, clearly visible, and greatly appreciated. Stephen Shore influences are also visible - and greatly enjoyed. Well done.

well, at least the drink is in my budget. LOL I love those Hasselblads. Thanks for sharing! as usual fine job.

As an owner of the system. You hit the nail on the spot. Thanks a lot for the episode and cheers from Denmark

always a good day when we have a new video from Nick Carver

Just watching this, two years on, but it's great to see the snow shots just the same. Fantastic. It is 2022 and I am waiting for a backordered H-Blad X2 100 to have in my kit alongside the Wista 4x5. Might have to visit the high southwest (again!) Thanks for the journey and the inspiration.

Always good to see a new Nick Carver video

Nick, I love these videos so much! It feels like a natural conversation, like a podcast but much much better cause all the photos and stuff. And also getting some good recommendatios about cocktails!

Love your channel. Photos are awesome. All the best from Belgium. Still love my 645N.... but that Hassy is mmmmmm...

Drinking and talking cameras, perfect video for something like this. Been working on a bottle of Buffalo Trace, not sure if you've had it but I'm liking it.

honestly i just got interested in the hasselblad cameras and i decided to watch your video. i hit subscribe because of your honesty at the first part

Here I'm sitting with my morning tea (espresso machine is in service) and wish I'd enjoy my fav Glenfiddich to this, but damn I can't wait! Hands down the best series ever created!

Well, I guess what they got in the end is far better than what they normally get from the "usual" reviews on other channels. This was fun to watch (and I have to actually try this BLT cocktail, sounds interesting).

Nick, if you didn't already know, Fuji & Hasselblad co-produced this camera, so the colours are the same, as the Fuji made some of the sensor parts, and by the way most of these parts are interchangeable between the Fuji version (X-xxx , can't remember the exact model designation) and this, esp. for the H1 & H2 , but be careful, some HCD lenses are incompatable with the film back (6x6, Vs the 6x4.5 of the digital sensor)- with the H1/2 they are only used with the HC lenses, also not the orange square lens line (1/8000th sec. leaf shutter), the majority of the H's can use the older 1/800th leaf shutter lenses, but not the faster ones (this H6D and the older H5D, I think, don't quote me, but from recall) but those newer ones can use the fast shutters.

Most relaxing, informative videos on KZfaq. Always love your vids Nick 😎🤙

Poetic - dude - having just jumped in on the H6D100c (beware the 50c is the crop sensor same as H5D which I already had - - I very nearly made that mistake) - I needed a tonic from the inevitable and hopefully short buyers remorse!!!! BLT's are on me!

Frick. I don’t even make that in a year. But man, I wouldn’t mind one. Thanks to you though, I finally went out and found a like knew Hasselblad 500cm that I couldn’t resist. It’s been the camera I’ve always wanted and it’s everything I’d hoped it would be. Thanks for the inspiration. Btw I loved those photos.

Like your photos mate. Really nice captures. And also like your way of talking - like a cow boy. Great video!

Those pictures are all fantastic. So damned nice everything. Excellent snow shots as well… congrats :)

The best salesman My 501 with 120mm still working today in 2021

Needless to say, all photos shown in this video are world class 🙌

The only thing I can afford in this clip; the lemonslice in that BLT.

I just watched your triptych video with the feathers and the bison skull a few days ago. But now...where is that video? Can't find it anywhere. Did I dream this? Any way I love your channel. I subscribe to many channels and yours is one of the few that I get excited about when there is a new post. Keep up the great work. And where is that triptych video!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

25:00 just wow that picture looks like a glimpse into an ice planet somewhere in the universe

I just discovered your channel after Todd Korol mentioned you on his video. I am so glad I came to check your videos. Amazing pictures delivered in a great honest way without nonsense. Thank you

I would love a slightly more extended discussion of the "film -> digital" resolutions you rattle off around 8:50. One of the things I was recently pondering was if it would be better to shoot 4x5 with a sharp lens vs 8x10 with a relatively not as sharp lens (and how subsequent scans and enlargements might be affected by it).

Thanks for recommending Weihenstephaner beer in one of your old videos. I've become a fan and think about you every time! Lol

Perfect type of camera review! We can always find the specs elsewhere.

Hi Nick. Was catching up on some of your older videos and ran across this one. A year or so ago I bought the Hasselblad H5D-50c (used), so naturally this vlog caught my attention. Mine has a tiny nick on the sensor, but I'm able to spot-remove that easily enough. I've since had to have it sent back to Sweden for a PCB replacement. Don't ask how much that cost. It hurt. All that being said, my Hasselblad is by far the finest digital camera I own. The lenses are way beyond excellent. I was envious that you were able to fondle the 100c :) I own many excellent medium format film cameras, and am gradually improving my technique and style with them. I'm (sadly) a better collector than I am a photographer. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I've watched pretty much all of your videos, and admire your work. You actually taught me the tripod padding trick, my big carbon fiber tripod was killing my shoulder :)

One of your best yet!! I use a Hassy V system with a full lens complement, although my back is starting to complain about the weight. Seriously looking at saving my chump change for and X1D II. Less weight and a medium format sensor. Yeah Baby! As you say, there is something about the Hasselblad look, whether it be film or digital. Gotta love that cat - hopefully he will be in more vlogs. Finally, tonight I'll try a BLT, sitting by the water in Naples with my better half.

Your photos are so amazingly artistic even when they are just sample photos of a new camera.

H6D is an amazing camera. Your images have the Blad look! Nice.

It was not "oh my god" better haha been a while I'm not get to see your updates and it always a good time watching them again! Glad I'm back..

If you ever go back to Phelan, they have some abandoned boats out in the middle of the desert that would make great photos.

I love the quality of your channel and your work. Superb!

Lol - great video. I got stuck in Bakersfield during that storm on my way to the Grand Canyon. The desert was beautiful under snow. Great pics!

I love this series and wish I had thought about doing this myself. Bourbon and Photography. I love it.

Cheers! Loved it. Always informative and entertaining. Looks like Hassy got just what they were after. Win for you, win for them, win for us. Hell, everyone wins!

The drink is also known as a Leprechaun, love them.

A COMMENT ON THE FLASH: I’m not sure what the base ISO was on his 100C digital back but many of the backs are as low as 25. When shooting at f8 and higher chasing some decent DoF, with such a low base ISO that popup flash is probably not intended to be anything more than a built-in catch light.

Just tried this sippy-sipper in heated Hong Kong and it is magical! Thanks for sharing it Nick!

Great images. I’d heard there was snow in Southern California. What is going on! We have unprecedented flooding in the U.K. No snow as yet, but snow can transform an ordinary scene into something wonderful. I love the monochrome decor of the room you’re in with that framed print behind. A 40 grand camera. Nice. Don’t think I’ll be buying that model anytime soon, not unless I win the lottery and even then I’d probably buy a Jaguar XK instead.

Your buddy has a badass AEV rig. Nice shots.

I really like your high desert snow images from your time with the Hasselblad. That was, indeed, an opportune time to have that camera in your hands.

Landscape at 25:00 is gorgeous. So are the dust clouds at 21:39 and 21:53.

Drankin Whiskey and Talkin Photography .............. Perfect Combo!

nick, these are each different tools, and like film, it is the lenses as well as the sensor, and it's tech, colour science, etc which give the image a 'look', so it is a comparison, as this is a 'view' into the world of studio photo gear, and having a V system & a H system is a valid thing, as they have different uses, the H has auto focus, as it is a 6x4.5 cm digital sensor, it has a different view to the 6x6 of the V system, and there is more still diferent, as the H has auto focus and live view, the V has manual focus and a waiste level; this makes macro and wide open (shallow dof) shots better ( on the H), as you can see the result, and less risk of wasting film, as you see if the shot will work, before firing the shutter off.

Paused at 2:03, went to mix a whiskey, now I am back to enjoy the rest of the video:-)

Nick, half an hour video and your glass is still full!

HAHA, saw a liquor store other day near LA and I thought of you.. it's in Ventura county near Johnny Cash's house in Casitas Springs.. I drone by and went, "Whoa! It's a Nick Carver photo right there!" ..hahaha. I had no idea you were from So Cal

dust clouds was absolutely phenomenal wow

Love the energy in image @ 25:40.....

I appreciate each of the videos that I've seen from you. In my opinion you're a photographic treasure on steroids ! Thanks !!

Loved this video! Always going up the hill wish I photographed it in the snow! Got the Chance to drive through but didn't get the time to stop.

That's my Dream camera, my mom bought me a sony a1 but didn't buy me this cause she thinks am not that much professional yet

That grain looks like the grain was turned on not like noise a digital camera can create. My girlfriend will argue with you if you call noise grain lol. Curious. We have the GFX for context. 32k for the body is ridiculous for the technology. Price is for the brand. They have been Fuji Cousins for years and I’ll take my Fuji over the one focal point. Thanks for the years of great videos Nick and the insight into your career. Cheers.

I dont like digital cameras BUT THIS $32,000 CAMERA IS AMAZING

Man those colors are fantastic!

This helped reaffirm my opinion that film is awesome and irreplaceable

Really enjoyed this video. Absolutely no need for this camera, but you made me want one. Putting my car up for sale tomorrow.

Nick, I started watching this earlier this afternoon but paused it so I could finish while having a BLT tonight. A BLT sounds awful, but it's surprisingly good. I think a BLT will replace a gin and tonic as my go-to on those nights I don't feel like making a manhattan.

Nice video.. In fact all of your videos are entertaining and informative..... The BLT is the bomb..... Having one as I type.. Great work Nick

$45k? After 20 years of paying on it, I could "almost" pay off my house with that. Another awesome BGWG episode! Great, honest, review Nick! Thank you. There is something about flying dust/dirt/rocks that is calming to the soul. Yucca Valley Liquor, been there. ;) (Still pissed at you for driving up the prices of spot meters though.)

I actually use this body with the film back. You should try that if you ever get another chance to. Though, the digital back would make it an easy way of doing a test shot.

Nice experience, nice shots, especially with these cars.

Wow... that BLT cocktail is almost just like a cocktail my friends and I pioneered-we dubbed it ‘Rancher’. Only difference is ours had a few dashes of bitters. Orange bitters work well. 🤘🔥

That's an awesome camera. Thanks!

Made a similar mixed drink but with orange instead of lemon - I dubbed it the bourbonic plague. I drank a few too many and was pretty hungover 😂

love your style bro. thanks for sharing your experiences and knowledge

yaaaa... i shoot street photos with my Hasselblad as well and what you said about being in the wrong part of town at night with it... i can relate. though mine isn't 40000$ it's the older H4D-50 still... people know it's expensive, i get looks and comments about it. mostly about the huge lenses though. most think it's a weird video camera.

nick is always honest ha ha ha

Soon, I will hear you say you want to shoot with a FUJI GFX! Wow Carver, you are treading in new territory!

Been watching a lot of your videos and have really enjoyed everything. Even though I don't shoot film, I love watching your process, and I've learned a ton. Oh, and Jack Daniels isn't bourbon...

I don't think I'll buy one, but it's nice to know all about it.

This was straight-up Ron Swanson while you were talking whisky. 😂👌🏼

Once again, another awesome video Nick! Obviously a camera I will never be able to afford or probably ever use, but live just watching and learning about new tools and what can be achieved. It feels dumb to ask, but I really love your style of photos and how a lot of what you shoot is in focus: Do you tend to shoot at a higher aperture to get everything in focus? If so, what’s normally your go to? Lastly, loving the dust cloud collection! Definitely would make an awesome print series... hint hint haha

Beautiful images with remarkable detail even when shrunk down to KZfaq resolution. I don't know if it was the detail or the color rendition but they felt very film like to me.