Hasselblad's new camera jams a giant sensor into a compact frame

A couple of years ago, Sony made waves in the photography world when it shoehorned a full-frame, 35mm image sensor into a compact mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses. Today, Hasselblad is one-upping Sony with the X1D, the first compact mirrorless camera to come loaded with a medium format sensor.
The 50-megapixel CMOS sensor in the X1D is the same chip found in Hasselblad’s full-size H6D system and is significantly larger than the sensors in other mirrorless cameras, even fu