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 (expand)

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

Schematic cross-section drawn for this site from official Hasselblad XPan lens brochure (1999) — 8 elements in 6 groups; curvatures and spacing stylized. — Drawn for this site

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.

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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 45mm f/4 (XPan)? We'd love to feature it (with credit).

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $4,800 across 12 fixed-price listings on 2026-10-19 (middle half $2,000–$7,700). Tracked since 2026-09-06, 9 days: down 38% from $7,700.

By day

Date	Median	Middle half	Listings
2026-10-19	$4,800	$2,000–$7,700	12
2026-10-18	$5,000	$2,100–$8,300	13
2026-10-17	$5,000	$2,100–$8,300	13
2026-10-16	$4,800	$2,000–$7,700	12
2026-10-15	$5,000	$2,000–$7,700	11
2026-09-21	$7,500	$2,100–$9,500	10
2026-09-18	$7,500	$2,100–$9,500	10
2026-09-11	$7,700	$4,700–$9,900	9
2026-09-06	$7,700	$4,700–$9,900	9

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

Hasselblad Xpan 45mm f/4 camera lens — $1,300.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad NEW
hasselblad xpan 4/45mm lens — $1,500.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad 45mm F4 Wide Angle Prime Lens for XPAN I or II UK Seller & Warranty! — £1,330.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan 45mm f/4 F4 Lens for XPan X-Pan 2 Rangefinder Camera, Boxed — A$2,977.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Fujifilm Super EBC Fujinon TX-2 45mm f/4 Manual Lens Hasselblad XPan Mint++ — $1,999.00 · eBay
Fujifilm Super EBC Fujinon 45mm f/4 Lens for TX-1 TX-2 XPan Almost Unused w/ Box — $2,149.49 · eBay NEW
Hasselblad XPan 35mm Rangefinder Film Camera & 45mm f4 Lens — £2,499.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan + 45mm f/4.0 - goed — €3,199.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan Panorama Filmkamera mit 45mm f/4 Objektiv — €3,990.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan with 45mm f4 — DKK 30,000.00 · One Of Many Cameras · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad X-Pan l Medium Format Film Camera With 45mm F/4 Lens xpan #11SV23510 — HK$35,800.00 · Meteor (HK) Ltd (Meteor · Leica) · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan Kit With 45mm f/4 lens — $4,700.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan Panoramic Film Camera With 45mm f/4 Lens — $4,795.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan Panoramic Film Camera With 45mm f/4 Lens (690 Exposures) — $4,995.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan + 45mm f/4 Lens | Recently Serviced | Film Tested — A$8,995.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad XPan II with Lens 45mm f/4 — HK$51,800.00 · Panda Camera · likely Hasselblad
Hasselblad Xpan II 2 35mm Panorama Rangefinder Film Camera with 45mm F4 Lens Kit — £5,499.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
[NEAR MINT] Fujifilm TX-2 Camera Super EBC Fujinon 45mm F4 Lens Hasselblad X-PAN — $7,239.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
🟢Boxed🟢 Hasselblad XPan Black 35mm Film Camera 45mm f/4 Lens from Japan 2298 — $7,700.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
CLA'd [ MINT ] Fujifilm TX-2 Film Camera Hasselblad Xpan II + 45mm f4 from JAPAN — $9,499.99 · eBay · likely Hasselblad

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⏯️ Rare [MINT Box CT: 064] Hasselblad XPan X-Pan Camera Body 45mm F4 Lens JAPAN — $10,000.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
【 MINT in Box 】 Hasselblad Xpan 35mm Film Camera Body + 45mm f/4 Lens From Japan — $10,000.00 · eBay · likely Hasselblad
箱付き　HASSELBLAD ハッセルブラッド XPan 45mm f/4 レンジファインダーフィルムカメラ FUJIFILM TX-1 TX-2 2298 — from ¥850,000 · Yahoo! Auctions Japan · auction 2026-10-25 · likely Hasselblad
ハッセルブラッド/hasselblad xpan 富士tx 45mm F4レンズに適用原産フード — from ¥56,551 · Yahoo! Auctions Japan · auction 2026-10-26 · likely Hasselblad
【新品】Hasselblad/ハッセル 54406ブラックフード Xpan 45mm/90mmレンズ適用 — from ¥54,890 · Yahoo! Auctions Japan · auction 2026-10-26 · likely Hasselblad

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