Hasselblad 90mm f/4 (XPan)

Hasselblad · XPan · 1998

Also known as: Hasselblad 90mm f/4 · XPan 90mm · Fujinon TX 90mm · Super EBC Fujinon TX 90mm 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 (expand)

Hasselblad badge:

Engraved Hasselblad; catalogue number 24019

Fujinon TX (Japanese market):

Engraved SUPER EBC FUJINON TX 90mm — 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: 9 elements / 7 groups
Aperture range: f/4–f/22
Min. focus: 1 m
Weight: 365 g
Filter: 49 mm
Country: Japan
Coating: Super EBC multicoating

What reviewers say

Gabriel Binder (The Codex, Blue Moon Camera), 45mm vs 90mm (blog) — "An essential 'second standard' lens for the XPan system": at the same aperture and distance its depth of field is far shallower than the 45's, giving a plasticity the wide cannot. About twice the length of the 45, so less of a walk-around.
Film Reasons (blog) — "Perhaps the sharpest of all" the XPan lenses, with no visible distortion or colour fringing, and separation from the background that belies f/4 on the wide negative. The rangefinder cannot show the compression, so backgrounds are a guess, and the camera feels too large with it mounted.

Optical formula

Schematic cross-section drawn for this site from official Hasselblad XPan lens brochure (1999) — 9 elements in 7 groups; curvatures and spacing stylized. — Drawn for this site

History

The 90mm is the XPan’s long lens, which on the panoramic frame means something closer to a normal one: 41.8° across the 24×65mm diagonal, against 27° on a conventional 35mm frame. It was announced with the 45mm in September 1998 and was one of the two lenses the system launched with.

Fujifilm’s development report for the TX-1 gives the construction as nine elements in seven groups and shows a telephoto-type layout, with the front group carrying the focusing movement; Hasselblad’s 1999 brochure prints the same count and the same section. The measured focal length is 89.6mm, the aperture range f/4 to f/22, minimum focus 1.0m, filter thread 49mm — shared with the 45mm — and the weight 365g.

Because the XPan’s rangefinder base is fixed and its finder shows framelines rather than a magnified patch, the 90mm is the lens at which the camera’s focusing accuracy is worked hardest. Reviewers who use it in the panoramic mode tend to describe it as a portrait and landscape-detail lens rather than a reportage one, which is a comment on the finder as much as the optics.

As with every XPan lens, no production figure has been published in either badge, and the Japanese-market Super EBC Fujinon TX 90mm is the same lens with a different engraving. Both ended in November 2006.

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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 90mm f/4 (XPan)? We'd love to feature it (with credit).

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $930 across 3 fixed-price listings on 2026-09-11 (middle half $78–$930). Tracked since 2026-09-06, 2 days: unchanged from $930.

By day

Date	Median	Middle half	Listings
2026-09-11	$930	$78–$930	3
2026-09-06	$930	$78–$930	3

Asking prices from the listings scanned, not sales; junk-flagged rows and auction lots excluded; other currencies are not converted.

Hasselblad XPan 90mm f4 Objektiv — £630.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan 90mm f/4 Lens for XPan Panoramic Film Camera — £677.95 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan 90mm f/4 Lens + Case — £1,600.02 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan 4/90mm 4/45 Lens Bubble Case Exc+++ See My Full Store — $78.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan 90mm f/4 Lens for XPan Panoramic Film Camera — $925.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Fujifilm Super-EBC Fujinon 90mm f/4 Lens for Fujifilm TX-1, Hasselblad XPan — $1,150.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan 90mm f4 - RENTAL ONLY — DKK 200.00 · One Of Many Cameras · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan 90mm f4 — DKK 7,000.00 · One Of Many Cameras · likely Hasselblad
HASSELBLAD 90MM F4 XPAN / XPAN II LENS — HK$8,900.00 · Panda Camera · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad 90mm f/4 4/90 Lens for XPAN I II Film Camera — HK$9,500.00 · Panda Camera · likely Hasselblad

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