7 daysA week in photography HASSELBLAD has announced the new XCD 25mm F2.5 V lens, designed to deliver the resolution needed for 100MP cameras such as the company’s CFV 100C (described by our reviewer as ‘the world’s most beautiful camera.’) Equivalent to a full-frame 20mm focal length, the new lens has a relatively fast f/2.5 aperture, as well as a push/pull AF/MF focusing ring and a customisable control ring.
Hasselblad claims the lens gives sharp results from the centre to the edge of the frame, and the company says it is ideal ‘for urban nightscape photography, night street photography, natural landscapes, astrophotography, and low-light indoor portraits’. Like other recent Hasselblad lenses, it features an upgraded 10-blade leaf shutter unit, which is also found in the XCD28P, XCD38V, XCD55V, and XCD90V…
