Hasselblad Users - Show us your Cameras!

Greyscale, your 1000f took me back to my mentor, John Brooks, for many years a high end portrait photographer in Boston, MA, USA
He had one camera...1000f or 1600f, I forget which.
and one lens, the 180 Olympic Sonnar.

He had no lights....used nothing but window light from his northern exposure on Boston's tony Newbury Street.
 
My Hasselbladski! Sorry, just couldn't resist. :)

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sara said:
Here is my babyyyy, although I think I need to get it CLA'd soon. The focusing ring is a little difficult to turn.

500c/m
I don't think I would trust another medium format camera - it was the first one I learnt how to use, and it will be the last.

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Beautiful.., what year is this camera, Sara?
 
As a thought after seeing these cameras, they are pure art that just happen to work perfectly as picture-taking machines...

Is anyone using their camera(s) this weekend for a little exercise?:angel:
 
dave lackey said:
As a thought after seeing these cameras, they are pure art that just happen to work perfectly as picture-taking machines...

Is anyone using their camera(s) this weekend for a little exercise?:angel:
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Yes, but more likely the Polaroid SLR670a or Leica M-D because I'm going up to the city for walk then an exhibit reception. I only rarely take the Hasselblads out without a tripod and a specific photographic effort in mind.

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Godfrey said:
Yes, but more likely the Polaroid SLR670a or Leica M-D because I'm going up to the city for walk then an exhibit reception. I only rarely take the Hasselblads out without a tripod and a specific photographic effort in mind.

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Cool!:)

This is a different world with so much to learn about the Blads. The sheer beauty makes it fun!:)
 
My 500CM

walk around setup
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setup I use for portraits
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Was going to bring an instant camera with me this weekend, but now I think I'll put a roll of Portra through the HB
 
Does anyone here have the original CFV-16 Digital Back?
I would like to get one eventually (even though ASA 100 is limiting)
Hard to get 'cause interest in high.........

Recommended by Hasselblad for the 500 series

P1210497_cfv16 by Charles Chu, on Flickr
 
I'd like to get a CFV-50c, but have been holding back because I'm not entirely sure how much I'd use it. Spending $7K to $10K for a digital back is a pretty hefty commitment, I want to be sure that I'll get the capability/advantage I want from it. I've seen this back available second-hand for as low as $6500 once in a blue moon, but that's still pretty expensive.

Personally, I wouldn't go with an older back. There's little real benefit/advantage to the older backs for me—the Leica SL with the range of lenses I have for it already outstrips their performance, for all intents and purposes. If I want square format to emulate Hasselblad, the output is already 16Mpixel. So the draw to me is the larger format with equivalently higher pixel resolution where a square format crop will be 37 Mpixel and the dynamics of the image (FoV/DoF relationships) will be closer to medium format film.

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(Also, my 'fast' scanning methodology nets me a 16 Mpixel square image from 6x6 film already, and much more resolution if I go to a flatbed or film scanner.)
 
Here is part of the system you don't see every day. Very compact. I am a view camera user, so I am used to the zen-like slowness of single exposures.

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