I haven’t taken pictures in a long time. Giving a run at adapted lenses on the GFX has given my interest a shot in the arm. These images were shot with the old Hasselblad 60mm C lens, the Synchro Compur type. I have always enjoyed this lens for its compact size and ease of use. For this lens I used the Metabones SpeedBooster adapter. It differs from the Novoflex Pentax adapter in that the Metabones has glass inside of the adapter. It magically performs some additional adaptation I can’t bother to understand. The adapter and lens work beautifully, coupled with the Fuji’s fantastic focus peaking – this feels like focus cheating, and I am happy to say focusing was super accurate, more so than with the Novoflex adapter. The colors from the lens combination, shot in RAW then exported as .jpg are marvelous. Aside from the “Stop Ahead” image, I did nominal editing aside from lifting shadows and increasing exposure slightly, since I tend to underexpose GFX images. For stop ahead, the light temperature changed and I had to fiddle slightly with the white balance and tint – the colors are very intense in that image, almost too much, and somewhere along the line it seems to have sharpened (the sky) – there was so much going on post processing left me befuddled. A downside is this adapter is quite heavy but not uncomfortably so. The adapter is very well built, made entirely of metal, with a twisting mechanism to secure the lens to it. I must say, I am impressed and happy.
