(It’s also the system/shot Kai Man Wong from DigitalRev tried to replicate with a GoPro, which you can see here.) As with past Lenstopia posts, I’ve leaned on my gear gurus Erik and Sohail to help me assemble this list – and its a breath of fresh air to use some other people’s photos for this stuff instead of mine.
It’s the system I used to capture my Diver photo, which ended up appearing my Hasselblad Masters series among other places, even getting used as an album cover. In this edition we’ll be propping up the top 5 lenses for the Hasselblad system - a camera system I love for high-end, high-megapixel studio, fashion, and occasionally even outdoor photography. We kicked off with Canon lenses a few months ago, then followed with Nikon’s top 5. Hasselblad lenses were black, Fuji lenses were a sort of silvery colour.In case you haven’t been following the fun, this is the third installment in my Lenstopia series. To my knowledge, they were optically identical lenses, differentiated only by the pain colour. Fujifilm were responsible for the manufacture of all XPan lenses, and the lenses were available with either Hasselblad or Fujifilm branding on the packages. Note that the Hasselblad XPan cameras were developed in joint partnership with Fujifilm, and Fuji also sold the camera branded as a Fuji TX-1 and later a TX-2. Due to their design as a panoramic lens, the camera will automatically apply a panoramic crop to the images that are created when one of these lenses is mounted. These lenses were created for the Hasselblad XPan panoramic camera which used 35mm film. XPan lenses are not manufactured anymore, but they are readily available on the second-hand market.
The adapter only adds 21.4mm to the length of the lenses and weigh just 112g. Using the Hasselblad XPan Adapter you can mount Hasselbad XPan lenses to the X Series cameras.
Using the Hasselblad H System adapter, all H System lenses can be used on X System cameras whilst maintaining leaf shutter support and full electronic communication for autofocus and aperture control. List of Hasselblad H System Lenses (HC/HCD) XCD 135mm f/2.8 + 1.7 converter (f4.8 with converter) List of Hasselblad XCD Lenses XCD 30mm f/3.5 XCD 90mm f/3.2 XCD 120mm f/3.5 Macro XCD 21mm f/4 XCD 80mm f/1.9 XCD 65mm f/2.8 XCD 135mm f/2.8 XCD 35-75mm f/3.5-4.5 XCD 45mm f/3.5Įntrance Pupil Position (in front of image plane) If you broaden your horizons even further, the three available Hasselblad lens adapters open your options up to include 3 panoramic XPan lenses, 12 modern Hasselblad H System lenses and over sixty legacy C, CB, CF, CFI, CFE, F and FE lenses. This makes the Hasselblad X System an intriguing possibility for travel and landscape photographers who want a compact system that has a huge range of focal lengths available already in the native XCD lens lineup. Most notable is the fact that the Hasselblad XCD lenses are all quite small and light, in keeping with the svelte design of the X1D cameras themselves.
Whilst the original H1D camera was somewhat overshadowed by Fujifilm’s almost simultaneous launch of the GFX medium format system, Hasselblad has kept its heads down and built a stellar lineup of optically excellent lenses. Hasselblad’s X System is still in its infancy but the launch of the X1D II camera, and development announcement for the modular 907x camera has sparked new interest in the system. Hasselblad 907X camera with CFVII 50C digital back.