Wide Angle Lens Envy - Hasselblad XCD 25V Lens Review With the X2D Medium Format Camera

My Photo Book: https://www.fototripper.com/chasing-awe-landscape-photography-book-gavin-hardcastle/ Hasselblad sent their new XCD 25V wide-angle prime lens over for a review, but they didn't send it to me! I'm not gonna lie; my ego is bruised. With the offer of some toffee popcorn, I quickly relieve Amanda of the burden of doing a lens review in a chance to show off my astrophotography prowess. We head to the beach to test the limits of the Hasselblad XCD 25V to see how it copes with a dark sky landscape. The results are fascinating. With a bit of pixel peeping, we can see how this wide-angle lens performs at 10" exposures, but I'm curious how it handles a one-hour exposure. Why? Because I can! I explain three methods of focusing on the stars, and Hasselblad has a unique method that's supposed to work every time. Does it work? We also went to the forest to see how a wide-angle prime lens with an f/2.5 aperture renders its bokeh. If you've always wanted to see Amanada's photography in action, here's your chance. Of course, no bokeh test is complete without a shot of Leo posing for the camera. Which of the three lens-focusing methods do I prefer, and what does my face look like at 2 AM? How did my one-hour astrophotography exposure turn out, and did you hear me correctly when I said, "Book plug"? There's really only one way to find out. VIDEO CHAPTERS: 🔘Hasselblad XCD 25V Arrives: 0:00 🔘How This Lens Works: 1:15 🔘Focusing The XCD 25V To Infinity: 2:31 🔘We Get An Early Night: 4:55 🔘Driving To Meat Cove: 6:14 🔘Best Astrophotography Camera Settings: 8:09 🔘My Astrophotography Shot With the XCD 25V: 9:35 🔘Hasselblad X2D Raw Files With XCD 25V Prime Lens at f/2.5: 10:10 🔘Hasselblad X2D Raw Files With XCD 25V Prime Lens at f/3.2: 11:32 🔘Spherical Aberration & Vignetting: 12:36 🔘One Hour Exposure With XCD 25V Prime Lens: 13:35 🔘Bokeh Test With XCD 25V Prime Lens: 15:18 🔘My One Problem With XCD 25V Prime Lens: 16:54 🔘Fototripper Bloopers: 18:03 Thanks for watching Gavin Hardcastle - Fototripper Affiliate Links To Items In This Video: Hasselblad X2D Camera: https://amzn.to/43Qt29x My Hardback Book: https://www.fototripper.com/chasing-awe-landscape-photography-book-gavin-hardcastle/ My Ebook: https://www.fototripper.com/chasing-awe-ebook/ Get 10% Off with FOTOTRIPPER10 at Get 10% Off with FOTOTRIPPER10 at https://l.skylum.com/luminar-neo-fototripper Join My Newsletter: https://www.fototripper.com/newsletter/ My Home Renovation Channel: https://youtu.be/U7OS9Mkg2dI Get 20% Off Fotospeed Paper with coupon code GAVIN20 https://www.cybersportphoto.com/?aff=4 Music by Epidemic Sound http://share.epidemicsound.com/vwCTJ Business: https://www.fototripper.com/contact-us/ My Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fototripper My Rinsedagram: https://www.instagram.com/fototripper Find me on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fototripper #landscapephotography #XCD25V #hasselblad