Mid Aperture Performance of New V-series XCD lenses vs legacy XCD glass

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o2mpx

Does anyone have a perspective for landscapes shot at mid aperture range such as F5.6 to F8.0, is there any material differences in terms of sharpness and detail?

There're multiple posts that would indicate the new V-series lenses are not as good as the original, but perhaps most are looking at wide open performance?

Georg Kovalcik

Hasselblad provides datasheets with MTF curves for all their lenses on their website, they have MTF curves for F5.6 or F8.0 as well.

Examples:
https://cdn.hasselblad.com/f/77891/x/b93840f8a0/xcd_55v_lens_datasheet_en.pdf
https://cdn.hasselblad.com/f/77891/x/9d657ec742/xcd_38v_lens_datasheet_en.pdf
https://cdn.hasselblad.com/datasheets/xcd-lenses/XCD45P-Datasheet-en.pdf
https://cdn.hasselblad.com/datasheets/xcd-lenses/XCD30-Datasheet-en.pdf

"legacy XCD glass", well except for the XCD 3,2/90mm which is replaced by the XCD 2,5/90V none of the XCD lenses is discontinued and all other V lenses have different focal lenght, so no direct replacement.

JCM-Photos

At mid apertures all good lenses have similar technical visual performances

What's can be different is lens character, that's very important for me.
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