🟡 HASSELBLAD.. Just shoot it like a Leica!
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- After struggling for years I had a lightbulb moment! Hasselblad 501c + Kodak Ektar in Vegas
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How to focus a Hasselblad easier? Get a Hasselblad Acute Matte focus screen (1) Get a Hasselblad 45 degrees prism finder (2) and the zone focus a Hasselblad! My new favourite. These photos are a Hasselblad 501c + 120 Kodak Ektar 100 at night and during the day (expired film*)
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After struggling for years I finally had a lightbulb moment! Hasselblad + Kodak Ektar in Vegas
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Chrome back on a black camera? YOU MONSTER!!!!!
Ha sorry, I have multiple backs, some are A16
The image in a WLF is reversed left to right, accurate focus is possible with the magnifier. To get a 10"x8" print from a Hasselblad negative, the section is 55mm x 44mm. From a 35mm negative it's 30mm x 24mm. So to get equivalent focal lengths, the ratio is 11:6. I ALWAYS have a strap on my cameras, Hasselblad or Canon, and that is ALWAYS around my neck, unless the camera is on a tripod or a studio stand. Note that there are quick-focus handles available for Hasselblad lenses; and the old bodies can be quickly attached to / detached from a tripod fitted with a Hasselblad quick-release clamp - their equivalent of Arca Swiss.
Thanks Paul! Yes I have a Hassy strap and can’t wait to do some nice darkroom prints with the images this winter.
Hello Matt, Just saying I have been a Hasselblad shooter/owner and love from the 1980's. I to love their simplicity and the results that you can achieve whit there awesome glass and the larger film for mat. Manly shot fashion, calendar with some lovation work back in the 90's. Now I just loving they're X2D cameras.
Thanks John, great stuff!
Hi Matt! Thank you for sharing your Las Vegas photos--like me, you are your own worst critic! I like your Las Vegas photos & that's coming from someone who lived in Henderson for 8 years. All the Best,
Thank you, very kind!
I love anything mid-century. Las Vegas is one place I really want to visit.
Yes I like to find the older stuff wherever I go. If my 35mm shots are decent I’ll make a follow up video.
Thanks for the video.
Zone focusing is a wonderful skill to have. I used it frequently when shooting weddings with medium format and small format film cameras.
Thanks, yes I was such a late adopter but I love it now!
Hey Matt
I love the composition and colours
Very interesting video
Many thanks Ron
Thanks Ron!
Interesting video and tips.
Love the colors of those shots.
Yeah man zone focussing, bet Buzz Aldrin used that too and did not take off his helmet whilst focussing on Neil Armstrong on the moon hehehe.
Thanks for sharing
Haha great point Rob .. and thanks for the emails 🙏🏻
Hasselblad Moon cameras didn't have a viewfinder nor focusing device
Brilliant, Matt! Yes, zone focus the bugger and be done with it. Upon reflection all great ideas seem simple. I have tried zone focus with Aperture Priority on the X2D with mixed results which means I set it up wrong. On Full Auto everything is wide open and too shallow field depth. I'll get it sorted. Nevertheless I do get well focused and exposed images but not of your quality which is why I keep following you. Thanks for all the good advice so generously given. Cheers.
Thanks Sandy, you’ll get there!
We need more Hasselblad videos! 😀
Thanks! The next is the same trip (Vegas) but on 35mm. I’m sure I’ll do more in future with the Hassy. See my old vids too.
Nice pics ! I purchased a used 500 CM years ago when prices first dropped. Don't recall any focusing difficulties with it. One of the best looking camera lines ever ! I sold it because I was using it for street photography when it's best suited for studio work, imo. I preferred the Pentax 645 with the integrated hand grip in those days for street.
Thanks! I find my H2 faster and easier for model photography but yes there is just something satisfying about these old cameras!
you could have just got a 645 back and grip hasselblad did everything accessory you would want
...re: zone focusing on a Hasselblad, a key advantage with the old C series lenses was the automatic d-o-f indicator. A simple but ingenious device. Oh, and the self-timer too.😬
Interesting! I have the 80c (and CF version), I've have to check, thanks!
I have a chimney finder for my Hasselblad and when I have the time or need to critical focus for me it is easier than the standard waist level finder.
Thanks Sophie, yes those are easier than the WLF, just bigger. I have one somewhere!
Matt, just discovered the work of Vincent Peters. Your portraits and his are very simillair - very artistic !
Thanks! That’s quite a compliment!
I've always wanted a Hasselblad. The closest I came was a Bronica SQ-A. Thanks for this educational video. As always, great pics!
thats like saying i want a rolls but got a ford 😂😂😂😂😂 or for you i wanted brad pitt but got joe pesci!!😂😂😂lol
Thanks Lucy!
The prism finder for the Russian Kiev camera fits and is a fraction of the price.
Correct! I have the Kiev 88 (ARAX-CM) too so I've tried swapping them
one other "focussing tip", the leaf shuttered lenses have a 'stop down' slider (or button on the C lenses); for checking dof, or, in the case of adding to the 200 or 2000 series focal plane bodies (to meter accurately without electrical contact with the metering system); if this is 'active' the lens is at working aperture, eg f11, NOT wide open better for focusing, there are two methods to open up, one (C lenses): to crank the iris ring to max open, aka f2/f4 this 'trips' the system to the re-cocked state; TWO (CB/CF/CF e/CFi): tap the slider on one end, towards the lens' centre, this pulls the slider off a catch holding the stop down in Active mode; to activate, press the end of the slider counter-clockwise from shooting position until you hear it click; or for the C's just press the switch down towards the lens, this activates the stop down.
F/Fe lenses for the focal plane bodies are auto indexing, like the Ai film Nikons, or the newer G series, stop down occurs automatically, via the screw drive in the lens, as there is no leaf shutter to trip in these.
Thanks Andy, great tip!
thanks for this great video, i love shooting my Hassys , my favorite MF cameras. my favorite combo the focal plane body with the FE 50 and FE 110/2
Thanks Marc! I nearly bought that camera a few times in the past!
Like you I find the 45 degree finder easier to focus, the waist level finder is great for composition, you get a bit more detachment.
Yes I totally agree!
but doesn't work for vertical pictures with non square film format backs or digital backs
@@jean-claudemuller3199 Why not?
For landscape photography I use my Mamiya M645 1000s on a tripod. For more casual shooting, I put my 55mm lens on the camera, a 35mm accessory finder in the hot shoe, lock up the mirror, stop down the lens, and shoot using the depth of field scale. The finder shows a view close enough to what the film receives. Works a treat
Great! I have the M645 but I never thought to do that
I loved my Hassies 500 and 500el! I have to say that I prefer my Holleiflex SL. I always used the zone focus method. Waist eve finders are great for shooting stealth shots shooting at a 90deg angle. It's tempting to shoot Vegas in color, but the color can be a distraction. You can be more creative in B and W I feel.
I found my Hassys easier to use but the SL66E more creative. Luckily i shot 35mm too so I’ll try to do a follow up video.
Very grainy days 😀 Btw nice watch 👍
Thanks Thomas! I'll take that compliment thanks!
Smiling, the furthest I've come to get hold of Hassy is that many years ago I bought a package of various photo equipment from a defunct photo shop. In that package was also a grip for Hassy. But the real truth is that I have both the Mamiya 6MF and 7, but of course I want a Hassy, but I am someone who is such a 50/60mm shooter and have never had such a Hasselblad camera with such a lens ended up in front of me when I have been in buying mode. Now, unfortunately, the prices have become so high that I am no longer in buying mode. Thanks for the explanation of the different viewfinders for the Hasselblad.
By the way, I've been looking a bit for 200 series cameras to be able to use the 110 mm f;2.0, but I've realized that it's extremely difficult to hit focus with it, so now I'm just waiting to get a little richer, then I think that I buys a Hasselblad with a completely normal 80 mm f;2.8 as most people prefer, but will probably also hunt for a 60 mm for it. There is something about Hasselblad, the name has almost the same resonance as a Mercedes.
Thanks yes I bet others echo you too! I own the RZ67, 6 and did own the 7. The Hassy is much more fun to use vs. 6&7 if that helps push you over the buying edge! ;)
..and yes 110 too difficult/ too soft wide open. I had the 2.2 HC version for a similar look.
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom Have tied up a little too much money in a rare LF camera, a Carbon Infinity 4x5". If I get the right price for it, together with all the optics, I can buy a reasonable 4x5", but also sell my Mamiya 7 with 43mm. With that money I can buy a GFX and maybe also a Hassy. Like 6x6 and therefore want to keep my Mamiya 6MF, but a Hassy should have been owned once.
I have also for a long time had a philosophy that the optics should be able to be used across all formats, so all the optics I have that cover the GFX format I should also be able to use with my 5D, Nikkor Df and not least m43. Yes, there are old Nikkor beads and T&S optics.
Previously semi-professional, but now only my heart decides what I take pictures of. Gives me such freedom and joy that I don't need one or the other.
Got a CFV 907x 50c II i need to try with my 500c/m
Nice!! Yes you have to :)
the 501C is equipped with an Acute Mate D screen, if not you just got scammed by the vendor !
you cannot compare an old screen from the 60th with a moderne RZ67 ProII screen from 1993
Thanks, yes I bought the D' screen for silly money so I could see to focus some years ago.
@8:32 I like it ! Nice ;)
Thanks George!
Hasselblad 503CX+ Sekonic light meter with infinity focus.
Nice. I was using my 500CM just yesterday
Matt, Have you ever tried a Rollei TLR? Easier to shoot than a Hassleblad, except with no interchangeable lenses, but quality-wise easily as good as a Hasselblad.
Thanks! Yes I have a 3.5 Rolleicord and a other nice TLR. See those videos. (Yes I like the small size too!)
This brought me back some forty years backward 😂....but with Ektachrome, harder to expose than neg ! I never understand why Hasselblad, flipping to digital, didn't keep the body shape, replacing the groung glass by the rear screen making it mirrorless with a 4x4 sensor or bigger if possible. With the waist level viewfinder, no sun reflexion, it would have been perfect and simple. They could still do it using the old lenses style and it would cut the price by 4 at least.
Great! Yes good point, nice idea
Looks good, Matt. How did you meter at night? I've read that one should spot metera bright area and drop it in zone 7 or zone 8. What was your method?
Thanks Greg! Yes I meter for what’s important so at night with neon signs meter tor highlights only. (Go up close to fill the finder/ meter or use a spot meter).
I pretend my old Bronica ETRS is a Hassie! I can’t use it like my Q2, far too heavy. Waist shooting with a Hasselblad, can’t the focus screen be changed for a split screen? Thanks for sharing.
Nice! It’s how you use it that matters. Yes as mentioned in the video split prism screens are a must for me! Especially subjects beyond 1m.
Why didnt Hasselblad make their 645 back portrait layout?
I know! ..or at least have that as an option.
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom I bought the prism finder and its fine, but I still would have liked portrait layout, this is where Mamiya got it right with the rotating back.
@@monsieurgolem3392 I use those too. Agree
I cannot focus a Hasselblad. Hasselblad asked me, to evaluate the new Accumate screen! It was brighter, but still awful.. You want slow, use medium format. I actually hate My Rolleiflex! I get great images! Way better quality than 35mm film.! My results though are super, 3~5 very good shots per roll of 12 exposures! I once shot 220/24 exp and made 23 negatives worth printing large ! I also had film in camera about 18 months! Trying to level the camera and waist level finder, takes so long, dogs pee on your leg. A tree! If you are ready to go there, it's unbeatable! Hasselblad has great lenses. So does Pentax 6x7.. Bravo!
Ha thanks Jason! That’s a lot of keepers! Congrats
I Love my 500 c\m too, but one warning, unlike the title, sometimes you Can't shoot it like a leica!, the lens is a leaf shutter, you MUST cock the camera before removing the lens AND insert the darkslide (to protect the film, as you are removing the shutter too); with a leica the lens just bayonets off, or unscrews!
Also when adding accessories, the thing CLOSEST to the camera goes on FIRST, and comes off LAST, for the above reason, it jams the shutter mechanics, and makes the camera unusable in this state (need to take it for repairs, OR if you have one, to use the tool to unjam it!).
Thanks Andy, yes all valid points!! The extension tube thing confused me in my early days! (When they cock the lens etc.)
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom yes, but it's not that it cocks the lens, it's the fact that the shutter spring is in the lens, so if any other point of the linkage is 'freed' it inevitably (murphy's law) snags the trigger catch on its way off, de-cocking the whole string, so you need the tool to re-cock, so further disassembly can be done. And this only ever happens with the bellows or extension\teleconverter tubes, Not common for just a lens alone, unless you are speaking of body jams which can also be triggered by an eager wind-on for the next frame, causing things to skip, or go off sequence, not finishing the cycle, hence a jam.
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom one other nasty trigger for these body jams is also a timid use of the mirror-up levers, if you don't use if fully, or tap at the wrong time, this can also cause the desynchronisation of things, a 'classic' cause of a body jam.
why would you need or want anything else 😎😎😎😎
Right! :)
Did you change anything with shooting models after this revelation?
Great question, no I still use the "old way" with models. Some lenses I find easier to focus (see), like the 120mm Macro via the prism
Thanks Matt - I also find the 120 Makro easier to focus. With the standard 80 at 2.8 I have so many misses 😢
@@healthid yes I don’t use the 80. 60 is also good + easy
Vegas? Why does anyone want to go to Vegas for street photography?? Sorry for being impertinent but these made up “plastic” artificial places always repelled me, I do not like amusement parks like Disney and whatsoever… anyway, some nice shots!! 😊 as well as some strange vignettes… 😮 and by the way, I use hasselblad for decades and never had a focussing problem. It just came to my mind that sth like that could exist through your video… one should never stop learning! Thanks for that lesson… 🤔👍🏼
Thanks! I was flown to Vegas to teach a Leica workshop so I did some photography in my downtime. Like you I have less interest in "fake cities" BUT the back streets were more interesting. The vignetting was from the lens hood I think. It was the correct hood but that's all I can think of.
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom ah, ok, I see… and yes, those backstreets of some places are really quite interesting. I lived, travelled and photographed in East Africa a lot some years ago and had to travel to Dubai twice … and yes, it was often the same. Away from the main roads & places those cities became (more) interesting.
Always good light!
p.s.: about the vignette - could it be, that the lens hood was not fixed properly? I sometimes struggle a bit with those hoods (80mm, 150&250mm) and always check twice. They tend to sit aslant sometimes. 🤷🏼♂️
"A fat Leica!"
Muahahahahaha!
Haha, hopefully that's not a non-pc statement in 2023!
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom I am cool with the description.
It gave me a good chuckle.
If we took everything as an offence, as most people want us to do, we'd never know the joys of creativity.
I say we continue to take the p***.
Bois un peut de sirop ! Ça rend la voie plus claire !!!! Vraiment insupportable à écouter....😢
Thanks Eric, sorry I’ve tried lots of things, it’s just my natural rubbish voice I think (unless it sounded different to other videos)