How much improved is the image made by Hasselblad CFi lenses over the CF lenses?

[Certain Exposures]

Are we talking about improvement visible enough for grandma to ask if we got a new camera?

Or are we talking about basement dweller pixel peeping?

Do any of you have side by sides?

I am curious about the image - not the mechanical improvements.

 

[Alexander6x6]

If you are not aware to shoot digital, then you will see no difference. CFi together with CFE have much less chromatic aberrations (if any) than the lenses from the 80s. Distagon 40 IF is exceptional.

 

[itsdoable]

... CFi together with CFE have much less chromatic aberrations (if any) than the lenses from the 80s. Distagon 40 IF is exceptional.

I was under the impression that the CFi only improved the flocking, reducing flair & ghosting. Most had the same optical design, where the CA did not change. T* did not change, nano coating was not introduced yet. CFE, which came later, had all the CFi improvements.

 

[rulnacco]

I don't think, under the vast majority of real-world conditions, you'll see any difference at all between CF and CFi lenses. As the poster above said, the only real change optically was maybe a bit better flocking to prevent stray light scattering, which *might*, every now and then, result in slightly less flare or minutely higher contrast under exactly the right conditions. There should be no difference whatsoever in the optical formula or the glass composition/coating.

I have both CF lenses (four of them) and CFi lenses (two), and I can't see any real differences in the quality of the images from the two types. I do rather like the ergonomics of the CFi lenses just a tiny bit more. But really, it's not at all a big thing, and I use both kinds interchangeably during shoots and don't, when switching from CFi to CF notice any annoying degradation in ergonomics. I really don't even at all notice the differences between the two in the heat of a shoot.

 

[Certain Exposures]

OK, thanks, everyone!

 

[mshchem]

I've got the CFi and CF I've never looked close enough to notice anything. Use a lens hood, tripod etc, you'll never see any difference. MHOFWIW
The older lenses are lovely too!

 

[Hassasin]

The lenses differ immensely in handling not in image output, which is non existent. And the handling difference is nothing trivial, it’s like an entirely different tool. If I were to choose I’d take CFi over CF even with significant price difference.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Are we talking about improvement visible enough for grandma to ask if we got a new camera?

Or are we talking about basement dweller pixel peeping?

Do any of you have side by sides?

I am curious about the image - not the mechanical improvements.

Since they have the same optics, there should not be any difference