Hasselblad rangefinder screen

I still don't get it ... anyway, if I appeared to be trolling, I apologize ...

To me it was a simple question. I actually started with the Hassy, so the Leica's viewfinder was nothing new to me when I got it, and pleased it was similar. My only early frustrations was forgetting to remove the darn lens cap ...


Solinar said:
To troll or not to troll, that is only question at this point.
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Let me look for it again, it was just a short glance while googling for more info regarding my own question here ... it is the only one that said it's not, all the rest say it's a rangefinder. But not supposed to be confused as a 35mm rangefinder, but first and foremost a MF camera.

sjw617 said:
What site would say that??

Steve
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The opening sentence in the paragraph about the Xpan is just plain BS. Of course it is a rangefinder, working with beam splitters and focusing patch. The only difference to a Leica or any other RF is the ability to shoot panoramas.
 
I should not have posted this question. Now I learned there is an Xpan, sheesh ...

But I'll take in all factors ... if I buy one, no lunch for a year, wife will kill me and I'll come home and see that she sold them all for $200 - the price I claimed they cost being antiques, etc.

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If what you are trying to say is a Hasselblad can be used to estimate object distance by focusing and reading the distance off the focus scale, then yes, you can determine object distance that way. But "rangefinder" is a method of determining object distance and not the method the Hasselbled is using. you could also use a tape measure, but I don't think you would claim a tape measure is a rangefinder? I guess we are getting confused by the mechanism and result.
 
Yes, to estimate distance using a COUPLED rangefinder type of focusing, getting images in line with each other. And once the images are in line with each other, it is exactly, exactly, the same distance as determined by a real rangefinder, at any aperture. Pretty cool then for a camera that is not a rangefinder and just using mirrors. This however led to the confusion, plus the fact that Hasselblad calls their focusing screen a Split-Image Rangefinder - http://www.calumetphoto.com/item/HA3244.html.

This is for my particular configuration at least, since it may be different with others, as explained in the other posts here since theirs go dark and affected by aperture settings, and mine doesn't. It probably is because of the PME-45 viewfinder I use which is the latest, although just recently discontinued, or maybe the camera model - still waiting for Hasselblad's reply. This is why I asked if others had the same configuration.

If it did go dark at different apertures, I would have sold it a long time ago, like I am selling my Yashica GSNs I bought 2 weeks ago after I change their light seals, I can't stand the dark viewfinder (great pictures, though, but not my type of viewfinder).

Well, thanks to all for all the clarification here. It certainly is not a rangefinder in terms of mechanism, I accept that. There really is more to a real rangefinder than just combining images in a viewfinder and getting the distance.

BTW, finder, that is a great picture in your avatar ...



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