M lenses and Hasselblad xD

[Sittisak Prukpitikul]

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Anyone has experience using M lenses with Blad, please kindly share.

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[a.noctilux]

Welcome here, Sittisak Prukpitikul,

I don't have Hasselblad XD, do you mean X1D ?

If that camera is the one you refered to, it's sensor of 43.8mm x 32.9mm  would not be covered entirely with Leica M lens, mostly.

I've seen that the Tele-Elmar 4/135 can cover larger "sensor" field ( maybe 6x6 ), but other lenses for M just cover a bit more than 44mm .

Maybe some M lenses can cover the sensor field, but I'm not aware that people use M lenses on X1D.

Even if the M-X1D adapters exist ( like here (link) ), no comments yet.

[ropo54]

I have tried the R 80, Noctilux 0.95 and voigtlander15mm vIII.  The R 80 shows almost no vignetting, while the others do. With 50 mp there's room to crop out the vignetting. 

To use the M lenses with adapter, one much make certain to click the electronic shutter.  

The top 2 photos were taken with the R 80.  The bottom with the Voigtlander 15mm

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Edited April 13, 2020 by ropo54

[CharlesL]

The Fuji GFX cameras are a good alternative. They have a mechanical shutter. You can shoot first and crop later; you won't fill the entire sensor, but you'll get more area than a full-frame sensor. Or you can put the camera in "35mm mode" and let the camera crop for you.

Summicron 50 ver. v at f/4.

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