The nice folks at LensRentals sent me a Hasselblad X2D II and a 35-100 XCD lens to test. Spoiler alert: I like them both. I’ll first talk about the camera, and then, in my next post, the lens. The X2D II is the camera the original X2D should have been. It’s fixed most of the… [Read More]
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Hasselblad XCD 35-100 mechanical vignetting
I made some images of a out of focus point source at various places in the frame with the purpose of assaying the mechanical vignetting. I used the electronic shutter to avoid leaf-shutter artifacts. I combined the images from each focal length in Photoshop as layers, and selected Lighten as the blend mode so that… [Read More]
Hasselblad XCD 35-100 OOF PSF vs shutter speed with leaf shutter
Most leaf shutter cameras exhibit bokeh artifacts at high shutter speeds. The Hasselblad XCD 35-100 is no different. Here are some images of a distant out-of-focus point source at f/4 and 100mm: You can also seee some inion-ring bokeh from the way the lens was made.
Hasselblad XCD 35-100 light falloff
I tested the XCD 35-100 for light falloff by making 4 images rotated 90 degrees in turn, and averaging them in Photoshop. The subject was a white wall. The lens was focused at infinity. I developed the images in Lr with lens corrections turned off, converted them to monochrome, and reduced them in size so… [Read More]
Hasselblad XCD 100-35 on X2D II, Siemens star, corner
In this post, I continue testing the XCD 35-100 lens. I mounted the lens to the X2D II, and clipped them onto an Arca Swiss C1 that was perched on a Foba camera stand. I set the camera up as follows: ISO 50 AFS-S 14-bit precision Mechanical shutter 4 second self timer Zeiss Siemens star… [Read More]
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