Hasselblad 45mm f/4 (XPan)
Hasselblad · XPan · 1998
Also known as: Hasselblad 45mm f/4 · XPan 45mm · Fujinon TX 45mm · Super EBC Fujinon TX 45mm f/4
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hasselblad badge | XPan | 1998–2006 | — | — |
| Fujinon TX (Japanese market) | XPan | 1998–2006 | — | — |
How to tell them apart
Hasselblad badge:
- Engraved Hasselblad; catalogue number 24015
Fujinon TX (Japanese market):
- Engraved SUPER EBC FUJINON TX 45mm — the same lens under Fujifilm's badge, sold in Japan alongside the TX-1 and TX-2 bodies
- Fujinon TX (Japanese market): Discontinued November 2006, as the Hasselblad-badged lens was.
Specifications
- Construction
- 8 elements / 6 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4–f/22
- Min. focus
- 0.7 m
- Weight
- 235 g
- Filter
- 49 mm
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- Super EBC multicoating
What reviewers say
- Gabriel Binder (The Codex, Blue Moon Camera), 45mm vs 90mm (blog) — "Remarkably sharp and distortion-free" on XP2 test rolls: "the 45mm easily captures an entire block, its greater vertical angle of view creating an atmospheric quality." Depth of field is so deep that selective focus is nearly impossible.
- Film Reasons (blog) — "Every photographer has a tool that feels like home": minimal distortion at what is a 24mm- equivalent width in panorama mode, smooth focus with the right resistance, and compact enough to keep the XPan in a shoulder bag across the Philippines, Japan, Norway and Peru. The hood is inadequate against light near the frame edge, and 45mm sometimes feels long.
Optical formula
History
The 45mm is the lens the XPan was designed around, and the one that makes the camera’s argument. On 35mm film it is a normal lens; switched to panoramic it covers a 24×65mm frame with a 74.4° diagonal field, which is the angle of a moderate wide-angle on a full frame. One body, one lens, two quite different pictures.
Fujifilm’s own account of the project, published in its research journal in 2000, prints the construction as eight elements in six groups and describes the design as a front-rear symmetrical type — a near-symmetric arrangement about the iris, with a cemented doublet on each side. Hasselblad’s lens brochure of October 1999 prints the same figure and the same cross-section. The two documents were produced by the two companies that split the work: Fujifilm built the camera and the lenses at Hasselblad’s specification, and sold the identical hardware in Japan as the TX-1 and the Super EBC Fujinon TX 45mm.
The measured focal length is 45.0mm and the maximum aperture f/4, stopping to f/22; it focuses to 0.7m, takes 49mm filters and weighs 235g. Coverage is the whole point and the whole difficulty: a lens that fills 24×65mm has to work far out into the corners, and the price of that is light falloff at the edges of the panoramic frame. Hasselblad sold a centre filter to even it out, which costs two stops and is the reason XPan users talk about the 45mm and its filter as a single object.
What is not documented anywhere consulted is production: neither Hasselblad nor Fujifilm published how many were made, in either badge. Both were discontinued in November 2006, when the XPan II and TX-2 ended.
This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.
Example photos
Sample photo wanted — shot with a Hasselblad 45mm f/4 (XPan)? We'd love to feature it (with credit).
Live listings
Asking price, USD: a median of $7,700 across 9 fixed-price listings on 2026-09-11 (middle half $4,700–$9,900). Tracked since 2026-09-06, 2 days: unchanged from $7,700.
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| Date | Median | Middle half | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | $7,700 | $4,700–$9,900 | 9 |
| 2026-09-06 | $7,700 | $4,700–$9,900 | 9 |
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