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Macro shots down with my new Hasselblad

From my latest roll of Velvia 50 RVP.

An exposure from a roll of Ilford XP2 Super black and white ISO 400 film.

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??