A Hasselblad, more than 40 years after first looking.

hap said:
that's very interesting Vince. the idea of a1000F is appealing. However, Bronica EC TL also appeals.
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Oh dear. Is there something in the air? Shawn has also caught the Bronica bug, and it may be a terminal case. I'm chronically ill with it myself.
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Oh dear. Is there something in the air? Shawn has also caught the Bronica bug, and it may be a terminal case. I'm chronically ill with it myself.
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The Bronica bug is a tough one to overcome, Hasselblad 1000f and 1600f seem to be my current affliction. I think the smarter money is on the Bronica, but I happen to have both so I’m not sure what that says.
 
Why bother with a painfully slow f/2.8 Olympia Sonnar.....


12.5cm f:2 Schneider-Göttingen1 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr


12.5cm f:2 Schneider-Göttingen2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

Yep it's a bit of a beast alright. It just showed up in the mail so I haven't had a chance to put it through its paces. All in due time, my friends. All in due time.

It's definitely a Wartime or pre-Wartime lens, so it's been adapted to fit the 1000f/1600f. I've seen this lens on the Fritz Völk Handkammer 12,5 7x9 surveillance cameras (Luftwaffe), so it's possible that it came from one of these cameras. Doesn't have an 'FL' number, but then again with any photo I've seen online of those cameras, none of the lenses had 'FL' numbers either. I did take a chance on a Schneider-Göttingen red filter that must have come from one of these camera kits (and it does have an 'FL' number) in the hopes that it might fit. We'll see! In any case, this lens is in really nice shape -- only issue with it is that it focuses past infinity. At the infinity setting it's totally sharp, but I'm not sure if by it focusing pas infinity, I'm losing some of the lens's close-focusing at the other end. Anyone know the answer to that?

It's a super-duper lens and likely very scarce in a 1000f/1600f mount. If only this lens could talk....
 
Very Cool Vince! Mucho Rare too 🙂

Makiflex Standard BandL Super Cinephor Linhof Graflex Back by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is my second Makiflex Standard, bought from a shoppe in Vienna. It has been heavily, professionally modified. Note the custom Side Handle. The Front Standard is HEAVILY MODIFIED, note the precision machine werk. Quite a bit of the camera has been removed! Right under the lens is a LENS SWING MECHANISM, which has a ball detent (NICE) and swings the front standard on the optical axis of the lens. Quite a bit of Swing is possible, seems very sturdy and built to last. The cool thing about the Standard Makiflex, is that the inside throat is more spacious, and has no cables getting ini the way of BEEG lens. This boat anchor of a lens, is a Bausch&Lomb Super Cinephor, 159.1mm F2.0, which is outrageously fast. It looks great I think on this camera, and it will get some use this Spring, I can tell you. It's going to be FUN. This is a olde lens meant for 70mm and 35mm Cinema Projection, like in a commercial theatre. Cool that it fits the Standard, but won't fit my Automatic Makiflex, for the above reasons. So this lens is an Uber Speed Light Sucker, great that I can swing the front, say like, when doing a portrait or still life. On the back is the Makiflex 4x5 Holder that takes Linhof Plate Holders, or Graflex Graphic Holders, with the flip of a couple of switches top and bottom. Linhof Holders are much thicker, and can also take planfilm or glass plates. They are mucho Deluxe 🙂
 
That's a cool lens @Vince Lupo. Many of the aerial lenses were fixed focus and without aperture: it's nice to see one fully adapted.

Not sure about the past infinity issue... you'd probably have to check the helicoid stops?
 
OlivierAOP said:
That's a cool lens @Vince Lupo. Many of the aerial lenses were fixed focus and without aperture: it's nice to see one fully adapted.

Not sure about the past infinity issue... you'd probably have to check the helicoid stops?
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You may be right about the infinity stop on the helicoid - adjusting it is beyond my capabilities so I’ll send it to Jim for him to look at. Everything is focusing correctly and the lens is in really great shape, it’s just that one thing that’s off.

I’m pretty sure this lens had an adjustable aperture on the Handkammer, at least I think I noticed aperture adjustments on the top of the barrel housing in photos of that camera.
 
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New to me Hasselblad CFV16 Digital back by Nokton48, on Flickr

I've wanted this CFV16 Hasselblad Digital Back for over twenty years. This one came along at a decent price and now it's mine.
Fat Pixels and Beautiful Colors, this is a coveted Hasselblad item. And it matches up perfectly to my 500C/M and 500 EL/M bodies.
Kinda like shooting Kodachrome.
 
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Vince Lupo said:
I'm not sure if by it focusing pas infinity, I'm losing some of the lens's close-focusing at the other end. Anyone know the answer to that?
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Within the limits of the focus helicoid, I'd say "probably", but what a curious piece! Wondering if bulk of the lens barrel was originally part of something else entirely.
 
JeffS7444 said:
Within the limits of the focus helicoid, I'd say "probably", but what a curious piece! Wondering if bulk of the lens barrel was originally part of something else entirely.
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I’ve seen this lens elsewhere online but in a different mount. The barrel and aperture ring however are the same, so it may have been something repurposed by Schneider themselves.
 
Nokton48 said:
New to me Hasselblad CFV16 Digital back by Nokton48, on Flickr

I've wanted this CFV16 Hasselblad Digital Back for over twenty years. This one came along at a decent price and now it's mine.
Fat Pixels and Beautiful Colors, this is a coveted Hasselblad item. And it matches up perfectly to my 500C/M and 500 EL/M bodies.
Kinda like shooting Kodachrome.
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I’ll be interested to see some images from this back.

I’ve thought about what it might take for me to ‘upgrade’ my CFV II 50C back, and I think the only thing would be if they came out with a full-frame (58x58) sized sensor. Merely making the 33x44 sensor 100mp (as in the X2D) isn’t going to do it for me.
 
By the way I have V CT* Black matching lenses, in 30mm Fishy, 40mmT*, 60mmT*, 80mmT*, 100mm T*, 135mm BellowsT*, and 350mm Non-T*. Phocus is recommended (Easy Peasy Corrections), I know NOTHING. A branch of Photography I know NOTHING about, I am an Analogue Guy almost exclusively. The CFV16 Digital Back will WAKE UP my "Blads. BTW I own about 70% of what they made for these, all the same era/vintage.
But not the Original Digital Back for the 500 Series. Very few of these ever advertised, people KEEP this item. People love this thing for a reason.

It can also be used in the studio with my Sinar Normas.
 
Not sure what the difference is between the Kreuznach Xenons and the Göttingen versions. Mine is definitely pre-War/Wartime and were used in that Fritz Völk Handkammer hk12,5 aerial camera. My thought (because I've seen a number of them in this similar barrel, albeit in different mounts) is that Schneider repurposed/rebarreled these lenses after the War. Who knows, I could be very wrong about that - maybe I should ask Schneider!

Here’s a revised (better?) version of a shot I posted a couple of days ago from the Xenon lens. Not bad for f/2.


Riley and Her Leaf #2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
 
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