The Hasselblad X1d is beautiful and terrible
The Haddelblad X1d is simultaneously one of the most beautiful and yet one of the most tragically terrible cameras I've ever used.
It produces excellent images when it produces images but it's as slow as a 4x5 without the reliability.
The X1D is very easy on the eyes for an intrinsically ugly camera.
Being a mirrorless, you can put a whole lot of other lenses on it but with the Hasselblad having the shutters in the lenses, there are some tradeoffs - with a non Hasseblad X lens you're limited to using the electronic shutter, which takes 1/3 of a second to write the frame, so any movement in the camera during that time will show up in the final image. But the advantage of a built in leaf-shutter is that H native lenses will flash sync at any speed. So that's nice.
The camera itself is ponderously slow to respond to requests from the user to actually do something, pressing the shutter is basically sending a third class parcel package to the camera asking for it to take a photo when it has a chance. Another powerful annoyance is how slowly the camera turns on either the ELF or the rear-screen. I'm used to the Panasonic X series - the GX7 and the GX9 respond instantly to a touch of the shutter button and display the live view. Not so with the Hasselblad, where four or five frantic half-pushes of the shutter and several long seconds are required to switch the camera from menu to live view. But, if you can live with that, the images are nice. There are two newer versions (X1Dii and the X2D) both of which use the same exact sensor.
But when it does decide to take photos, they're very nice.
