What Lenses Can You Adapt To A Hasselblad H Camera

In case you haven't been following the fun, this is the third installment in my Lenstopia serial. Nosotros kicked off with Canon lenses a few months ago, then followed with Nikon's top five. In this edition we'll be propping up the top 5 lenses for the Hasselblad organisation — a photographic camera organization I love for high-end, loftier-megapixel studio, fashion, and occasionally even outdoor photography. Information technology's the system I used to capture my Diver photo, which ended up appearing my Hasselblad Masters series among other places, even getting used every bit an album comprehend. (It's likewise the organisation/shot Kai Man Wong from DigitalRev tried to replicate with a GoPro, which you lot can meet here.) As with past Lenstopia posts, I've leaned on my gear gurus Erik and Sohail to assistance me assemble this list – and its a breath of fresh air to utilise some other people's photos for this stuff instead of mine. Then these are my top 5 H-system lenses. Reverse opinions are anticipated and totally welcome. You know where to get out 'em.

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Hasselblad 100mm f/2.2 HC Auto

Taken with the Hasselblad 100mm f/2.2. © Faran Najafi

Hasselblad 100mm f/ii.two

We start our lineup with something of a surprise entrant. The 100mm lens from Hasselblad is close in size to the smallest lens in the Hassy lineup (the 80mm f/2.8, mentioned below), but it'due south got additional mojo. Why? For starters, at f/2.2, it'due south the fastest lens — aperture-wise — in the Hasselblad lineup. Moreover, information technology is by our account the fastest-focusing lens in the lineup, and if yous've ever picked up a medium-format rig, you know that these things aren't known for speed. Every bit counts, and when you're moving effectually a subject area, firing shot after shot, that extra speed is worth it.

Pixel peepers will find nothing to mutter about either; equally this lens is more than plenty precipitous and keeps up with even the 60mp backs Hassy has been churning out lately. Moreover, its small size and slight actress reach over the 80mm f/2.eight make information technology an ideal portrait lens.

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Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8 HC Auto

Taken with the Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8. © Faran Najafi

Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8

Next up! If the venerable 50mm lens is the workhorse for DSLRs, then the 80mm plays that role for almost every medium format system — and to that extent — information technology's this lense that Hasselblad actually sells it as a "kit" with the H5D-forty camera. It'southward pretty shut to the field of view of a 50mm lens on a full-frame sensor, too, and is most often the first lens purchase for photographers new to medium format. It's a truly versatile lens, and it lends itself to a diverseness of uses, from portraiture to landscape to everything in-between.

It's besides near the smallest lens in the Hassy inventory, which makes it easy to handle. Though non as fast (in focus or discontinuity) as the 100mm, it'due south perhaps the…um…"cheapest" modern Hasselblad lens, and at that place are a lot of photographers shooting medium format for whom the 80mm suffices for the overwhelming bulk of shots. And then consider that 😉

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Hasselblad 24mm f/4.8 HCD

Taken with the Hasselblad 24mm f/4.8. © Faran Najafi

Hasselblad 24mm f/4.8

At that place are a lot of folks who dear using the Hassy system for landscapes and architectural work, and the 24mm is an accented joy to use. Don't permit the focal length fool yous – this lens has a 104-degree angle of view, which is slightly more than the Canon 16-35mm f/ii.8L lens at 16mm. Which ways that information technology's wide — really, really, wide. I have shot a ton of shut up activeness (snowoboard) shots with this lens and it truly feels like a superwide on my dSLR setup.

A side-annotation nigh apertures in medium-format piece of work. The f/four.8 maximum aperture of the 24mm might seem comically small to folks used to f/1.4 lenses, but bear in mind that it's a lot harder to make lenses to cover the massive imaging plane of medium format cameras, then compromises have to be fabricated somewhere. Besides, at f/2.8, as in the case of the 80mm, your Depth of Field is already super-thin; a medium-format lens opening upwardly to f/ane.4 wouldn't but have a nearly nonexistent DoF, the lens itself would accept to exist much, much larger. And it's already big enough. Trust me on this one.

Back to the 24mm, though: This is most as wide as lenses go; in fact, I tin can't recall a lens that goes wider. There was a fourth dimension when Zeiss made a 24mm lens for the older Hassy V system that had to be special-ordered, and so simply having a mass-produced 24mm lens is a real plus. Besides Hasselblad, I call back I'1000 right in proverb that only Leica makes a 24mm medium-format lens.

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Hasselblad 120mm f/4 Macro

Taken with the Hasselblad 120mm f/4.8. © Sohail Mamdani

Taken with the Hasselblad 120mm f/iv.8. © Sohail Mamdani

Hasselblad 120mm f/4

Let's go macro. Equally sharp lenses go, this macro lens is one of the all-time I've e'er seen. It was created specifically to work with loftier-megapixel sensors, and information technology does so with aplomb. It checks off all the marks and requirements needed for a solid macro performer: 1:1 magnification, fantabulous performance fifty-fifty at the closest focusing distance, and keen sharpness fifty-fifty with the aperture wide open.

This lens also does double-duty as a dazzling portrait lens. With an angle of view similar to that of a 70mm lens on a 35mm sensor, this gets yous closer to a classic portrait focal length that 35mm shooters are used to. In test shoots, the lens performed admirably, delivering a detailed and clean image, with fantabulous (but not overbearing) dissimilarity and tonality.

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Hasselblad 300mm f/four.5

Hasselblad 300mm f/4.5

Hasselblad 300mm f/four.v

Hasselblad 300mm f/iv.v

Ok, now let's go LOOONNNNGGGGG. There'due south really no other way to describe it – this lens is merely apparently FUN.

Due to the reverse-crop of the massive Hasselblad sensor, this lens equates to somewhere below the 200mm equivalent range on a 35mm organisation, and so information technology's not winning whatever awards for accomplish anytime shortly. It is, notwithstanding, the longest lens Hasselblad H arrangement makes, and is really pretty quick to focus too. If you haven't figured it out already, all of these Hassy lenses are sharp, and this one's no exception. True it'due south not like DSLR or mirrorless cameras, where you can have the reach of a 600mm lens in a decent-sized haversack. But in this case, every boosted millimeter of focal length is a very nice-to-take. In the case of the 300mm, Sohail took it out onto a balcony overlooking San Francisco for a quick cityscape image and it didn't disappoint. Nicely compressed the scene, and the level of detail captured was simply outstanding.

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Sooooo that'southward it for this edition of Lenstopia. In the side by side — and final — installment, we'll take on the best lenses for the Micro-Four-Thirds and other mirrorless platforms.

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Hasselblad 80mm, 100mm, and 24mm sample images thanks to Faran Najafi.

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