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<p>Diego, thank you for your reply.<br> I think it is a newer model and I'll start looking for one.</p>

<p>No the differences look manufactured and are certainly no marking to identify a faulty magazine. I've read that camera repair services can add an additional V's to mark magazines.<br> The difference I'm looking for is in the corners of the magazine where the film rollers are.</p>

<p>I have a Hasselblad A12 magazine from 1974 and when I digitize my negatives including the film borders I am seeing only a minor indent going vertically up in the top right hand corner, apart from the two trademark V's in the left border.<br> This is probably caused by some room at one end of the top film roller situated in the film window in the magazine's outer casing.<br> When I look at pictures from other photographers I see some indentations going horizontally left and right on all four corners.<br> I think it looks cool and it is somehow caused by a different construction of the magazines.<br> Does anyone know if my observation is right and if it is related to a certain manufacturing period?<br> Then I know what to look for when searching for a second magazine.<br> Thank you.</p>