"The Moon"

The detail is impressive. You must have gotten close.

Hi David, yes as close as possible! Unfortunately still only 7 mm on the neg with this 760mm (process) lens, but details pretty good after all!
/Bertil

No idea how you did it (Hasselblad + sinar + nikkor lens??), but the result is great

Marco, not very difficult in fact; the lens is fitted to a Sinar lens board fitted to the front standard (containing a Sinar "behind the lens shutter"); removing the back from the rear standard makes it possible to fit the camera body to the rear standard, in this case with a Sinar made adapter for Hasselblad (#556.64), which roughly consists of a lens board to which is fitted an extension tube for the camera body (you can easily make such an adapter by fitting a thin extension tube to a lensboard, I have one such custom made for my Minolta cameras). You then focus through the viewfinder by adjusting the bellows (or the standards the ordinary ways); BTW, in this case the 760 mm lens is not a tele construction, thus needs 760 mm bellows between lens and film plane in order to focus at infinity; for closer subjects (like my two previous pictures) you will need bellows more than 1 meter, but with intermediary standards and rails it's just to put one bellows after the other!
Thanks for nice comments!
/Bertil

Nice. I bet you used a flash bulb. Strobes aren't strong enough. (VBG)

Anscojohn said:

Nice. I bet you used a flash bulb. Strobes aren't strong enough. (VBG)

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I think he must have used the whole sun! Or two!

"The Whole Sun and Nothing but the Sun".
Cheers!
/Bertil