Hasselblad 500 C/M body jam. Royally screwed myself.

<p>I’ve got an extension tube on my Hasselblad 500C/M and I screwed myself trying to remove the extension tube before the lens.<br /> <br /> The lens shutter is now closed, the body indicates cocked and the mirror is down. I can’t wind the crank and when I press the shutter release I hear a click. The mirror stays down. Also, when I look into the body through the rear flaps I can see how the shutter release flips the little screw inside it (Pic 1), as it should. I’ve tried turning the screw clockwise till I hear a click but all it does is enable me to press the shutter release again. Note that pressing the shutter release only flips the little screw, it does not affect the mirror nor the auxiliary shutter.<br>

<br /> As I understand it, turning the screw (Pic 1) should affect the shutter in the lens but I think in trying to remove the extension ring first, I rocked it out of its place. If you look at Pic 2 it’s clear it’s not lining up and I can turn that little screw all day and it’ll get me nowhere. When I look through the rear I can also see the cocking shaft (Pic 3) on the extension tube which I couldn’t were it in place. So it appears that the lens/extension tube is not cocked, yet it’s on a body that is.<br /> <br /> Any ideas?</p>

<p>Pic 1<br /> <img src="http://jamaicanswitch.info/02.jpg" alt="" width="313" height="323" /> <br /> Pic 2<br /> <img src="http://jamaicanswitch.info/01.jpg" alt="" width="246" height="372" /> <br /> Pic 3<br /> <img src="http://jamaicanswitch.info/03.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="337" /></p>

<p>You probably won't like the idea but this is a job for a qualified technician.<br>

Extra complication is the use of the E16 extension ring.<br>

Those rings are more difficult when problems like these occur.</p>

<p>Your unhappy experience may serve as a warning for others to follow the recommended procedure:<br>

First remove the lens than the extension ring or in case multiple rings are used each of the rings seperately.</p>

<p>Want to hear a doozy? I had my new 'blad 553ELX and a brand new 120mm lens. The camera/lens jammed. Since there's no screw in the camera I couldn't take the lens off. The more I tried the worse it got. Finally, all the blades in the lens started moving in all different ways and that was all she wrote. Never got the lens off the body and had to send it to Hasselblad. They successfully removed both and fixed the lens. However, it was pretty disheartening when it happened.</p>