p.24 #1 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
algrove wrote:
Agree, could be good, but most manufacturers of adapters tend to focus on what's currently for sale and those old S lenses are at least 6-8 years old.
Maybe we can get Fringer or Kipon interested. They love the dead mounts.
p.24 #3 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Yeah, all good points…I am definitely going to pick up a 28P, and maybe sell the 55v when the 35-100 arrives…we’ll see how I get on with the 28p, need 1-2 lens solution for travel and lots of options, 28p+55v, 28p+75p, 38v+75p or 90…the smart move might simply be 38v, 90 and 135 for everything and forget about the 35-100…I am taking it slow…the X2D2ii is a brilliant camera no doubt…but the SL3 would cover all my needs a little more easily with greater range, the SL3 + 28-70 might make a good travel kit as well.
It is good to have choices, but will focus on the X2Dii for now and try to enjoy as much as possible.
flash wrote:
Early on I adapted a lot of H lenses as there wasn’t much choice early on. I still have the 100, 150, 200 and the 35-90. I really liked the 150. The 200mm was OK but not spectacular and neither is as optically good as the 135 which is just brilliant, even with the 1.7x. Also the XH adaptor has become harder to find. The 100 is a portrait lens for sure. The zoom is really big and I liked it but basically stopped using it when the 35-75 arrived. All my H lenses supported AF.
I still have my SL3’s and I agree the Sigma contemporary primes are just fantastic. But I don’t really use it much at all. I love the camera and when longer lenses are needed it’s great except the lack of EFCS REALLY annoys me. Sometimes my S1Rii pulls more detail (it has EFCS) from my L tele primes. And I now use Sony A1ii’s for long lenses. I picked up the 28-70 f2 and 50-150 f2 for it and they are sensational on an A7R5. I’ve learnt the menus. They’re awful but I know them. I also got the Sigmas for the Sony as well but they see little to no use currently. I thought maybe they’d be used on the A7CR but that camera just doesn’t inspire me, despite how good the files are. I still almost always choose the X2D(2) over it as well.
For my use case, as I collected all the XCD primes my use case for the SL3 and Sigma’s has basically collapsed. When I go to take the SL3 out, I always end up with the Hasselblad. What has happened is I use my M’s and Q3’s a bit more.
The other thing I found, apart from the SL3 is that all these little cameras need attachments to be comfortable. A thumbie for the M or a grip for the Q3 and A7CR. Basically to make them work with anything longer than a 50 they need help and then they’re simply no smaller, functionally, than the Hasselblad. The new V/P lenses are fatter but not that much longer or heavier than their 24x36mm counterparts and 9 times out of 10 I prefer 4:2 over 3:2.
So I absolutely get you miss the SL3. I’m just wondering, would you use it if you were to re-acquire it, or is a 28 and 90mm XCD lens a better choice, even though you’re getting the zoom? Still having both I don’t know that you’d not regret repurchasing a SL3.
p.24 #4 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Ugghhh…no scratches yet on mine but was hoping more durable than X2D
RomanMF wrote:
Paint on the X2D II is definitely baby soft. Lugs got scratched putting on the strap, which went on without fuss, and took me less than 10 seconds 😅
p.24 #6 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Glad we're past the point of total denial from the fanboys when it was obvious from the start
For what it's worth, I've taken my strap on and off a few times on my Earth Explorer and the lugs don't look as bad as the X2Dii pics out there, so they must have changed the paint.
p.24 #7 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Rod.smith7 wrote:
Yeah, all good points…I am definitely going to pick up a 28P, and maybe sell the 55v when the 35-100 arrives…we’ll see how I get on with the 28p, need 1-2 lens solution for travel and lots of options, 28p+55v, 28p+75p, 38v+75p or 90…the smart move might simply be 38v, 90 and 135 for everything and forget about the 35-100…I am taking it slow…the X2D2ii is a brilliant camera no doubt…but the SL3 would cover all my needs a little more easily with greater range, the SL3 + 28-70 might make a good travel kit as well.
It is good to have choices, but will focus on the X2Dii for now and try to enjoy as much as possible.
Skip the 28-70. It's not great wide open. It really needs to stop down for sharpness at any focal length. The Sigma 24-70II is much much better.
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RoamingScott wrote:
Glad we're past the point of total denial from the fanboys when it was obvious from the start
For what it's worth, I've taken my strap on and off a few times on my Earth Explorer and the lugs don't look as bad as the X2Dii pics out there, so they must have changed the paint.
Mine too. I'm not particularly sensitive to wear and tear marks but the Earth Explorer is better than the vanilla X2D. And I think the mk2 is better again. That's a low bar though. I do not have high expectations from the mk 2. It could be worse. It could be the mk 1 XPan.
p.24 #9 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RomanMF wrote:
Paint on the X2D II is definitely baby soft. Lugs got scratched putting on the strap, which went on without fuss, and took me less than 10 seconds 😅
I have taken mine on and off a bunch of times now and it has all smoothed out like my X2D did. I think it just has to break in.
p.24 #12 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
I'm curious for the people that moved from the X2D to the II...are you finding that EV 0.0 ends up metering a little bit darker than the X2D did? I'm finding that I'm having to basically raise the exposure by at least 1/3-1/2 a stop on every photo in post where I rarely did that before.
p.24 #13 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RoamingScott wrote:
I'm curious for the people that moved from the X2D to the II...are you finding that EV 0.0 ends up metering a little bit darker than the X2D did? I'm finding that I'm having to basically raise the exposure by at least 1/3-1/2 a stop on every photo in post where I rarely did that before.
I went back and compared my final LRC settings after eliminating all exposures where I used exposure compensation and found that the remaining settings for both cameras were the same… 0.0.
p.24 #14 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RoamingScott wrote:
I'm curious for the people that moved from the X2D to the II...are you finding that EV 0.0 ends up metering a little bit darker than the X2D did? I'm finding that I'm having to basically raise the exposure by at least 1/3-1/2 a stop on every photo in post where I rarely did that before.
Not my experience up till now (after about 12K pictures).
p.24 #16 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Following up, it was having HDR turned on that was causing it, as it locks the camera into "smart metering". A helpful fellow on Reddit explained it well and pointed me to his pretty comprehensive write up of HDR shooting on the X2Dii: https://blog.tonalphoto.com/x2d-ii-hdr-raw-jpg-capture-mode/
p.24 #17 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
RoamingScott wrote:
Following up, it was having HDR turned on that was causing it, as it locks the camera into "smart metering". A helpful fellow on Reddit explained it well and pointed me to his pretty comprehensive write up of HDR shooting on the X2Dii: https://blog.tonalphoto.com/x2d-ii-hdr-raw-jpg-capture-mode/
FWIW, I have HDR turned off, which might explain why I didn't see any difference. Thanks for sharing the write-up!
p.24 #18 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Howdy. I just now finished reading this entire thread. Thanks to all the contributors!
I was hoping there might be some more up-to-date views on the X2DII and the 35-100 lens (vs preferred HB primes) now that people have had a lot more use under their belts. Anyone care to share? (I'm considering this combo having been away from photography for a very, very long time.)
Also, I read that CaptureOne now supports Hasselblad. I was reading this series of blog articles (following reading an article linked to from this thread).
"A standard P3 JPEG exported from Capture One, for instance, has access to the wider P3 color gamut, but it's still limited to SDR luminance levels - typically around 200-400 nits on most displays. An Ultra HDR JPEG from Phocus, by contrast, has both: the wider P3 color palette plus the gain map that allows highlights to exceed 1000 nits on capable displays."
The article was dated 7 December '25 which pre-dates the July '26 announcement of the co-operation. As a previous user of CaptureOne (over a decade ago) I'm wondering if this means CaptureOne now offers a 'full HDR' workflow akin to Phocus or whether constraints such as that mentioned above still apply.
p.24 #19 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
Hi,
Ah - the prime vs. zoom debate which has been simmering for decades. Luckily I'll be able to resolve this in a quick post.
Har har. The 35-100 is fantastic. IQ, imho, leaves little to be desired compared with the primes. The noise reduction of Phocus is so good, not to mention the ibis of the x2d2 that I'm not sure how much the f/4 matters for light collection. Of course it won't have quite the subject separation of an f/2.8 lens.
Sometimes I just take it and am very happy. Sometimes I want a lighter camera rig and take the 38v.
Looks like you've found your Capture One answers. Not much help there as I use Phocus / Lightroom.
It's a great combo. Tough to imagine not being happy with it as a camera setup.
stevekale wrote:
Howdy. I just now finished reading this entire thread. Thanks to all the contributors!
I was hoping there might be some more up-to-date views on the X2DII and the 35-100 lens (vs preferred HB primes) now that people have had a lot more use under their belts. Anyone care to share? (I'm considering this combo having been away from photography for a very, very long time.)
Also, I read that CaptureOne now supports Hasselblad. I was reading this series of blog articles (following reading an article linked to from this thread).
"A standard P3 JPEG exported from Capture One, for instance, has access to the wider P3 color gamut, but it's still limited to SDR luminance levels - typically around 200-400 nits on most displays. An Ultra HDR JPEG from Phocus, by contrast, has both: the wider P3 color palette plus the gain map that allows highlights to exceed 1000 nits on capable displays."
The article was dated 7 December '25 which pre-dates the July '26 announcement of the co-operation. As a previous user of CaptureOne (over a decade ago) I'm wondering if this means CaptureOne now offers a 'full HDR' workflow akin to Phocus or whether constraints such as that mentioned above still apply.
p.24 #20 · Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
The X2Dii is a great camera, and it's what the X2D should have been in the first place. That said, AF-C still feels extremely rudimentary and unpolished compared to modern full frame cameras.
The 35-100 isn't a lens I'm particularly excited to take out into the world from a handling perspective due to its bulk. The focus ring and zoom ring have the identical recessed Hasselblad H pattern, making them feel basically identical. I still get them mixed up sometimes when I'm not looking, and there's not as much grip as I'd like on the zoom ring to offset the stiffness of the zoom action itself.
The images, however, are undeniable. I get better IQ at basically every major focal length than any full frame prime I've ever had. F4 sounds slow, but Phocus has great noise reduction capabilities. Eventually I'll get a smaller walkabout prime, be it a 38V or 45P or something similar...I had the 55V and just straight up didn't like the images it produced compared to the 35-100. The one no brainer prime that seems to hold up is the 90V.
Whatever you do, you should consider a Falcam cage, it completely fixes the awful strap/lug situation.
