Buy this lens first
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- If you're building a new film camera system and you've settled on a camera but haven't got a lens yet, I would suggest you buy this lens first.
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Rob Skeoch is a career photographer, working for five newspapers and wire services before joining the team at Major League Baseball for 17 seasons and the NFL for 14 seasons. Then he was a national manager for the camera group at Sony North America before going back to shooting.
Now he shoots for gallery shows around the world, mostly street work and portraits made with a Rollei twin lens. For 35mm shooting he uses a Nikon F3 and a couple M-mount Leica cameras and shoots mostly Ilford film.
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How cool that you rediscovered your love again.
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I'm a Hassy shooter and the 120 macro is by far my most frequently used lens. For macro work, Hasselblad also makes the Proxar series of "filters" that allow greater macro, without the loss of speed or depth of field that the extension tubes create. I do use extension tubes, also. Great episode.
Glad you liked it.
Amazing Journey you're on! Thanks for sharing.
It should be fun. Things are starting to arrive. Hopefully the camera shows up soon.
Thank you. Love the back to basics joy . You have me searching for my old packed away practica . 😊👍
Have fun with it.
Love your enthusiasm while explaining. Trying landscape with that 120mm Macro might be a bit disappointing though, I have it, and it has quite a large sharpness falloff above around 7-10 meters. The 50 & 100mm are the landscape lenses for the system. Both are extremely sharp at all distances, but don't have the macro capabilities.
I'll keep that in mind.
What a great video. Just hit the "spot" for me. Looking forward to your adventure. Thank You.
Awesome, thank you!
Ordered a extension tube after seeing this video. Now I have to find out how to to adjust my light meter results.
If you meter through the lens, the meter will take care of it. If not, there must be a chart out there somewhere that says the "bellows factor" for each lens and each tube.
I really enjoy the back to basics approach to photography (and life actually). For the last couple of months I've had the OM-4/Zuiko 50mm/f3.5 Macro combo in my backpack nearly all the time and I've had a great experience shooting it. Learned a couple of things through my mistakes and this makes me happy. I've made more deliberate choices for composing my shots, I've tried to capture moments that I'll cherish in the future going back to them.
and you're an enjoyable user experience, which is one of the main points.
Recently I bought Zuiko 50mm f3,5 macro for my Olympus OM film cameras. And yeah, within a week it became my favourite 50mm lens for everything except maybe portraits - sharp edge to edge, even at full aperture, with macro capabilities. And for about $100, it's a steal...
Great. Glad you found one. Enjoy using it.
Im a hassy shooter, recently got the rolley with rolleinar for close focus portraits, really full of enjoyment… should hunt for that 120 macro down the line
Enjoy the Rollei for now, there's always things to get.
Nice video Rob. The Hasselblad macro 120 is a more versatile for all around use. But in the very close-up range, I prefer the macro bellows unit with the macro 135/5,6. Anyway, both are extremely sharp. Best regards.
Yeah, the bellows is a nice combo with the dedicated lens. Thats for serious closeup.
If not yet mentioned, Hasselblad made a "helicoid" extension tube that has a variable amount of extension with its own focus type ring. As a side note, I realize that I had emailed you a few times as I switched to Sony in 2018 with the help of Peter Jeune at "The Camera Store" It was a good move, but I still like my collection of film cameras too.
Hey thanks Don, I didn't know about the Helicoid version and will take a look. Are you enjoying the Sony's?
So this is your happy face? Love the enthusiasm and am excited to follow you putting together the kit and taking pictures. Thanks!
Glad you're enjoying it.
That's the way I always thought, a lens brand/type/focal length first then what body to mount my lens on. Thought I was the only one that thinks that way! 😀
In the 80's I bought a 90mm Leica lens. It took almost a year to save up for the camera after that. Of course the 90mm is likely the worse lens to own on a rangefinder if you only have one lens. lol
I got that lens, a CF type from a Camera Club Mate for £250 - it had the B60 UV filter on it -- I HAVE used it with an extension tube but now the Spring in the Tube is FAULTY and it will not keep open aperture any more as I try to fix it to lens. I HAVE used it at a 'Distance ' to see how it performed at f5.6 -- seemed OK . also used for Portraits but I always seem to miss focus on the EYES - --
Thanks for letting us know. Useful info!!!
Be interested in seeing how you use this lens and the results.
Yeah, just need a few more things.... like a camera.
The 120 macro has a 1:5 magnification ratio. Honestly unless you're really doing a lot of macro, there's little reason to buy it. With the need of extension tubes you might as well just stick with the 80mm
That's a good point.
I picked up a Nikkor pre AI 55mm micro and use it with a Sony Nex 7 for shooting mushrooms. I just order a Nikon F4 because it will work with all my nikon lenses. Also because I drooled over them when I was younger and could never afford one. I agree the macro lens is very versatile. Thanks for your videos.
Enjoy the F4, I shot a lot of sports with the F4 before the F5 came out.
I bought my Hasselblad 500 C/M last year, I now have the 50mm, 80mm, 150mm and 180mm lenses. I have the older 50mm and will probably buy a 50mm CF so I can use the newer filter adapters, and will round out my kit with the 120mm as you have shown. I really like Hasselblad, you get the very best lenses. The images that I make are tack sharp. I have the Mamiya RB67 Pro S, but it is more of a studio camera, just too big to lug around for mobile shoots, I find the RB lenses are not as sharp as the Hasselblad Carl Zeiss lenses. Enjoy your camera and lens!
Thanks. It will be fun. Enjoy the gear you've got as well and shoot more film. lol
My walk around lens in 35 mm is a voigtlander 58 and similar equiv in 645 and 67. Its short enough to step back and include lots in the frame yet long enough to get 5-6 ' and still have excellent bokeh. I love the 110 on my RB67 for walkabouts. That is long enough to get to 5' or more for some nice facial compression. I have a zeiss makro planar 100 2.0 that I use for film scanning but one caution with macro lenses on portraits, they can be too sharp... especially for older folk with not so perfect skin. Even with a 7' octa in tight, had one lady freak when she saw her razor sharp wrinkles on the monitor. Another youtuber use to call the nikon 60?mm macro the swiss army knife of lenses. You are raising something so many channels lose sight of in their non stop review of gear... photography can be fun. So many photos to be taken so many ways, so little time.
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What a concept! Doing something for the joy of it. So many channel creators seem to be chasing Über image quality - even if their photos are insanely boring.
Thanks, Rob. Good luck!
I have a Mamiya C220 w/ 55/4.5. That is a killer macro setup. No other C220 lens can focus so close.
For the Joy of Photography.... should write a book.
The 120MM CFi is the first lens that I got for my Hasselblad 500CM. I started with the 56MM extension tube which is my favorite out of all of them. I sometimes find stacking that tube with the 32MM or 16MM tubes gives me a unique look at things. From there I went wide with the 50MM FLE CFi lens. For a longer lens I have the super sharp 180MM CFi lens. I'd like to add a 250MM and a 40MM (or maybe the 903 SWC with the 38MM) sometime in the future. For my Nikon, I got the 60MM Macro and 105MM Macro. Those are the lenses the allow me to see things in a way that are interesting to me. Cheers!
When you have the 56mm tube on the lens is there a gap where the lens on it's own wont focus close enough but with the tube it's too close?
My reality! Want close up, kwik! Turn your 50mm wrong way round! Hassies CZ lens a blistering f5.6! And MF doesn't do even 1:3! (MF not manual focus).I done coins with Mamiya Twin lens!
My Nikon Micro (Macro) adjusts automatically in close up! ($60 used). Most Macro lenses are 4 element Tessars! Close up lenses easy way also!
The key is to have fun while doing it.
Keh offers very low rates. Used photo pro is better
That's a good point.
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Glad you liked it.
A hobby can certainly be a journey! I haven't got the macro for my Hasseblad, I've got the 'classic' set of 50, 80, 150, 250. I've used the 80mm with the 55mm extension tube to great effect. On the 80mm the 55mm extension cuts off about one and two thirds of a stop of light, so a roll of Ektar 100 becomes a roll of 32 or 25 for metering purposes, depending on how far away you focus on the lens. The focus range is about 5 to 12 cm (2-5 inches) from the end of the lens. At "infinity" of 12 cm, with f/4 your depth of focus is about one bumblebee deep (sorry for using such technical measurement). Even getting one moving bug crisp and focused is a journey! Journey waddling through some bushes on a day with enough light, that is.
See, at least we're all having fun and trying exciting things.
A good choice indeed. Although not quite light, the Carl Zeiss 120mm f4 is my favourite lens for the Hasselblad. Whether in the forest, for landscapes, for portraits or for details or macros - it is extremely versatile and delivers fantastic quality. Surprisingly, this great lens is overlooked by many.
I'm excited to get using it.
when I was younger and couldnt afford quite so many toys, I used an M2 and a Zeiss planar lens and I loved it. But eventually I took a gamble on an Olympus OM 50mm f2.0 Macro. It only went to 1:2 but the sharpness, the beautiful rendering (of all 50mms Ive used, only the 50 Lux ASPH is better IMO) and the general usefulness of close focusing even if not true macro led to me selling my Leica. I used an OM-2 with that 50/2.0 for years, and if I were to go out and shoot some film, it'd probably be my first choice if I didnt use the M2 I got to replace my old one lol (I shoot digital Leica so I would feel some compulsion to use the lenses I have paid out the nose for lol)
Yeah, I hear you. It makes more sense to have the M2 if you already have some glass. I always liked the film OM system, they also had some great glass.
I’m just curious Rob, what made you decide to go with hasselblad vs Pentax or Mamiya (or another brand)? Being new hasselbad owner as of this past Friday, it seems I’m seeing the brand everywhere now. I’m sure some of it must be the algorithms but in your case the choice must have been based on something specific given how many different systems you have shot with over the years.
I did shoot Hasselblad for a lot of years. I wanted interchangeable backs, and real sharp lenses, and a square format. Overall I think the blad is the best solution.
I am interested in watching your journey with the Hasselblad and having fun with photography again. I have watched some of your previous videos but this time I subscribed. I also have a Hasselblad with the 80mm Planar and recently purchased the 50mm Distagon, which focuses to a surprisingly close 19". I enjoy shooting some macro, so I may need to consider the 120mm Macro.
Use what you have and enjoy it, the spending never stops. lol
Crazy I came across this video after I just got my 120 makro for my Hassy! I also found some extension tubes. The 21, 32, and 55! I haven’t tested the lens out yet with film, but I’m loving what I see in the viewfinder!
Great. Interested to know which tube is most useful.
The recommendation for the Macro-lens is a good one far beyond close-up photography. Not only do they have a flat field, they also lack pincushion/barrell-distortion. And most also are that way at infinity and will deliver pin-sharp landscapes to the corners of the frame. The only things they sacrifice for that besides size and prize is speed. My most usefull-lens, that I had overhauled two times since I bought it used 1990 which is just every 12 years, is the Micro-Nikkor 2.8/55mm Ais. Im still using it today on my digital cameras for digitizing negatives. Recently I also bought another Medium-Format camera and guess which lens came with it: A f4/110m Macro.
Yes, the macro is such a useful lens.
Love your storytelling. I am sure you have some great work-stories (Hockey, NFL,….).
Glad you like them!
45 years ago, I adapted my Nikon 55mm macro lens to an enlarger, it was tack sharp.
That's a great plan.
Your joy of photography is contagious! Great video, miss my Hasselblad system. I had the 120 makro planar and extension bellows. Looking forward to seeing the system and photographs you create.
Yeah me too.
I enjoy your enthusiasm. Photography has been a hobby of mine since my early 20s. I'm now retired and often my entire day is filled with photography, be it you tube videos, ebay selling and buying, out in the field, and the like. I'd go nuts without this. Friends who are not retired often ask me what do I do to keep busy in retirement. I tell them about my hobby, and suggest that if and when they retire they'll need something to keep them from going nuts. People that retire and have no outside interests die early.
Most of us don't have enough hobbies to replace the hours we spent at work. It's a transition for sure.