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Hasselblad 500C Review

Ok, here’s a test of the vlog format!

I made a few minor errors in the video that I should probably correct (stage fright);

-Later Hasselblad 200 series cameras DO NOT take the same C/CF/CFi lenses as the 500 series cameras (not sure if I made this clear). This is due to the fact that the 500 series use Compur leaf shutters inside the lenses, while the 200 cameras make use of a focal plane shutter. I believe the 2000 series are compatible with the CF lenses though.

-AFAIK, later Hasselblad 500 series cameras are fully backwards compatible with all C lenses.

-I made a slight hiccup when talking about the interchangeable screens; option to swap out the screens came with the 500C/M, the descendant of my 500C.

-IT’S CALLED A DARK SLIDE! The word just decided to just float out of my brain.

-You can determine the age of a Hasselblad camera by reading off the first two letters of the serial number. You can check out how that works here.

I’m not saying that the only way is Hasselblad; I took a long time to look around medium format options (I start to mention this at the end of the video but ran out of time), and the problem I did come up with is that it can be very difficult to single out significant advantages between systems. In some respects I did buy the Hassy down to kudos, but I know I’d have regretted buying anything else. I was sorely tempted by both the Bronica SQ-A and the Rollei 6001, but I thought that the build was better than the SQ-A and cheaper to fix/upgrade than the very expensive Rollei’s.

I hope this was mildly informative, and more entertaining than a block of text :P

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Comments on: "Hasselblad 500C Review" (1)

  1. All leaf shutter lenses, i.e. all the lenses used on the 500-series cameras, indeed are (!) compatible with the 200-series cameras (with the exception of te 202FA).
    With leaf shutter lenses on a 200-series body, you have a choice of what shutter to use, the one in the camera or the one in the lens.

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