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Try this link (copy and paste):

 

http://www.zeiss.de/de/photo/home_e.nsf/Contents-FrameDHTML/C848A011BACB8FF0C1256B1A002DBD21

 

Then you have to scroll down the page, and there it is: Camera Lens News-Archives.

You can read this thread:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=001G6L

Thanks, Robert. That's exactly what I meant.

Douglas, perhaps the problem is me. Being a single man, as I said, makes me appreciate some of the fine things I have more than I should. I feel that, after all these years, part of me is in them.

 

(I think this is really going off topic more than the moderator and other members of the forum can tolerate. I'm sorry).

I know this is completely off-topic, but I have to say it (I cannot help it).

Every time I read that someone wants to sell his father�s or grandfather�s camera I feel sick.

 

Excuse me, A Kat, but do you really need those bucks for buying food for your children, paying the doctor�s bill or something like that. My experience is that most of the inheritors who sell �the family jewels� don�t need that money for living.

 

I�m single (no wife nor kids) and I�m sure that my nephews will sell my Hasselblad 205FCC the next day I die. Thanks God I won�t be there for seeing it.

Good point, Robert, but I have changed the battery and the problem is still the same. After trying different speeds once and again, it�s clear that the connection between the shutter speed ring and the body itself is faulty. As I said previously, the display shows 1/8 instead of 1/750. But if I push slightly the ring clockwise without moving it, then the display shows the correct speed. When I stop pushing, 1/8 comes back.

 

I�m afraid I will have to bite the bullet and send it to Madrid for a CLA.

I bought a brand new Hassy 205 two years ago and I�ve been using it

in the Z mode without any problem. Today I have tried to shoot some

photographs using the M mode and when I set the shutter speed ring at

1/1000 and pushed the release button, I knew that something was wrong

because it didn�t *sound* like 1/1000, but much slower. :-( Same

thing happened with other speeds. I turned the ring down through the

whole scale while I watched the display and discovered that 1/2000

was OK, but then it changed to 1/6, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10 and 1/15 (instead

of 1/1500, 1/1000, 1/750, 1/500 and 1/300). At 1/250 and slower

speeds everything was right again. I have been very very careful with

the camera (I mean, no rough use), so I think this problem may have

existed just from the beginning. Although I am not too much worried

about it because the camera works fine in the Z mode, can anyone tell

me if it is an expensive repair?

 

Thanks in advance for your help. Un saludo desde Salamanca (España).

Please, Kornelius, stop saying which are your favourite cameras and lenses because it seems to be the signal for taking them out of the market. First was the Hasselblad 201. Now, the Tele-Tessar 350FE. Which one will be the next? You are a jinx ;-)

 

There have been many comments here about the future of Hasselblad, but what about Zeiss'? I didn't know that the glass in the Tele-Tessar *was* special (thanks, Robb), so another top-of-the-line / state-of-the-art lens has fallen. Will Zeiss manufacture in the future only the cheaper top sellers, and some "icons" like the Biogon and the Planar 100? What do you think?

I can't find this lens in the Carl Zeiss' web site, although it still

appears in Hasselblad's. Has Zeiss stopped manufacturing it? Why?

Zeiss Tele-Superachromat CFE 350 is one stop slower, and its minimun

focusing distance is twice longer, so it isn't really a substitute.

Any thoughts?

I think that in "Backbeat" (the movie about the early days of the Beatles before they became famous) Sheryl Lee, as the photographer Astrid Kirchherr uses a Hasselblad in the scene where Ian Hart, as John Lennon, is mooning her. I'm not quite sure, though.

It seems that we have come to an end (by now). Thanks to all of you, wonderful people.

Hello, John.

 

As far as I know, you can use it for making TTL flash tests (the highest f-stop for that ISO and camera-to-subject distance) and avoiding vignetting with the Proshade. The extension of the shade is marked for using every lens full opened and focused to infinity. If you stop down the diaphragm and/or focus closer, you can extend the shade a little bit more. How much more without vignetting? Put the multicontrol back cap on, close the diaphragm, focus and then look through the four little holes in the cap. You can see the exit pupil (a pentagon) and how it is "eclipsed" when you extend the shade. A 10-20% "eclipse" isn't noticiable on the final shot, but you should make your own tests.

May be you are talking about "The edge", whith Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and Elle Macpherson?

Thank you, boys. This is much more than I expected.

 

Jeffrey, you are completely right. After reading your post, I looked for Virginie's Official Web Site and there it is. What a beauty! (the camera, I mean).

 

http://virginie.ledoyen.free.fr/be4.jpg

Hello everybody.

 

This forum has so many good threads from people like Kornelius J.

Fleischer, Daniel Taylor, Peter Walker, Per Nordlund,... that I must

apologize for this "stupid question".

 

I'd like to make a list of characters who use a Hasselblad camera in

a movie, e.g. Viggo Mortensen in "A perfect murder" (with Michael

Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow).

Hello, Fabio.

 

I use a Hasselblad 205 with winder F and viewfinder PM45. I hold it with my right hand (between the thumb and the forefinger), focus with my left hand and push the release botton with my right middle finger. It's a very steady grip and much safer than the opposite way (holding and shooting with the left hand and focusing with the right hand).

Hello, Shaun.

This is a late answer to your question about the 10 before the EH.

"The factory made a change in the serial number code for the bodies and film magazines in 1990 by adding an additional prefix to the serial number designating what kind of body it is (10 for a C/M, 11 for a 503CX, 12 for the 553ELX, 13 for the 903SWC, 15 for the 205TCC-FCC, 16 for the 201F, 17 for the 501C). For example, 10 EH 18500 is a 500C/M classic (made in 1992). Magazines also are changed with a prefix designating the type of magazines: for example, 30 EH 36300 es an A12 from 1992" (from "Hasselblad system compedium", by Richard Nordin).

I use a 205 FCC with a winder F. Since I read in the Ernst Wildi's book and in the instructions booklet that "the battery check appears on the viewfinder display when the battery capacity is low", I wondered how low would be that, i.e. how many more photographs could be shot before total consumption. Now I know the answer: ¡NONE!

I was shooting outdoors, the battery check appeared on the display and the next time I pushed the release botton the image on the viewfinder became black. The mirror didn't returned instantly as usual. It was jammed. My heart, stopped. Finally I pushed the pre-release botton and the mirror went down.

Why I camera which costs 4.500$ (just the body) doesn't have a simple 100-75-50-25% power indicator? And the same goes for the winder.

Hello, Jonathan. I write you from Spain and I have almost forgoten all my English, so I hope this answer has any sense for you.

Read some books about the Zone System (specially the Ansel Adams trilogy: The Camera,The Negative and The Copy). If afterwards you are not bewitched by the huge possibilities of programming N+ and N- development in the ECC magazine, then buy the Hasselblad 203. I must say I can't develop my films yet because I spent all my money with the camera and lenses, but I will do it as soon as possible.