The 500 C/M operates under any condition. (Remember, these are the reasons why the company has become so famous.) The color contrast and sharpness of the lenses are superb. The camera is built with incredible precision and excellent craftsmanship. This camera is still the flagship of my camera equipment, which includes a Bronica RF645, a Nikon F100 and a Toyo field camera with Nikkor lenses. At the time it was built, the 500 C/M was the flagship of Hasselblad. So now I used my EOS 1V when a mnachine gun is needed and the 501CM when I have tiome to be creative. The system is significant and comprehensive, but everything offered is by all comp arisons expensive - but so too is the absolute best of anything!īut you can start out simply - 510CM, CFI 80mm and A12 film back is all that's needed. The lenses are magnificent and the benchmark for all others. While digital has everyone buzzing about the relative merits between 35mm film and digital - nothing does more for the art of photography than the "'blad". With a non-metered finder (waist level or PM45) draws you back to understyanding light and there is no better way to do that than with a hand held meter.īut it is also intuitive - the way the filmback works the rear light curtain coupled to the shutter the lens coupling the compactness of the boody gliding mirror system and mirror lock up removable view finder demountable overall construction - the list goes on and on.Įvery component and design element is superb.īut above all the results are superior to anything else. Using it (I have 50mm, 80mm and 180mm CZ lenses and A12 backs) draws you back to composition - square format seen through the superb 3D screen. The 501CM is a light-box and a remarkable one at that - mechanically superb and functionally intelligent. as it has done before, retain value because there is nothing to really improve! The 501CM is a lifetime investment that should not suffer from obsolescence or a fickled market-place. That said, while equipment is only a means to an end, and taking photographs is what it is all about regardless of what we use, the 501CM actually brings you back to that. Together with Hasselblads' optics partner, Zeiss, the huge 6圆 negatives (and positives) are image perfection. It enables you to do this with uncompromising quality. The 510CM is simply sensational and brings you back to what photography is all about - composition and lighting. Secondly what it does to your photography skills and creativity. There are two critical aspects to this remarkable camera: the sensational product design, enginbeering, quality and usability of it.
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It looks totally professional if your image is important to your, you can't look more "pro" than with a Hasselblad (except a Sinar View Camera, maybe). Loading the film is not intuitive but easily learned. If you reverse the sequence you trash your savings account. To remove, the lens must be removed first, then the tube. The tube has to be installed on the body first, then the lens. If you get the sequence wrong you will end up with an expensive shutter repair. Great care has to be used when removing and installing the extension tube. I have two bodies, three 120 backs, 1 polaroid back, and an extension tube. When I am not shooting children, I keep the camera on a camera stand. This makes focusing easier because of the speed in which the filter can be installed and removed. I have a Calumet Compendium lens hood that allows a slip in diffusion filter. The lenses are too sharp for adult portraits. I shoot a lot of child portraits and by keeping with the waist level finder I can keep my point of view at the child's eye level without getting down on my belly. I use this camera for portraits in the studio exclusively.