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Hasselblad 35/3.5 HC on GFX

April 2, 2017 By JimK 6 Comments

This is the 21st in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX-50S. The series starts here. You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series; just look for “GFX 50S”.

I now have three adapted lenses that work well on the GFX: the Otus 55 and 85, and the Apo-Sonnar 135/2. Both the native 63 and 120 macro work well, too. Now I need to find a wide-ish lens. I thought the Hasselblad 35 mm f/3.5 HC, originally made by Fuji and marketed by Hasselblad under their name for their H-series cameras. I mounted it to the GFX using the Fuji H-lens-to-GFX camera adapter. If you like 4:3 or squarer images, a 35mm lens on the GFX is equivalent to a 25 mm lens on a full frame (24×36 mm) camera.

Here’s the recipe for the shots to follow:

Shutter set to EFCS.  Apertures from f/3.5 to f/11 in whole stops, except for the first step. I focused three times at each aperture, and picked the sharpest images.  2-second self-timer. Arca-Swiss C1 cube on RRS sticks. Focus was upper-center-left of the image, on the trees above the roof. ll images were refocused at each aperture.Daylight white balance selected in Lightroom.

The scene wide open:

 

At the focus point at 253%:

f/3.5

Here’s how to use these highly-magnified crops. The dimensions of the GFX sensor are 8256×6192 pixels. If we make a full-frame print from the GFX on a printer with 360 pixels per inch native driver-level resolution, like the Epson inkjet printers, we’ll end up with a 23×17 inch (58×44 cm) print. The 318×246 pixel crop you’re looking at will end up 0.8333×0.6833 inches (2.12×1.74 cm). Let’s imagine that you or your viewers are critical, and will look at the 22×17 inch print from about 18 inches (conventional wisdom is that the distance would be a little greater than that, or 28 inches (the diagonal), but you did buy a high-resolution camera for a reason, didn’t you?).

The next step is dependent on your monitor pitch, which you may or may not know. Turns out, you don’t have to know it. Just take the 253% crops and view then at 1:1. How high are they? Get out your ruler and measure, or just guess. Let’s say they are 6 inches high. 6 inches is about 7 times 0.8333, so in order to view the crops the way they’d look from 18 inches on the print is to view them from 7 times as far away, or 10.5 feet.

Everything here scales proportionately. If the image on your screen is bigger than 6 inches, increase your viewing distance by the ratio of your image height to 6 inches. If you thin your viewers are going to almost get their nose to that print and look at it from six inches, divide that 10.5 feet by 3, and look at the image on the monitor from three and a half feet away.

 

f/5.6

 

f/8

 

f/11

That’s pretty darned good.

On the left-center edge:

f/3.5

 

f/5.6

 

f/8

 

f/11

 

The f/3.5 image is a tad soft, but the others are really good.

In the upper right corner:

f/3.5

Some falloff and softness is apparent, but it’s not bad at all. This lens was made to cover a much larger sensor.

f/5.6

Looking good now.

f/8

 

f/11

I think I’ve found my short lens for the GFX.

 

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Francesco Bertelli says

    March 9, 2020 at 8:52 am

    Have you compared the Hasselblad 35/3.5 to the Pentax 35mm/3.5?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • JimK says

      March 9, 2020 at 8:57 am

      No, and I’ve sold all of my Hasselblad lenses.

      Reply
      • Francesco Bertelli says

        March 9, 2020 at 2:48 pm

        so what’s your keeper in the 35mm for digital MF?

        Reply
        • JimK says

          March 9, 2020 at 3:38 pm

          When I need 35mm, I’m using the Fujifilm 32-64/4.

          Reply

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