Hope that others can help me understand the true focal length of a HC or HCD lens on the X2D.
From what I can determine, the longest true X2D lens is the 135mm with the 1.7x teleconverter, which goes to approx 230mm (rounding up from 229.5), then you take that time .79 to get the 35mm camera equivalent focal length, so final is 181mm.
There are a couple of older HC/HCD lenses I have looked into the 300mm and 210mm. My questions:
1. If you add the 300mm to the X2D, with the X to H adapter, what is the actual focal length? 300 x .79 = 237mm or does the cropped sensor of the X2D come into play as a crop sensor does on 35mm cameras. Example 1.5 for most APS-C sensors, so a 100mm 35mm lens becomes a 150mm with the crop.
2. Same for the 210mm, on the X2D, does it become 210mm x .79 = 165.00. Has anyone used this combination on the X2D, and did they get AF and IBIS to work.
3. To get 1/2000 of a second you need an orange dot lens. Did the HC lenses ever have the orange dot? or only HCD. There seem to be a lot of used 210mm lenses out there, but not sure on the quality.
4. If you take the HC 1.7x converter and add it to the HCD 300mm you are at 510mm, and then times .79 you get 402mm. Which I believe is the longest solution out there. This is even longer than the Fuji 250 with the 1.4 converter, as it just gets to 350mm and then x .79 gets 276mm. Has anyone used the 300mm HCD with the HC 1.7 and X to H converter on a X2D. Do you still get IBIS and AF? From what I have read AF may not work, however AF should work on a 300mm with just the X to H converter as long as the lens can up upgraded to 1.19 firmware.
Any other lens solutions non Hasselblad folks have used also would be great to hear about. I realized that the older Mamiya 200mm and 300mm can be used on the X2D with a fotodiox style adapter, but no AF, not sure on IBIS.
Thanks
Paul
From what I can determine, the longest true X2D lens is the 135mm with the 1.7x teleconverter, which goes to approx 230mm (rounding up from 229.5), then you take that time .79 to get the 35mm camera equivalent focal length, so final is 181mm.
There are a couple of older HC/HCD lenses I have looked into the 300mm and 210mm. My questions:
1. If you add the 300mm to the X2D, with the X to H adapter, what is the actual focal length? 300 x .79 = 237mm or does the cropped sensor of the X2D come into play as a crop sensor does on 35mm cameras. Example 1.5 for most APS-C sensors, so a 100mm 35mm lens becomes a 150mm with the crop.
2. Same for the 210mm, on the X2D, does it become 210mm x .79 = 165.00. Has anyone used this combination on the X2D, and did they get AF and IBIS to work.
3. To get 1/2000 of a second you need an orange dot lens. Did the HC lenses ever have the orange dot? or only HCD. There seem to be a lot of used 210mm lenses out there, but not sure on the quality.
4. If you take the HC 1.7x converter and add it to the HCD 300mm you are at 510mm, and then times .79 you get 402mm. Which I believe is the longest solution out there. This is even longer than the Fuji 250 with the 1.4 converter, as it just gets to 350mm and then x .79 gets 276mm. Has anyone used the 300mm HCD with the HC 1.7 and X to H converter on a X2D. Do you still get IBIS and AF? From what I have read AF may not work, however AF should work on a 300mm with just the X to H converter as long as the lens can up upgraded to 1.19 firmware.
Any other lens solutions non Hasselblad folks have used also would be great to hear about. I realized that the older Mamiya 200mm and 300mm can be used on the X2D with a fotodiox style adapter, but no AF, not sure on IBIS.
Thanks
Paul