I refer to the classic 6x6 format as "Hasselblad Format".

The Swedish camera which made the 6x6 large negatives famous. Now that i have the Fujifilm GFX 100s II camera, it is an irony that i forgot to use the "6x6" format in the camera. There is a setting in which you can customize / change the proportions of your images as "1:1" - or what i call 6x6 Hasselblad format. The camera's back screen (as well the viewfinder) then masks everything outside of the format in black. You get the experience of a 6x6 Hasselblad format on your screen, which on the backside LCD is pretty cool to experience.

But why have i forgotten about it ?!?

It is simple

yet pretty cool, to see the world like that... again. Reminding of looking through the viewfinder of a 6x6 camera, like Hasselblad, or in my case the Mamiya C330s camera (alt. Mamiya RZ67 camera). At least for those who once upon a time used the 6x6 film cameras. "Modern" people would most likely associate the image format as "Instagram" / "Instagram square format".

*Duh*

The 1:1 ("6x6") crop format opens up for adapted lenses

When masking the images from the GFX 100s II into the Hasselblad format or 1:1 - you still get around 76 MP image files.

If you use fullframe lenses lenses which are weaker in the extreme corners - then those weaknesses get eliminated / invisible with the cropped 1:1 format. Which opens up a wealth of 35mm fullframe lenses you can adapt to the Fujifilm GFX cameras which otherwise wouldn't want to use.

The advantage with the GFX 100s II camera

is, that i don't need to stitch anything. A portrait can be done, without the model needs to sit still for 5-8 seconds (With the Vertex adapter, you need to take 4 by 90° rotated images). It all works wonderful as long the subjects / objects are still.

It is a cool way to make images with cameras that have for example a smaller sensor - and then you get something that takes advantage of the entire or almost the entire view field of the older, analogue mediumformat lenses, such as Hasselblad or Mamiya Sekor Z (RZ67) lenses. Without any crop factor so to speak.

Regardless movement

Using the GFX 100s II of course has now the advantage that you take only one shot. Moving subjects are not a problem. And you get a "6x6 Hasselblad" sized image with 75 MP.

Tonight / tomorrow morning

I will most likely take the Fujifilm GFX 100s II with me, together with the adapted Samyang XP 85mm ƒ1.2 lens (via Fringer adapter) - and take "Hasselblad 6x6" type of square format photos. Just to get a feeling.

Sometimes I have to think of what I would like to do in photography, right after work... but many times I sort of "blank out", not really knowing what i would like to picture. This has happened several times that my mind sort of "stops"... going into an un-creative haze.

Which either leads to that i simply go home, or - i just throw myself out there somewhere in Stockholm City... and start from there.