+1, with a multiback you can shoot, 6X4.5, 6X6, 6X9, and with a 6X7 back can shoot almost all MF options. With a 6X9 back a 65 is moderate wide, very sharp lens.
Don't forget the 50mm for the mamiya press system which is nothing less than amazing. Plus it gives you the option of 6x9
Michael Kenna and the late Mary Ellen Mark would laugh heartily at that notion.
I no longer buy lenses with spacing as a consideration but rather how good they are optically and the 60 is by far and away one of Hasselblad's best. In fact, my all time favorite combo is the 60, 100 & 180. I have the aforementioned in CFi and my 80 is a CFe.
Back to the OP's inquiry, I also own and use the 40 FLE and 50 FLE and the 50 is simply superb. I had the Mamiya 6 kit that included the 50 and while I found the lens to be excellent, I found the camera's appetite for fresh batteries in cold weather to be a deal breaker. I also like very precise framing using medium format film so I replaced the Mamiya 6 with a Rolleiflex 2.8D as my super light carry. It's not as precise as using a Hasselblad but far better than the Mamiya 6.
Michael Kenna and Mary Ellen Mark can either carry my camera bag or they can shove it, with all due disrespect! They can be pack mules for me all the time. When do they start?
When I do not have a zoom I want a range of lenses to cover many situations, and spacing the focal lengths is a good way to do it.
I agree that if someone gives me a 60mm lens, I will use it. Not often, but I will use it.
No, for the Hasselblad, I meant a 3-lens kit; 50 + 80 + 150. All prime lenses.
As I mentioned, I would have preferred 40 + 80 + 180, 3-lens kit.
I never looked into any of the Hasselblad zooms.
For my 4x5, a 2-lens kit: 90mm and 150mm.
Here the 90mm is the widest that I could go, as I cannot use a bag bellows to use a shorter lens.
For my 35mm, my primary and long lenses are zooms.
I have a 3-lens kit there also: 24 + 35-105 + 80-200/f4.5
For my DSLR I have 1 primary lens, a zoom, an 18-140 on a DX body.
I can add a lens on the long side, if needed.
Not much choice here, as there is only 1 zoom for the Hasselblad 6x6: a 60-120mm which works only with 200-series bodies. It is a beast of a lens! (at least as far as size is concerned - I had one in my hands at the local store but never tried it). Not sure it is much smaller than carrying a 60, a 100 and a 120!Gold idea (not to chose a hasselblatt zooms)
On the other hand : as we know - hasselblatt lenses are like the best of the
best "zeiss" inkluding the zooms, but the
"no zooms" are the very best .
with regards
Fine..
Be that way...
I bet when you were 60 you had an 80, but don't wait until you are 80 to get a 60....ya' dig?
Not much choice here, as there is only 1 zoom for the Hasselblad 6x6: a 60-120mm which works only with 200-series bodies. It is a beast of a lens! (at least as far as size is concerned - I had one in my hands at the local store but never tried it). Not sure it is much smaller than carrying a 60, a 100 and a 120!
And as far as the "ideal" Hasselblad combo goes: don't worry, you will own them all eventually (*)
Even if your bag only holds 3, you'll pick the "3 best for that day" depending on what you want to do.
The same probably goes for any system with a reasonable amount of lenses (e.g. Mamiya).
(*) perhaps with exception of the 30mm fisheye and the 500mm tele
Just remember that a 50mm is just a bit wider on a 6x7 camera then it is on a 6x6. I'd say a true wide angle over a moderate wide. I used to own a 50mm ULD for my RZ67 and it felt like the 25mm that I used to have on my 35mm Contax camera. I also owned a 40mm Nikkor for a 6x6 Bronco EC and it felt the same.
I'd be more worried about format choice and focal length choice. Most medium format lenses are really sharp.
That comment is true only in the context of the horizontal coverage angle caused by the difference in aspect ratio! If one considers the vertical AOV, 6x6 is identical to 6x7 or 6x8 or 6x9, due to the 56mm height of the image area. And 56mm FL on medium format is just like the AOV seen with 24mm FL on 135 format. (If one crops to 8x10" print size, the shooting format does not matter unless you are willing to have wider white borders at top and bottom.)
I do agree that camera handling and format size should be the first consideration, not the selection of a specific lens and then swallowing the dislikes of the camera that fits it!
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