FS: Hasselblad XCD 30mm, f/3.5 lens with Pelican Storm case.

[Lust4Life]

Price dropped today, 6-19-2025 for lens and Pelican case with custom foam insert to:
$2,000.00 cash.  Ground shipping uninsured included to lower 48 included.

Getting close to 78, so decided to get busy and sell of what I am not making use of at this time.

Lens is in as new condition with the exception of a tiny dimple in the lens shade.
Has always been kept in the Pelican case, which I must I have really enjoyed. Has the custom cut foam to fist the lens.

Firmware is the latest: v.0.6.04
Actual Clicks on lens: 6484.

All I shoot are landscapes and I find for my work the lens is excellent in the f/9,10,11.
I am a bit retentive regarding shapeness and this lens has kept me happy.
Has been mated to my X2D and in perfect working order.

If you are looking at this post, you know Hassie so I will not state all the specs.
If you live close to Chapel Hill, NC, you are welcome to swing by, check out the lens and take a couple  of test shots.

Price, with case is $2,250.00 Cash.   Current new price at B&H is $3,499 without case and foam.
6-14-2025, adding OBO, but please offer justification why my current price is not fair.  Thanks.

Shipping is your call for carrier, insured or not, and  cost is what ever the carrier charges.

Just PM if you seek more photos as I'm at the limit already.

Best to all here.
Jack

[Lust4Life]

Added "OBO" to my posting.

Will also shortly be offereing a  21mm XCD I own with original box.
About 700 click on it, but  must check when I have time.

[Rob C]

Jack, you know your business best, but I’m eighty-eight and repent having sold away my 500C and 500C/M. With the later available digital backs they would, today, still have been amazing cameras.

With advancing years came depleting income, and modern Hassy replacement a dream too far. Think long and hard.

Sorry to stick my nose in, but age can distort real values; better getting annoyed by me today than harbouring future regrets.

Rob C

[Lust4Life]

Hi Rob,
Enjoyed your note, and agree with it.
Quite frankly, IF I had stuck with the 500CM and the Leaf P45+ back I had from when I was
consulting with Leaf in their digital development stages, I would have been smart!
The very best image taken during all the years of different cameras I have shot since the P45+, was actually taken with the Leaf!! 24x45 landscape shot over my fireplace that everyone appreciates that sees it.

But time moves on and here we are, but I refuse to focus looking back. At our age, that is a mistake most make.

I just purchased the 35-75 XCD and really like it, crazy high price, but selling off the 30, and I expect the 21, will recover some of the cost.  The 30 I have is extremely sharp, BUT the 35-75 is working out great.

Have shot a couple of scenes and having that capacity in one lens to Zoom, I find I am using it.

So this lens choice makes more sense than when I  "upgraded" to the X2D!  LOL

Best to you,
Jack

[KLaban]

Always look forward, in every sense of the phrase.

[Rob C]

Hi Rob,
Enjoyed your note, and agree with it.
Quite frankly, IF I had stuck with the 500CM and the Leaf P45+ back I had from when I was
consulting with Leaf in their digital development stages, I would have been smart!
The very best image taken during all the years of different cameras I have shot since the P45+, was actually taken with the Leaf!! 24x45 landscape shot over my fireplace that everyone appreciates that sees it.

But time moves on and here we are, but I refuse to focus looking back. At our age, that is a mistake most make.

I just purchased the 35-75 XCD and really like it, crazy high price, but selling off the 30, and I expect the 21, will recover some of the cost.  The 30 I have is extremely sharp, BUT the 35-75 is working out great.

Have shot a couple of scenes and having that capacity in one lens to Zoom, I find I am using it.

So this lens choice makes more sense than when I  "upgraded" to the X2D!  LOL

Best to you,
Jack

I guess that hindsight is at least as efficient as any other system of running a personal plan. My hindsight has generally proven to be at least ninety-five percent accurate, though it’s getting less reliable these recent years. For example: I thought that I wasn’t ever really a fan of Julie London. That one proved to be quite wrong: I’ve got her filling the space between the earphones on my head as I write this, and the same has been true for the past few weeks, especially round about ten, when it’s time to do the day’s dishes. Rock ‘n’ Roll is out of the picture of late. That really surprises me.


I dunno; looking back ain’t so bad: after a certain stage in life, when pretty much all the thing that mattered most no longer even exist, the old advice about not buying any more LPs starts to sound very reasonable. Last man standing. Much vaunted, but so solitary: where do you turn to when nobody left alive can answer any of your questions about when you were a kid, just as an example? Photography as medication/sedative? did it for me, for a few years, but I have always believed that the making of a photograph really does require a clear purpose. Once, it was validation and keeping the home fires burning, but for a year or three it’s been increasingly hard to ignore that fact and yet keep on rockin’ with it. On the other hand, it does give me some justification for eventually upgrading my iPhone. The current one does all I require photographically, but it really is a bit annoying to look at such tiny images on the thing. The hope of an eventually improved longer lens does give some kind of excitement, the idea that it might open up more opportunities for using it. Ah! Julie has just sweetly - or should that be coyly? - informed me that ‘nice girls don’t stay for breakast”. On that note, time to hit the sack. Perhaps the plumbers might come tomorrow; if not, next week. Mañana is for real.

[KLaban]

Jack, you know your business best, but I’m eighty-eight and repent having sold away my 500C and 500C/M. With the later available digital backs they would, today, still have been amazing cameras.

With advancing years came depleting income, and modern Hassy replacement a dream too far. Think long and hard.

Sorry to stick my nose in, but age can distort real values; better getting annoyed by me today than harbouring future regrets.

Rob C

The Blads were great cameras when tripod mounted and remembered with great fondness, but the mere thought of using them now just fills me with horror, regardless of the choice of back . Hand-holding: forget it!

I'm afraid nostalgia and hindsight are all too often unreliable bedfellows.

Jack, good luck with your sale and apologies for hijacking your thread.