Joining Hasselblad’s X System of mirrorless medium format lenses, the company is announcing the lightweight, compact XCD 28mm f/4 P wide-angle lens. As a sleek prime with an impressively low-profile form factor, high-quality optics, and precision focusing technology, the XCD 28mm f/4 P lens was designed to take outsized, medium-format photography into the chaotic confines of city streets.
Measuring a scant 1.7" in length and weighing about a half pound, the XCD 28mm f/4 is at least half the size of Hasselblad’s other wide-angle options. This palm-sized portability is perfect not only for street photography, but travel, nature, and urban architecture, as well. The lens further maintains the X System’s design standard with its metal body and focus ring.
With a 22mm equivalent focal length, the optical design is downstream from the lens’s form and function, arranged in a nine-element, eight-group structure that includes two aspherical elements and one extra-low dispersion element. Promising edge-to-edge sharpness, this efficient design meets the resolution requirements of X System sensors. Additionally, the lens’s minimum focusing distance of 9" and a 1:6 magnification ratio makes it an excellent option for wide-angle close-ups.
Extending the lens’s versatility are its autofocus and leaf-shutter features. The built-in linear stepping motor and the lighter, smaller focusing lens group combine with Hasselblad’s phase-detection autofocus to achieve fast, accurate, and responsive focusing. And, like other X System lenses, the XCD 28mm f/4 features a leaf shutter, which makes flash synchronization possible at shutter speeds up 1/4000-second, introducing new possibilities for dynamic lighting at the moment of peak action.
For more information about this upcoming medium format, wide-angle prime lens, including additional features, specs, and highlights, be sure to check out the detailed product page for the Hasselblad XCD 28mm f/4 P lens. Or drop us a line below, and we’ll do our best to reply to your comments and questions.
