A week with my Hasselblad 500C

[dave lackey]

Just focus on the image, and remember you only have 12 frames per film. This is going to improve your photography really fast.

20130406 by marek fogiel, on Flickr

Marek,

You always surprise me with something cool. This photo and others keep me interested in a Hassy. Maybe one day, but I have no knowledge of them, yet. Much research to do that is why I am following this thread this morning.😀

 

[ray*j*gun]

Beautiful video Richard. Interesting focus on photography. Thank you for sharing it.

 

[FujiLove]

many thanks, how are you finding your hasselblad

Well, I've only had the chance to shoot one roll through it, but have done a great deal of 'fondling'! It's certainly a beautiful thing to just have around. I find myself continually opening up the finder, framing things around the house and taking dry shots.

I'm particularly taken with the shutter sound. I owned a bronica SQ a while ago and hated the shutter noise, which made me jump out of my skin every time a took a photo. I expected the blad to be the same, but it's actually very different which is a relief.

I've just purchased a set of Op-Tech connectors so I can use the strap I already own. Next I need a step-up ring so I can attach the Lee filter ring I bought for a different system. And then there's the question of a bag...

So yes, really pleased with it so far. I'm taking it to Iceland soon, so it will be getting plenty of use.

 

[ChrisLivsey]

Just a mild note of dissent in response to the prism lovers, each to his/her own but I find after many years of using the WLF that I don't take the same images with a prism attached. I vastly prefer a chimney finder, looking down into the camera just seems "right", perverse to say a prism makes it like an SLR because it is one but it does change the height you shoot from and does change the look, just IMHO not trying for converts just a different POV.
Having said that I do enjoy the H and don't have the WLF but it's a very different beast you can run the classic lenses though a great redeeming feature.

 

[tocalosh]

Every time I watch a video of Michael Kenna at work I want to go out and make photos! I'm not really a landscape photographer, I just love the way he works, slowly reducing the number of elements in his field of view untill he has a very minimalist composition. I think it's an approach that coulde be used in other fields of photography, such as portraiture.

 

[raid]

Yeah, I got reminded of when I would have a camera attached to a Gitzo tripod at some remote location during some cold winter. Those times are gone for me. I am married with children and a job that requires me to be here.

 

[mcfingon]

A Blad is more familiar to me with a waist-level finder. It's also more compact that way. I used to carry the 500C I had on a motorbike that way. Picture of my current 500CM.

 

[lxmike]

A Blad is more familiar to me with a waist-level finder. It's also more compact that way. I used to carry the 500C I had on a motorbike that way. Picture of my current 500CM.

very nice😎

 

[lxmike]

Well, I've only had the chance to shoot one roll through it, but have done a great deal of 'fondling'! It's certainly a beautiful thing to just have around. I find myself continually opening up the finder, framing things around the house and taking dry shots.

I'm particularly taken with the shutter sound. I owned a bronica SQ a while ago and hated the shutter noise, which made me jump out of my skin every time a took a photo. I expected the blad to be the same, but it's actually very different which is a relief.

I've just purchased a set of Op-Tech connectors so I can use the strap I already own. Next I need a step-up ring so I can attach the Lee filter ring I bought for a different system. And then there's the question of a bag...

So yes, really pleased with it so far. I'm taking it to Iceland soon, so it will be getting plenty of use.

glad your enjoying your blad🙂

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

If you are going to shoot film, it's hard to do better than a 'blad. The quality of the glass is amazing. Just don't forget your dark slide!

Local Pageant hired some New York photograptachers to shoot their pageant back in the day (I'm in Texas). They got here with a brace of 'blads, dozens of empty backs, lots of film...and no dark slides. Sure was glad I wasn't them.

With a lot of film that is inconvenient! But it's quite OK to remove the insert from the magazine whether it is fitted to a body or not. Regardless of whether the dark slide is installed. In fact, if you are on the street it is possibly the easiest way to change the film in a Hassy with one magazine, as you can leave it attached to the body and do not need the third hand to hold it, while the other two are engaged in threading the film onto the insert. 😉 In their shoes I would have done the best I could with one film at a time in each of the backs attached to their bodies.

Of course if you have a couple of Hasselblad bodies without magazines attached, and no dark slides at all, that is more of a problem. You'd need to devise a way of temporarily defeating the interlock in a back, to actually fit it to a body.
Cheers,
Brett