Is there a H2D-Kit you take with you if you do not know wht to expect?
If I just go out hiking, I either take the XD HB 28mm lens because it is so lightweight AND quite sharp, if you are not worried about the edges, which with any non-landscape image I am not.
If I want to almost hike and carry a heavy-ish lens, it would be the new 20mm-35mm f/3.5-4.5 Zoom because it is THAT good, at least for the work I do.
If I don’t care about weight and want the best lens that the X2D camera can handle (again: for my work), that would be the XCD 80mm f/1.9. There is no better lens because I need a fast lens that is also sharp. There is no other.
If I want to travel somewhere (I won’t leave these in the car, ever), and don’t know what I might shoot, I would take these lenses:
XCD 20mm-35mm f/3.5-4.5 Zoom [very useful lens]
XCD 80mm f/1.9 [sharp and fast]
XCD 85mm f/2.8 [sharp and fast]
XCD 30mm f/3.5 [sharp]
XCD 120mm f/3/5 [for near macro]
XCD 28mm f/4 [walk around and more]
A short version of this would be:
XCD 20mm-35mm Zoom f/3.5-4.5
XCD 80mm f/1.9 [sharp and fast]
XCD 28mm f/4 [walk around and more]
Just a single lens:
XCD 20mm-35mm Zoom f/3.5-4.5
As I have been known to stack focus, I should mention that after I obtained the Hasselblad X2D, I am kind of cured of stacking focus.
The Hasselblad XCD lenses have such intense granularity that where I used to struggle to get things (like ‘everything’) in focus, thus focus stacking, I am no longer interested in that or if I do, I create what I call ‘Short Stacks’, meaning 2 or 3 images and stack those.
However, more and more I have shifted from worrying about sharp focus to composition. The Hasselblad X2D is to blame and I am very grateful to have this medium-format camera. I now shoot for ultimate composition rather than sharpness.
Where with my Nikon system, I endlessly tried to get the color right, with the X2D there is none of that. Sure, I can fiddle with the temperature or whatever, yet I don’t find myself doing that. As they say “Who woulda’ thunk it.”
Here is a rather dark photo, but I like dark because it was dark where I found it. Taken with the X2D and the XCD 28mm f/4 lens. You can see my shadow taking the photo.
I feel I am finally free to just take photos.
If you are interested in what I am experimenting with, I could post it here, but it is several paragraphs.
