LensRentals has loaned me a Hasselblad XCD 55mm f/2.5 V lens for testing. Today I tested illumination falloff off-axis. I focused the lens to infinity, and made four photographs of a white wall with the camera rotated 90 degrees between each image. I used ISO 64 and the mechanical shutter. I brought all four images… [Read More]

LensRentals has loaned me a Hasselblad XCD 55mm f/2.5 V lens for testing. In my testing this week, I determined that the lens exhibits the same kind of strange bokeh at 1/2000 second mechanical shutter speed as the 38V, and has fewer of these issues than the 90V. Today I did some testing with real… [Read More]

LensRentals has loaned me a Hasselblad XCD 55mm f/2.5 V lens for testing. Today I tested it with a Zeiss-printed Siemens Star. Details: Target distance about 7 meters ISO 64 Electronic shutter Manual exposure Manual focusing with 15-shot symmetric focus bracketing, extra small step size. 5-second exposure delay Edelkrone electrical tripod Arca Swiss C1 head… [Read More]

In the previous post I reported on the odd bokeh at high shutter speeds of the Hasselblad 55V on the X2D. I repeated the test with the camera’s electronic shutter, making exposures of a LED flashlight about 25 feet away with the camera set to ISO 64, the lens wide open and focused to 0.45… [Read More]

LensRentals has loaned me a Hasselblad XCD 55mm f/2.5 V lens for testing. It arrived today, and I’ll be testing it over the next three or four weeks. One issue the new V lenses have had — at least the 38 and 90 both had it — is odd bokeh at very high mechanical shutter… [Read More]