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Totally silly macro here. Using the same Carl Zeiss lens from my Hasselblad and adding extension tubes to do some macro shooting. A little post effects in Lightroom and something that I thought was kind of fun.

So for reference, here's what the camera looks like with a medium format lens. It's kind of silly on one hand but kind of cool on the other.

In order for me to do this I had to put three adapters on to the lens to fit it to the Pen.

I did some more tests with the lens and with a 5Dmk2 and got similar results. The CZ Distagon was very very nice on all systems. Only one lens in my current F/2.8 series of lenses that beat it was my Canon EF 100mm L and just barely.

The Canon EF 100mm L only beat it wide open at F/2.8. however the vignette by the 100mm was obviously more (considering the Medium format was cropped). At F/5.6 and up it was hardly any difference with only a slight bit more contrast coming from the 100mm. A bit of an unfair comparison, but was the only lens that could beat the Hasselblad CZ. I'm curious about what the Hasselblad CZ Macros are like now??

Okay… I don't know where the notion that Medium format lenses can't render well on a dense sensor like the E-P3 but I just had to do a test to find out how things compared.

First off one lens is the one from my new Hasselblad Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm F/2.8, a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 85mm F/2.8, and a Rokinon 90mm F/2.8.

Now clearly the Sonnar is going to be at a slight disadvantage, however I was actually looking for resolving and I was quite shocked that the Hasselblad CZ Distagon won here. I only have one other Distagon lens, so I'll have to compare them against each other, but going three format sizes down, and higher density sensors I was able to see much better results from the Hassy, at least wide open than the other two. I'm actually considering using this Hassy as a portrait lens on my 5D, it's that good!

Focus is all set on the eyes of the subject. The Hassy CZ controls CA, LoCA, and Contrast all very well. None of these lenses have filters on them and all of them were shot on a tripod, remotely triggered.

I am not surprised by the uncompromising quality coming from Hasselblad Carl Zeiss, but what I am surprised is that this lens can render images on the smaller formats with such clarity. I now question the notion that Medium Format lenses are done with a spec that won't look as good on smaller formats. I think it comes down to what standards those lenses are built by, and clearly Carl Zeiss over specs these lenses at least for the Hasselblad system in this case.

Okay… I don't know where the notion that Medium format lenses can't render well on a dense sensor like the E-P3 but I just had to do a test to find out how things compared.

First off one lens is the one from my new Hasselblad Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm F/2.8, a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 85mm F/2.8, and a Rokinon 90mm F/2.8.

Now clearly the Sonnar is going to be at a slight disadvantage, however I was actually looking for resolving and I was quite shocked that the Hasselblad CZ Distagon won here. I only have one other Distagon lens, so I'll have to compare them against each other, but going three format sizes down, and higher density sensors I was able to see much better results from the Hassy, at least wide open than the other two. I'm actually considering using this Hassy as a portrait lens on my 5D, it's that good!

Focus is all set on the eyes of the subject. The Hassy CZ controls CA, LoCA, and Contrast all very well. None of these lenses have filters on them and all of them were shot on a tripod, remotely triggered.

I am not surprised by the uncompromising quality coming from Hasselblad Carl Zeiss, but what I am surprised is that this lens can render images on the smaller formats with such clarity. I now question the notion that Medium Format lenses are done with a spec that won't look as good on smaller formats. I think it comes down to what standards those lenses are built by, and clearly Carl Zeiss over specs these lenses at least for the Hasselblad system in this case.

Okay… I don't know where the notion that Medium format lenses can't render well on a dense sensor like the E-P3 but I just had to do a test to find out how things compared.

First off one lens is the one from my new Hasselblad Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm F/2.8, a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 85mm F/2.8, and a Rokinon 90mm F/2.8.

Now clearly the Sonnar is going to be at a slight disadvantage, however I was actually looking for resolving and I was quite shocked that the Hasselblad CZ Distagon won here. I only have one other Distagon lens, so I'll have to compare them against each other, but going three format sizes down, and higher density sensors I was able to see much better results from the Hassy, at least wide open than the other two. I'm actually considering using this Hassy as a portrait lens on my 5D, it's that good!

Focus is all set on the eyes of the subject. The Hassy CZ controls CA, LoCA, and Contrast all very well. None of these lenses have filters on them and all of them were shot on a tripod, remotely triggered.

I am not surprised by the uncompromising quality coming from Hasselblad Carl Zeiss, but what I am surprised is that this lens can render images on the smaller formats with such clarity. I now question the notion that Medium Format lenses are done with a spec that won't look as good on smaller formats. I think it comes down to what standards those lenses are built by, and clearly Carl Zeiss over specs these lenses at least for the Hasselblad system in this case.