HC 3.5-4.5/50-110

[NickT]

Please use this thread to post reviews, opinions and images from the HC 3.5-4.5/50-110

Here is a link to the technical data for the HC 3.5-4.5/50-110:

http://hasselblad.com/media/6957ffe6-00da-45c1-ae14-356a81f53c6e-HC50-110.pdf

[pchong]

This is quite a nice lens...I just wished it was a bit lighter. I don't use it as often as I would have liked due to its weight. I think the balance of contrast in this is a bit different from the other Hasselblad lenses. This one is a bit smoother...I think offering perhaps a bit less contrast, and a bit more gradation in the tonality....makes sense?

Here are a couple of pics taken with this lens.

[Alex Maxim]

f/7.1:

100% (f/7.1, 1/100sec, 95mm, ISO50, handheld with strobes):


f/14, 1.4sec, 50mm, ISO50:


f/9, 1/160sec, 105mm, ISO100, handheld with strobes:

[Alex Maxim]

f/3.5 @ 55mm:

100% (f/3.5, 1/15s, ISO 50, 55mm)


f/4.5 @ 85mm

100% (f/4.5, ISO 100)

[silvesterkok]

50-110mm @70mm / f5.8 / ISO 400

[Dick Roadnight]

F11, 1/20th, @65mm MLU Port Isaac Harbour, Cornwall, UK (Outside Doc Martin's Cottage).

Took pix for HDR bracketing, but Phocus coped without. On the full res version you can almost count the tiles on the houses in the back row.

[pchong]

F11, 1/20th, @65mm MLU Port Isaac Harbour, Cornwall, UK (Outside Doc Martin's Cottage).

Took pix for HDR bracketing, but Phocus coped without. On the full res version you can almost count the tiles on the houses in the back row.

That's what I found too...with Phocus, I don't need HDR...amazing isn't it? I can almost always recover the shadows and blown highlights.

[Jacephoto]

I like this section of the website already!

[BLASR]

Alaska

[rc3@grandecom.net]

I use this lens a lot. The first one I bought after switching from v system.
image made at 50mm f16 1/20

[desertdiver]

A few more desert scapes taken with a HC50-110@50mm on H2 and P20

[desertdiver]

One more desert capture taken with HC50-110@110mm on H2 and P20

[BLASR]

Marshfield,MA

HD4-60 50-110 @70

[SteveK]

Did anybody compare the quality of this zoom with the fixed focus lenses? I fear that it can not compete with the 100/2.2 or the HC50

[Paul Fawley]

Did anybody compare the quality of this zoom with the fixed focus lenses? I fear that it can not compete with the 100/2.2 or the HC50

Ive had a job recently where two of us were shooting a job for a chandelier manufacturers, we had two kits, one with a 80mm and a 150mm the other used the 50-110, occasionally swapping when we needed the wider end, definition  was paramount as they were being cut out,  I cant say that we could see any difference shooting at f16-f22.

Its a big beast and a tripod mount under the lens would be good (didnt someone once manufacture a lens support for it??) but for working quickly it sure beats changing lenses 

HTH

Paul