LensRentals has loaned me a Hasselblad XCD 55mm f/2.5 V lens for testing. I needed some banners for a newsletter I’m working on, so I took the XCD 55V out for a ramble. I stayed away from the nosebleed shutter speeds where the mechanical shutter of the lens gives, um, unusual bokeh. I shot wide open. On one of the pictures in this post, I used a 20mm extension tube, which drove the X2D’s autofocus algorithm nuts. For the others, it did better, but I ended up using manual focus for most of these because the X2D AF was frustratingly unreliable.
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