Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Michael Erlewine on February 08, 2025, 08:49:28 pm
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I am a close-up photographer and have a number of cameras systems, Nikon, View Cameras, and Hasselblad X2D. I’m always looking for a very thin extension tube so that I can use to bring more lenses closer.
In general ,I don’t believe in extension tubes because they degrade a perfectly built lens, but if I am going to use one, as good as many of the Hasselblad XCD lenses are, then I want it to be very, very thin. That way, at least in the center, there is as little degradation as possible.
And as good as the Hasselblad XCD lenses are, I could only hope that someday Hasselblad would come up with a thin extension tube for the XCD lenses, yet I dared not think it would actually happen.
This 9mm is about as thin an extension as physically possible for such large lenses, more than I could hope for, and it maintains AF and Auto Exposure Functions. It took a while to show up, yet it is very well made and perfect for many XCD lenses like the 30mm and others.
Hasselblad X2d with XCD 80mm f/1.9 with 9mm extension
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That's bananas
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X2D ll with 35-100mm and a 9mm extender. Hand held
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I think you are probably better off with the HC120 Macro and the three Hasselblad extension tubes which come with excellent tables. You certainly don't need autofocus for macro as you focus with your feet (actually elbows)
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I used the 9mm extension tube on my XCD 135:2.8 to get this.