An Expensive BOX -- the HASSELBLAD 501CM
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2016
- I waited over 40 years before I got a HASSELBLAD system -- here I show various film formats, lenses, and the many 'Reminders' you have to know if you get into the system, or you can break it ! Some actual photo prints are shown. You can see MORE photos on my Flickr Album here :
www.flickr.com/photos/2585098... - Věda a technologie
Hi Peter I enjoyed you videos even though I have Hasselblads myself. One tip for you is use the camera to cock the lens so you are not struggling with a coin. Take the film back off, fire the shutter then attach your lens. No coin required then. Matt
Hello Peter. i just wanted to tell you that your videos of old cameras are so enjoyable
Thanks Walter -- having seen so many videos on cameras on here a lot are 'Boring' !!
Marvelous! I've just loved the "underpaid assistant" part. Regards from Argentina!
I love seeing your passion for photography, keep it up Sir. greetings from Mexico.
Thanks Peter, in my book you are a real winner.
Hello Peter, you're a legend! Keep them coming.
Thank you very much for your videos, brings me back memory lane ;)
I have the Hasselblad 501CM, it can have a problem with the mirror not returning sometimes, so you have to tilt the camera a bit to make it return, but it should be a fairly easy repair. My first Hasselblad was a 500C/M, but I did not like the 3/4 mirror which gave a dark area in the upper part of the viewfinder when doing macro or long tele photography, so I got a Hasselblad 2000FC a great camera. Of lenses I can highly recommend the Zeiss Distagon 50mm 2.8 F, the Zeiss Planar 110mm 2.0 F (which are great together with the Zeiss Mutar 2X) the Zeiss Macro Planar120mm 4.0 CF and the Zeiss Tele-Tessar 350mm 4.0 F. All the 200/2000 series cameras have full mirror and the 501CM, 503CW, 503CWD, 500ELX, 553ELX, 555ELD all have full mirror.
I can also recommend the SWC camera. The CF/CFE/CFi lenses are better than the older C lenses ! Better multicoating, and a much better shutter.
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What ever Hasselblad you get, be sure to have the latest viewfinder model (like the one in this video) and the acute matte focus screen !
The basic four magazines are A12 for 12 6x6 images on 120 film, A16 for 16 6x4.5 images on 120 film, A24 for 24 6x6 images on 220 film, A36 for 36 images on 220 film. There was also special magazines for 70mm film the 70/100-200 for 100 to 200 images and the 70/500 for 500 images. There was also a 24x55mm magasine, but I think that is a bit rare. Then there are magazines for Polaroid film, latest there are digital back fx the CFV. There are also a holder for sheet film, so if you are a collector, I will say good luck ;)
If you want a prism finder, I can recommend the NC-2 prism finder, it is very good and very solid. If you use a A16 or A36 magazine and you want to take vertical images, the you should use the HC-1 or PM-90 prism finder, NOT the finder you see in this video ! But I will recommend allways to use sguare format magazines.
The former Hasselblad Distagon 50mm 4.0 C and 50mm CF was not as good as the Distagon 50mm CFi, but the best are the Distagon 50mm 2.8 for the 200/2000 series cameras, so if you want a 50mm I will recommend you to get a 200/2000 series camera !
The 180mm 4.0 are a good lens. You can get very good Chinese copies of the Hasselblad lens hoods for less than ten bob, I got one and it works well, looks like the original.
The surface of the black shutter which comes down when you change lenses has started to deteriorate -- probably and EXPENSIVE repair !
Excellent video full of information and humor. Gotta love it!
This is lucky to watch is video, very nice photographs at the end of the video, I really like those pictures.
Peter, I love the humor and exposition in all of your videos. From a Yank in "New England". This one was especially good, and camera club judges have underestimated your work.
I have Rolleiflex, Super Ikonta, and Hasselblad outfits in medium format. The Hassy outfit includes 50mm, 80mm, and 250mm lenses, as well as both the 51 and 21mm extension tubes, proper lens shades, sports finder, chimney finder, metered prism finder, and a large number of filters. I love using them, and think they are my best lenses, as long as I focus properly. That's not always easy, with my poor close-up vision.
By the by, my folks were great friends with a Londoner (Mrs. Irene Gigg) during the blitz. They sent food parcels throughout the war and corresponded until Mrs. Gigg's passing in the late 1950s. You Brits won the war in Europe; we just assisted.
Andy
Andrew : so kind of you -- well, my Dad 's ship was Torpedoed in Atlantic and it could not make it back to UK waters so limped to New York and he said the British Sailors had 'Tears in their Eyes ' when the saw the LIGHTS of New York ( very handy for the U=Boats later, after that 'Day of Infamy' -- He was billeted out with the Nason Family in Rhode Island until ship could be repaired -- we were in contact with them for years after.
Great photos!!
Thank you for this video! I really enjoyed watching you explain the system and the small details that are easy to overlook.
Peter love your videos , please never stop !!!! thanks!!! from NYC
Thanks for your kind words !! I am running out of IDEAS for Videos !
Don't you have some old instant cameras (Polaroid SX 70 or 660)?
NO -- I do not have any 'Instant; cameras -- sorry.
I just picked up a 501C and this video was fun and helpful. Thank you
"You can't beat the Digital fakers"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Epic line pete
That photo of the tree that looks like a bird is magnificent!
Thanks for the video! I am looking forwards to get my first Hassy soon! This Yank loves your review the best.
+Tyler Hamlet : Thanks Mate !! God Bless The Yanks -- please send me a food parcel, as when I was 4 and the war was on we got a Food Parcel where we lived in East London among the bombs containing tinned peaches which we had not had since 1939 and my Mum could not afford the huge TAX ( Import Duty) and we had to refuse it -- I cried at the door I remember, My Dad's ship was torpedoed and had to get across the Atlantic where the Brits were befriended by kind Yanks in Rhode Island and his family set the parcel.
Good video, great title, awesome camera.
I enjoy a lot your video, specially when you show us the examples you made and your photos. Thanks for making this. Greetings from Mexico City
Alex : thanks for kind words ! Keep Snapping !
Love your videos. Make more please.
got to love Hasselblad. my favourite camera brand :)
Iconic cameras, but I really appreciate the simplicity of my Rolleiflex cameras after watching this!
Jennifer -- YES Rolleis are simple so you don't make so many mistakes -- you can see my Video on MY Rolleis if you search my Videos -- Keep Snapping !! ----- Peter
Excellent video Peter, I'm looking into getting one of these
I very much enjoyed your commentaries as you showcase the camera system. Yes the poor and underpaid assistants do all the real camera work and the photographer who gets all the money is the one whom comes and presses the shutter button. That's sad, funny and true all at the same time.
Bought myself a 500CM about a month and half ago and have been immensely enjoying shooting my very expensive box. Great video and cheers from across the pond in Minnesota USA.
Great ! And Cheers from Brentwood, Essex ( ENGLAND ) NOT the several ' Brentwoods' in USA
PS : Got any GUM, Chum ? ( That is what us kids used to say to the kind Yanks over here in the 1940's ! )
I love your videos they are different.
Thanks -- well - I have no idea how to do all the 'Tricky Stuff' such as add music, graphics and photos = I even have to get my Daughter in a 'Good Mood' to join clips on her 'mac' but now she is working from home in the lounge no chance- so I do it all in 'One take' with NO Gimmicks ! Ha Ha !
This was refreshing in our day and age where most can do anything better than the next with an iPhone Sir! There's no talent in just pressing a button! SUBSCRIBED!
Thanks -- not been very well lately and run out of ideas for new videos but hopefully soon you will see a 'new one' !
Priceless 😉🇬🇧👍
"Can't beat the digital fakers these days. ". Give this man a medal.
Really enjoyed this video
I really enjoyed watching that, Peter. Mind you, I reckon all that faffing around with this, that and the other on the Hasselblad would stress me too much.
Come the inevitable evil day, I would screw something up and therefore be in for a hefty bill to repair the resulting damage. I think I'm happier with a nice, petite, forgiving, Pentax ME Super.
Added to which, as I would not have the assistance one of those mythical, underpaid and faultless assistants to which you referred, all my creative juices would be drained by the stress.
Roy Gardiner So true,a Yashica twin lens reflex is a delight if one wishes to use a larger format. It also costs far less than a single component of the vaunted Hasselblad. Mamiya C series TLRs can even surpass Hasselblad as Peter alludes to.
I'll be getting one for my self very soon!
Thanks for sharing.
Did you get it?
Haha what a guy.Loved it :))
You have a great attitude about cameras. Coming from a 14-year-old Hasselblad 500c shooter!
WoW !! I never had a 'Hasselblad' when i was 14 -- I had a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye 120 box camera I got off my Mum ! Keep Shooting and thanks for you support !
I would suspect that images published in a magazine have been scanned directly from the negative. More than likely various forms of digital sharpening (capture & output) have been applied. I wouldn’t pay too much attention when comparing them to your own lenses. Great videos Peter, keep them coming..!
The last photo is phenomenal.
I've waited over sixty years to get a Hasselblad outfit, Peter and still don't have one.
Ha ha ! well the PRICE of the now-Digital ones will put you off further !
awesome, still in 2020
Love my 503 cxi
I have the 500 CM, older than your expensive one! There may be other videos on the CZcams about the Hasselblad, but none can entertain like you when describing how to operate it. Enjoyed it very much. By the way, you can probably get you one of those cheating digital cameras if you search your couch for the loose change you keep losing on it!
Another excellent and highly informative tutorial by you Pete. I much prefer your method of presentation and value that you talk from experience of using these cameras in the field.
The Hasselblad is a lovely camera, this much is evident from your video. The only problem is that I already have a Pentax 645N and can't justify another medium format system camera, but watching these reviews of yours does make me think otherwise.
On the other hand, I should count my blessings; the Pentax a good medium format system and relatively affordable.
+Ronnie Maclellan : Many thanks for your support ! Are you related to John Maclellan who I knew when he joined the Essex Chronicle newspaper group then became a freelancer ? As I said in Video -- I use the Hasselbled for flash as it synchs at all shutter speeds -- handy when doing a wedding in June and full sun. I got my money back on the body and 80mm lens but NOT on the other lenses I got -- the Dreaded Digital came in and all us Old FILM blokes were out of work !
As the infamous David Chan out of Hong Kong said, digital cameras are like fast food McD's - quick then gone. Long live analog - the longterm fulfillment.
I love my Hasselblad 503 CW. Sure, they're expensive, but quality has a price. And they are complicated, although mine does not have a meter or a winder (which is an option I would not consider) but less so than a modern digital Nikon. Comparatively to what you would have paid 20 years ago (they were in production until 2013) they can be purchased today at bargain prices!
Hasselblad, like Leica M were two "Summit" camera brands that were/are the "tools of photography professionals/Gods." I couldn't afford or justify such "unobtainium," so I settled for a Bronica ETR-C for the former, and a Canon P for the latter. (Lenses and related accessories for these ordinary/trailing edge tech systems are/were affordable for the "more spirit than cash" photographer.) I did work for a photographic portrait studio, so I did see Hasselblads used by the wedding photographers. The studio portrait camera was an RB-67 mounted on a adjustable height arm on a wheeled stand.
You are a lot smarter than Ernst Wildi,
he banged the A12 cassette against the 500 C/M body.
Still hilarious, 'an expensive box' and underpaid assistants!! 👍
Hello Peter. thanks for a wonderful video. I have a similar camera, but I have a problem and the button cannot be pressed to take a photo! do not know why! do you know if it has a latch?
Yours sincerely Hamidi
Hani -- Thanks for Viewing -- well -- it may be that you have not checked the 'interlocking' things such as : Have you removed the darkslide, have you got the lens inserted correctly with the little 'spring' wound? There is NO locking latch on release button . Hope this helps.
How about that shutter button now?
@@robertocollo2890 thanks. that is fixed and working god.
Brilliant presentation and photos. Better than the Americans as well 😂
Hee nice one
What is the Russian brand of filters? Great B&W self-portrait, mate!
I have a Kiev 6c with a 90mm 2.8 lens which I bought for £50.
Cant even buy a Hasselblad lenshood for that money.
Also using the waist level finder at eye level you can focus using a mirror system the same as fitted to some Rolleiflex cameras. A great innovative idea not available on these Swedish boxes
You should just have bought a Mamiya TLR and been done with it. Close focus (built in bellows),excellent lenses,cheap filters,extra bodies (cheap for different films) etc,etc. You'd have saved lots of money and been just as well served.
Ha Ha ! You have evidently not seen my OTHER Videos -- I was GIVEN a clean MAMIYA C220 by a fellow now -deceased Camera Club member and I have the 80mm and 135mm 'Blue Dot' lenses and done some good 20x16" Exhibition Prints with it . Thanks for viewing .
Peter check that your focusing screen is correctly inserted, the metal tongues must be face down, otherwise you won’t get sharp images
OK -- thanks for the tip !
Never mind the Yanks, I enjoyed this video. I could not wait to get a Hasselblad and when I eventually did I was very disappointed, I could not focus it properly for love nor money. On the rare occasions that I do use it I set it at f22 and shoot on the hyperfocal distance. I much prefer the Mamiya RB and the RZ.
Mr Mamiyapress -- thanks for the support ! I intend to do a video on MY Mamiya Press Super 23 soon -- keep Watching and Snapping -- Peter
Please do as I would really like that subject, keep posting.
OK -- so long as you don't say " Got any GUM, Chum ? " as it gets into my National Health Teeth ---
Hiarious! 🤣
love ya pa.
Hello it's me from the park! I had a burning question I forgot to ask if you had a Hasselblad, looks like you do!!
Hallo My Friend ! Thanks for finding me on CZcams -- My Infra Red Photos mostly came out well - -- a few Over-Exposed but I cut the film and got 10 good scans ! hope you enjoy my Videos !
Peter
Peter Elgar I saw a few on your Flicker and they are pretty nice. I look forward to seeing more content on your channel and browsing more of your videos :)
@@nottinghamboii8262 GREAT ! Please do and keep in touch . If you want 'Clubs' kin the Chelmsford area you can find several on the PAGB site here : www.eaf.org.uk/member-clubs.html There is one at BADDOW for example
I still want a Hasselblad to own. But they still cost a fortune. Even the cheapest ones - 500EL, /m and /x versions. 200-300GBP for a simple body. And the lens prices are even worse.
(That is why I bought a Mamiya RZ 67 instead, much flexible and cheaper).
yes -- luckily my outfit was Tax Deductible over many years as I was using it for 'Professional Purposes'
Ohh, I couldn't do that in my country (since you can't buy one as new)
Hi Peter,
Great video! I just bought a Hasselblad C/M with 80mm f/2.8.
I was interested to hear your comments about Mamiya lenses and how they compare to the Carl Zeiss lenses. Which lenses were you referring to in particular?
I've used Mamiya cameras for medium format mostly - RB67, C220, Mamiya Universal Press and found them to be very good. The Mamiya 100mm f/2.8 for the Universal Press is a planar design and I think it's probably my best lens - it's just beautiful. Time will tell how it stands up to the Zeiss...
www.flickr.com/photos/kitschiguy/
I was referring to the 80mm f2.8 Sekor on my 'Gift' C220 compared to the 80mm f2.8 CFE Planar. Thanks for viewing -- I see you are on 'Flickr' too !
Nice to read your reply Pete.
Although I have am related to two John MacLellans, neither would not be the particular one you are referring to. The only MacLellan photographer I am related to is my second cousing, Donald who has quite a reputation bygoshphoto.co.uk/ . Curious website name; his father was in the habit of saying "By gosh!" when something caught his attention so he was known locally as Donnie-by-gosh! I'm afraid I have none of Donald's photographic genius - it's just a mildly obsessive hobby for me.
It's good that your interest in analogue or film photography persists. I have a sneaking suspicion that in the fullness of time, negatives and prints will be more highly valued that binary or digital images!
Best wishes
Ronnie
If they weren‘t so expensive…
I heard that you prefer you Mamiya ,,, that all I want to know mm cheers
Peter, did you know all new Hasselblad lenses are made by ATG/Fuji?
The 500 series are not used as much now like in the 70-85's.
Well done on the review, Peter.
Japanese lenses are better than Germany's.
Really, Zeiss didn't know how to make AF on lenses.
Yes -- I read that all ;new; Hasselblad lenses are no longer made by the Germans -- but they are the 'Digital' ones.
They are maufactured from Hasselblad Engineers and their Blueprints by Fujinon. Hasselblad have more control now and that it´s needed when Digital.
I myself have a 500 c/m now with CFV-50c digital back and I´m using the admired C and CF lenses. They are still very good.
So true, Peter.
The manual ones like Nikon AI & AIS, Canon FD and Olympus OM lenses are better made than today plastic ones.
ATG/DJI own Hasselblad and all lenses are blueprints from ATG/Fuji.
China now owns Hasselblad as well as Volvo.
ATG/DJI fired many people from Hasselblad (Europe) when they tried and failed badly by stealing Sony cameras. Then they cut out a block of wood and plastic logo "H" on the grips.
All the people working for Hasselblad film days are either dead /or retired.
Real photographers and amateurs are leaving the field of photography.
You now only have image editors that cheat shooting RAW and cheat using Photoshop.
They simply can not use a camera that shoot 1 frame per second with just 12 or 24 shots.
Let alone if they know how to turn the focusing ring or think/know the correct exposure to set without an internal light meter.
I liked the CF lenses more than the C & CFI.
My staff use it on our ATG Canon EOS-1D Cr.
DJI is well known in Asia & USA markets for their drones.
The Hasselblad X1D came from ideals of ATG/Shirro/DJI.
Hasselblad, Phase One, Pentax, Leica msdrs were too costly.
Hasselblad was in trouble for decades & they were up for sale
Most of what you say about the Cameras today isn´t true.
DJI is a majority share holder now, that´s true, they are sitting together with the other major shareholder Ventizz.
Hasselblad had problem before, that´s true, but the only problem today is cash and problem trying to catch up all orders from the X1D. The cash was solved with DJI. The other are they working full time on.
Hasselblads Enginers made the X1D in Gothenburgh. All Lenses for the H and X-series are made by Fujinon, but the Blueprints are Swedish made by Swedish Engineer in Gothenburgh. Also the H-Camera and the CFV back are made in Gothenburgh by Swedish Engineer. DJi has not been involved in those Camera and lenses.
The sensor (as for many other camera brands) are made by Sony and that knows everyone.
I don't get it - you buy expensive camera and expensive lens for the best quality and then put cheap russian filters? Maybe should buy some Kiev-88 than? I guess bronica will be сheaper and easier to use in that case.
I have not noticed anything worse by using 'Cheap Glorious Soviet Filters' -- they can send up rockets and make Novichock so they must be able to make flat glass Filters !
...I'm dead, @@theoldfilmbloke - you have killed me. Don't ever change.
@@illitrait Ha Ha ! hope you Resussitated
Over complicated
over rated
overpriced
I prefer my Pentax 67
and my Rolleicord Va.
I have a 500 hasselblad built in 1958 . It is 100 times better than the junk being sold today. Just ask a camera repair man how often he repairs a Hasselblad. Stick with the Russian junk. You have found a home.