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Hasselblad XCD 35-100 mechanical vignetting

December 24, 2025 JimK Leave a Comment

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 several images are superimposed.

 

100mm f/4

 

60mm, f/3.5

 

35mm. f/2.8

A closer look at that:

35mm. f/2.8

There is not much cat’s eye effect.

 

X2D, X2DII

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