The return policy alone makes KEH alone makes KEH worth it. But consider what if the purchased used camera or lens needed a CLA? I purchased a 500mm Hasselblad lens for $475 and it needed to have a CLA. The cost of the CLA was over $750 because the lens needed to be completely disassembled...
When I would do extensive photography in the snow and cold temperatures, I would send my camera out for a CLA to prepare the camera for that cold weather before I went into the cold weather. Doing that I never had any problems even with my batteries, although I have been know to keep an extra...
When I liked in a house with a dehumidifier there was always dust in the water. Set up a double distilling set up and you can have all the distilled water you want.
I have used both the 135mm lens and a 150mm lens to enlarge 4"x5" film sheets and the only difference I noticed was the high the enlarge was raised from the paper.
While one could purchase a chart such as the Air Force on mentioned in the article, one would need a enlarger to have a large enough image of various places in the chart to evaluate the lens. Which also includes some assumptions about the enlarger and its lens.
The only places that I know to do a CLA on a Hasselblad are not near by you so you will have to ship it. One place is Hasselblad in southern California and the other place I have used is KEH.com in Atlanta Georgia. Call both places to learn about the costs and the turnaround time.
The cited webpages are like recipes, one has the information needed to cook a dish, but one must still assemble the necessary tools and do the work. I would be nice, at least to me, if the cited webpages actually did the work for me to. 😧
Many here live in both film and digital. Some more one way than the other. Even so that only use one. But all are welcome to Photrio. I use my Hasselblads for film and use the Nikon 7Zii for digital.
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