Dear Blowupster, would you mind telling me what you think of the FE60-120. I have heard not so good things about it. It is a Japanese manufactured lens I believe.
Saad
First I dislike zomm, and in 30 years of photography, it is my first zoom. I don't really know why I wanted to try this one, but I bought it in 2009. Second, Hasselblad never built any lens. To accept a zoom made by a Japanese factory, I understand that the level was height enough. BTW all lenses for X-pan and H are made in Japan.
So the lens is really heavy, but my FE-50mm too.
The minimum focussing distance is not so fair for my use, however ok it's usable.
The focussing ring is particularly soft and helpfull for fast focusing with alive portraits. The zoom ring allow to focuss at 120 and the zooming at 60mm. If you go to hasselblad pages, you have MTF curved that are not as good as the 100mm 3.5 but beter than other lenses as 150mm 4.0.
For portraits with crop factor of the cfv-39 this zoom is perfect to me.
The final quality is far enough to show dermatological problem of child !
With 4.8, it's not as fast as a 110mm 2.0 !
However I noticed that sometimes, I made no pictures because I took two lenses and the heavy bag avoid me to improvise a shot.
At the end, with the cfv-39 at 400 asa, it's possible to close at 8 to 11 to get natural portraits and in this case it's really easy to shot with the zoom and the winder.
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I use fujichrom film in 220, in fact I just need one 120 back for the new Tmax 400 with does not exist in 220.
I prefer B/W with film and foma paper than digital B/W, and I found one very high
level lab in France that does exactly what I want (I use post office !)
