XH CONVERTER 0.8

[Photon42]

Hasselblad just announced a new 0.8x HC lens adapter for their X camera line. Sounds like a FW 19.1.0 update is required not only for the AF to work but also to make it work at all. I just took that off the description page. Great to see these kind of things showing up. I am still waiting for the V lens adapter with included shutter ...

 

[onasj]

Really cool—it's a focal-length reducer that reduces the image circle of the H lenses, which are designed to cover a 54x40 mm sensor, to cover the 44x33 mm X1D/CFV sensor instead, which means the focal length is multiplied by 0.8 and the aperture is made wider (lower number) by 2/3 of a stop! So the 100/2.2 HC lens becomes a 80/1.8 X lens. Nice to see Hasselblad not waste any photons by reducing the size of the image circle through lenses, rather than simply cropping off the excess image circle.

 

[P. Chong]

Cool announcement.

 

[Photon42]

Really cool—it's a focal-length reducer that reduces the image circle of the H lenses, which are designed to cover a 54x40 mm sensor, to cover the 44x33 mm X1D/CFV sensor instead, which means the focal length is multiplied by 0.8 and the aperture is made wider (lower number) by 2/3 of a stop! So the 100/2.2 HC lens becomes a 80/1.8 X lens. Nice to see Hasselblad not waste any photons by reducing the size of the image circle through lenses, rather than simply cropping off the excess image circle.

Photons are precious