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DATASHEET
HCD 3,5/50-II

An all-round, versatile lens, incorporating a moderate wide-

angle effect, and featuring advanced optical design with rear
focus mechanism. Corner-to-corner illumination is very even
at all aperture settings, and distortion and stray light are
extremely well controlled.

GENERAL LENS DATA

Focal length 50,7mm

Equivalent 35mm focal length 1 34,2 mm
Aperture range 3,5 - 32
Angle of view diag/hor/vert 53,4 x 40 format 67°/56°/44°
Angle of view diag/hor/vert 44 x 33 format 57°/47°/36°
Length/diameter 116 mm/85 mm
Weight 975 g
Filter diameter 77 mm

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Horizontal coverage between 53,4 x 40 and 36 x 24 compared

CLOSE FOCUS RANGE DATA

Minimum distance object to film 0.60 m

Maximum image scale 1:8,8
Corresponding area of coverage 47 × 35 cm
Corresponding exposure reduction 0 f-stop

LENS DESIGN

11 elements in 7 groups

FOCUS TYPE

Rear focusing

ENTRANCE PUPIL POSITION

134 mm in front of the film plane

(at infinite focus setting)

The entrance pupil position is the correct

position of the axis of rotation when making
a panorama image by combining individual
images of a scene.

Specification subject to change without notice. www.hasselblad.com

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DATASHEET
HCD 3,5/50-II

MTF
f/3,5 f/8
100 100
Modulation Transfer as a
function of image height at 80 80
infinite focus setting.

MTF [%]

MTF [%]
60 60

Sagittal slit orientation drawn

40 40
with continuous line and
tangential with dashed. White 20 20

light. Spatial frequencies 10,

0 0
20 and 40 lp/mm 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30
Image height [mm] Image height [mm]

RELATIVE ILLUMINATION
1.0

Infinity setting
Relative Illumination
0.8

When images are imported to Phocus, light

0.6
fall-off is automatically removed.
0.4

0.2
f/8
f/3,5
0
0 10 20 30
Image height [mm]

DISTORTION 1
Distortion [%]

Infinity setting
0

When images are imported to Phocus, distortion is

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automatically removed.

-2
0 10 20 30
Image height [mm]
200903 - HC 50-II - V8 EN

Specification subject to change without notice. www.hasselblad.com