Hasselblad HC 100mm vs 150mm

[leicashot]

Thanks to all for your comments so far....

 

[leicashot]

What lens do you have now? Did you find an issue with it so you want to get another lens? I use 80mm on headshots almost 100% until i got 100 then it became around 80-90%, i don't think i will use 100 more than 80, even if i will do i feel that my 80 was a great lens and did the job, so if you have 80 and you didn't like i can understand, but if you don't have it then i may tell you go with 100, but i use that 80 on general photography as well and not just portraits, so i feel that 80mm can serve me more over 100, if i will shoot portraits outdoors i will go with 80mm because that FL is a bit wider so it may give me more room for another elements, and i may add 100 later, but for now i feel if i didn't have 100 i will not be missing anything, i may miss 80mm if i have 100 only and i tested 80 sometimes, i prefer wider side than longer even when shooting portraits, on my 35mm [Canon] i use my 24-70 more over 70-200.

I am going to pick up the 35-90mm as my main lens and need to add another for portraits. I don't have an 80 so I feel the 100mm will be better, although it's 3 times the price used.

 

[leicashot]

hasselblad kind of stuck a fork in your eye by making two of their very best lenses, the 35-90 and the 100 so close in range!!!

Absolutely.

 

[leicashot]

One more question. For headshots, I'm reading people are using the 80/100mm, but isn't the perspectibe too stretched and focal length too short?

 

[David Schneider]

I'm no expert but I have a H3d2-39 with hc 100, 150, 210 for portraits. Honestly, they are all sharp. Someone said the 210 is heavy, but barely more than a Canon 70-200 I or II f2.8. And on a camera stand, who cares? Yes, the 100 at f2.2 has wafer thin dof. But the 210 at f11 with subject 7 feet away, the dof is 3 inches. That's pretty wafer thin too, more so if you get down to f5.6.

If I'm doing a studio session I tend to use the 100 for full length to 3/4, the 150 from 3/4 to head and shoulders, the 210 for head and shoulders. But I've done portraits with all of them if I don't want to change lenses or don't have time. I use the 100 for family groups before I use my hc 35 if at all possible.