Hasselblad 500ELM

<p>Apologies, but another camera that uses batteries! I have had my 500ELM for a few years but it was out of service due to those Nickel Cadmium batteries that do die eventually. Found a neat solution in the the shape of an adapter that lets me use a standard 9V "transistor" battery..problem solved, and the ELM lives on.<br>

I mostly use my 500C these days, much lighter for an old back like mine, but I do love the look and feel of the ELM...the noise when it fires is spectacular as well! Of course I can tell people that it is the Moon camera, well close anyway.<br>

Anyway after our little spell of wintry weather I took the ELM up the mountain to the Monaro High Plains to give it a workout. These were taken on a property with an abandoned stone house after a light snowfall...yes, it does snow in Australia, and it was as cold and miserable as it looks!<br>

First the Swedish beast.</p><div></div>

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<p>I hate to do this, but OMG.</p>

<p>That's it folks. Film here was Pan F +, developed in Rodinal 1:50, scanned on Epsom V750.</p>

<p>Oh, I did take some more that day at a car graveyard, leave that for another post.</p>

<p>Absolutely gorgeous - both the photos and camera. Snow in Australia, though.....?</p>

<p>Great Pictures Tony! I think it's great that you were able to resurrected the ELM with that 9 volt adapter!<br>

Mike : D</p>

 

<p>Thanks Guys. Yes, snow in Australia! I live far enough south (near the NSW, Victoria border) that we do get a winter. Although I'm on the coast, a short 1 hour trip will get me on the escarpment at 1200meters, which does get some snowfall, but it doesn't hang around long. The Australian Alps are another 2 hours from there, and the snow does stay there all winter.</p>

Great shots and good job of bypassing the nicad pack. Thanks for posting.

<p>Lovely shots Tony, geez, I have to get my Hassy out!</p>

<p>Tony, what are you doing to my self esteem??? I just started feeling better about myself after picking up my new (old) Rolleicord IV and now you do this to me. Have you no mercy? Your shots are fabulous. Nice rewiring job.</p>

<p>You're on some kind of a roll here lately. All i can say is "keep 'em coming!"</p>

 

<p>Now we're getting all that white stuff that you didn't use! Great pics, once again, <strong>Tony</strong>:; snow was designed for B&W photographers. The yards taken with the 80mm would be my pick, but they're all just great.</p>

<p>Thanks and sorry Rob, but the Rolleicord is a sweet thing. Rick, I love to photograph snow, but sliding down an icy peak on a pair of sticks doesn't appeal to me at all!<br>

Looking at the weather map shows that NZ is really copping it, the South Island looks like it will be covered...so yeah, we didn't use it all!</p>

<p>Some people from the antipodes are just what my students used to call curve-breakers.<br>

Ruins and Yards Again are my favorites.</p>

<p>Beautiful camera.</p>

Tony, I have been a lurker lately, but always enjoy your posts. Always well done, but

this one is a favorite because my main cameras are a 500 elm and elx. I must have

tens of thousands of shots on both cameras. The 120mm was my first lend back in

the early 80s, and still one of my favorites. Pan F is a great choice.

<p>Tony, you have revitalized the forum with all your posts lately.</p>

<p>I like the way the Sonnar images a lot. Beautiful photos.</p>

<p>Rob, don't feel bad about your Rolleicord. You can make fantastic images w/ those, no matter what lens they have on them. And at the end of the day, your back and shoulder will appreciate not having hauled that ELM around! The one Hassy that I owned had a shutter that would wake the dead, but when I got a Bronica S it's shutter was in a totally different league. More like a gun shot.</p>