Re: Official: Hasselblad X2D II 100C Medium Format Camera announced!
bwcolor wrote: SlowDriver wrote: Ai_Print wrote: speedgraphic wrote:The 63/2.8 should have been a 63/2. The 55/1.7 is amazing but it's also enormous. Why do they make a 50/3.5 when I have a 2.5 that's not all that much larger? 44x33 sensors deserve 1/2-1 stop faster lenses than FF645 format optics, and Contax was making a 2.0 lens 20 years ago.
I want as sharp a corners as possible and as nice as the 38V and 55V are to operate and how sharp they are in the center, they are only OK in the corners where as the 45P, heavy 65 2.8 XCD are far better.
Are you using Phocus? I am not aware of this being an issue when using Phocus.
Don’t you think this is a matter of what you shoot and your definition of sharp? I have 48” long side taken with the 38v that I consider sharp from corner to corner wide open. Now, I don’t shoot planar subjects, copy work is an exception, so a bit of field curvature isn’t an issue and I rarely place my primary focus in a corner. I highly doubt that a different subject would pass my definition of sharp until stopped down, but I’m also sure that I don’t have clients that want edge sharpness when huge prints are viewed at close distance. My lenses are used for travel and the 38v is my favorite lens. In full frame format I use a 21mm Super-Elmer much of the time and I love the results from the 25v, but carrying it all day when walking ten miles per day is not as pleasant as with the 38v. I suspect the same goes for the 55v, but that just isn’t my preference of focal lengths. The 38v and 55v are great compromise lenses that keep the package small and the optics really quite good. The main thing here is corner vignetting, but I pass all my images through focus to generate fff raw files and then on to LRC.
I think this does sum it up pretty good. Both lenses have field curvature and depending on where you put the plane of focus, it can mitigate or exaggerate it. That edge to edge sharpness thing when viewing a large print close up is one of the things that is netting me more sales and commissions in one of the most exclusive and wealthy towns on earth.
My last five figure commission was for a local ski area. It consists of two massive panoramic aerials, one in Summer and the other in Winter, both are 36' feet wide and had to be stitched. These are in a very narrow hallway so the max viewing distance is 5' feet. In the Summer one shot with a Z9 and 70-200 at around 120mm, the detail is really good but breaks up a bit if you get to reading distance which given the informational tagging is well within the levels of acceptable. The Winter one was shot with the Z9 and 135mm 1.8 Plena lens at F 2.8 and is much sharper. You can use reading glasses and the detail holds up incredible well, this is a 4GB PSB file.
With a 102MP sensor, I have a minimum requirement when it comes to sharpness...
Oct 29, 2025 at 09:34 AM
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