Coinciding with the launch of the Hasselblad X2D II 100C, the Swedish medium format specialist has announced the Hasselblad XCD 35-100E – its latest “trinity lens” delivering an effective 27-78mm focal range, which does the job of 7 XCD prime lenses.
Now, I put “trinity lens” in quotation marks because there is a caveat: this is an f/2.8-4 lens, so it does not possess the constant f/2.8 aperture that is the hallmark of trinity lenses. There is, however, a caveat to that caveat, because trinity equivalents on medium format typically top out at f/4 – such as the Fujifilm GF 45-100mm f/4, which is also slower, bigger, heavier and has a more restricted zoom range.
