Boris Ekner Loc: From Sweden, living in Guatemala

Just out of curiosity ...

Is there anyone here using, or have used, Hasselblad's cameras?

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Used both the 500 CM and EL/M.
Do you have a specific question?

RobertW Loc: Breezy Point, New York

I used a 500 Cm with an 80mm lens for years---You're talking about not the Cadillac of cameras, but the Rolls Royce of cameras!!!

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

That was a specific question, so the answer is.... No.
Edit: hmmmm... Someone here has, so the answer is.... Yes.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Contact UHH member MTShooter. He posted recently saying he had just acquired a Hasselblad From an estate sale.

jim quist Loc: Missouri

The 500 and 501. Absolutely love them and use the lenses with my digital cameras.
Is there something you need to know?

Kuzano

Know a lady who has one with the 80 mm lens, back, waist top and strobe in a case. She's 45 now. Used it in college. Had it serviced ten years ago. Hasn't used it since college. Wants to sell it. I would have purchased it if the frame size 6x6 vs 6x9 and image quality had been desirable to me. Also my Fujifilm "Big Texas Leica" glass performed better. She has Zeiss glass.

She wants $1400 and I can buy three BTL Fuji's for that price.

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Boris Ekner Loc: From Sweden, living in Guatemala

As said in OP this is just out of curiosity.

What's your experience? What's your review of the Hasselblad compared to Nikon, Canon, or others?

Boris Ekner Loc: From Sweden, living in Guatemala

Just asking out of curiosity. No specific questions. As the Swede I am, I'm a bit amazed that they are still around comcidering the price. A camera this good, and this expensive, should have a pretty limited market.

The story goes that the Hasselads where used at the moon landings in the late 1960's. And that one camera was dropped in space ending up as a "sattelite" for many decades before it entered the atmosphere and burned up.

It would be interesting, though, to hear how it is compared to other, more common, brands.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

I used Hasselblad way back in the 80's

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Used them at both university jobs and commercial freelancing but never actually owned one myself.
Good camera for shooting people in the studio and field as they operate pretty quickly, particularly the EL/M. The batteries for the EL/M were an issue with the one I worked with. Had a back-up 500c which almost always got used toward the end of a shoot. Pretty compact system, though most of the images got cropped unless the A/D was going for square. Very well made it had a precise build quality you could feel the moment you picked it up. There were a few things you had to watch when using it, like make sure the camera was cocked when changing lenses. As good as it was, I never found the handling very ergonomic. For medium format, I liked (and owned) the Mamiya RB 67 for it's bigger usable negatives and transparencies and built-in bellows. Vertical and horizontal usage felt the same, all you had to do was rotate the back. Lenses were pretty good, maybe not quite as sharp as those on the blad, but the image size compensated. I actually used it to shoot a number of high school football games for the daily I worked for. (we could use flash back then) Also used a Pentax 645. Loved using that camera. It handled like a 35mm SLR.
I also used and briefly owned a Pentax 6x7. Interesting idea to scale-up a 35mm camera, but the hands are still the same size. We pretty much used it for aerials due to the larger image size and slightly faster shutter speed of 1/1000sec.
Not going to compare either of them to Nikon/Canon because they are different formats with different strengths/weaknesses. Apples and oranges.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Boris,

Had 3 Hasselblads in my film days.The camera and Zeiss lenses are outstanding.
If my favorite film, developer and enlarging papers were not discontinued, I still would be shooting with them.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

I have a 500C loaded with 120 sitting on a shelf.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Yes!