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What happened to the old style aperture blades?

rawhead

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Hasselblad/Zeiss 110/2 actually has a two-layered aperture, where the front ones a pretty typical 5-blade that are slightly curved to give you a slightly rounder pentagon, but the rear layer stop down circularly, until around F5.6. Pretty cool design.