Thursday, November 15, 2007

The 60-120 mm FE Zoom Lens


In addition to digital information, I plan to talk about all things Hasselblad, especially if they are a little unusual. The 60-120 mm zoom lens--shown at left--definitely falls into that category. The lens was--as it has been discontinued--almost 6" long and weighed almost 3-1/2 Lbs! The idea was good; one lens to carry instead of three. I haven't mentioned this yet, but the electronic 203FE has a shutter built into the camera--called a focal plane shutter. As a result, the lens doesn't need a shutter. The FE lenses are that way but cannot be used on any other standard Hasselblad cameras. However, these lenses do not have a PC post and couldn't fire the V96C. In addition, the lens is so heavy that it was extremely clumsy--impossible to use for handheld shots. The lens was not a standard Zeiss Planar design but was made in Japan. It turned out that the resulting photos were not up to usual Hasselblad standards and I had to sell it.

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