27 Detailed Pictures of Hasselblad Flexbody

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Thank you Stuart Walker for your help.

Hasselblad Flexbody Detailed Pictures 1

 

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[heespharm]

Is this something you made??? If so very impressive!

Edit: nvm I didn't know this existed

 

[erikg]

very nice. but why? are you selling?

 

[kwall]

What a lovely piece of kit! I didn't realize Hasselblad had made such a beast.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

heespharm,

Erik ,

No , Neither this is not my camera nor I am selling. I am dreaming a similar camera making project and I posted this as a document and information source. I will try to find help to draw this camera to computer and than put a STL file to the forums for anybody wants it , order a rapid prototyping print from ABS or Epoxy. Rapid prototyping machines print plastic layer on layer and make it produce any very complex plastic working part cheaper.

Umut

 

[Jeff Kubach]

very nice. but why? are you selling?

Agreed!

Jeff

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Jeff ,

These are for reverse engineering.

Umut

 

[Sirius Glass]

The cost of reverse engineering and manufacturing will exceed the cost of buying the system.

Steve

 

[brucemuir]

Such a pity the run of these was short before being discontinued.

Anyone know the reason?
Was it poor sales or compromised image quality not up to Hasselblad's stringent standards?

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Steve,

Yes , it is difficult but finding an freelance engineer from India or China nowadays costs few hundred dollars.
I wanted to reverse engineer the Luigi Colani America's Cup yacht design for 6 meter scale model and I asked to a Turkish Firm cost 1000 dollars and two weeks. I found someone from India from engineering forums , He modelled the boat in one day and cost was only 100 dollars.

RP is cheap for small to medium sized objects too.

I dont see any reason to cost of product exceed 1/6 , if you are lucky and if you have will to send write tons of e mails to the engineer. They pay these engineers 15 dollars or less daily.

May be final part to part precise drawing could be done at Ukraine and similar cost with a broken Kiev as a guide.

Possibilities are endless with these prices , thats what American Companies do.

Umut

 

[Lightproof]

If possibilities are endless, why is reverse engineering needed?

 

[ic-racer]

Such a pity the run of these was short before being discontinued.

Anyone know the reason?
Was it poor sales or compromised image quality not up to Hasselblad's stringent standards?

I always figured once you put Horseman rollfilm back (with a winding lever on it ) and a lens with some coverage to use the movements, there would not be much "Hasselblad" to it anymore

 

[vpwphoto]

Always thought I needed one... just the coverage of the lenses I use isn't much.

 

[brucemuir]

I always figured once you put Horseman rollfilm back (with a winding lever on it ) and a lens with some coverage to use the movements, there would not be much "Hasselblad" to it anymore

I'm not getting your point?

 

[Sirius Glass]

I always figured once you put Horseman rollfilm back (with a winding lever on it ) and a lens with some coverage to use the movements, there would not be much "Hasselblad" to it anymore

Why bother? I have better things to think about.

Steve

 

[ic-racer]

I'm not getting your point?

Actually now I see the wind crank. For a while there I thought they had marketed that for the digital crowd. Now I see it is a film camera.

Here are some color pictures of the 'Flexbody' and a list of the movements available with various lenses:
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[brucemuir]

Well the "Flexbody" allows use of the Zeiss glass for hasselblad & filmbacks that some already own. Although movements are indeed limited.
I believe it used a smaller image area by way of a mask but you could remove the mask it desired to get full 6x6. (I'm not 100% sure of specifics on this so please no one flame me on this, I got enough of that on the Cindy Sherman thread)

Okay I'm kindding about the flame remark. When someone that knows specifics please set me straight.

Now the "ARCbody" indeed uses a Rodenstock lens that affords a lot more movements.

I would image the Flexbody would still be awesome for portraiture but maybe not architecture.

 

[Laurent]

Looks like a very nice project.

Just ni case you need ideas, here's a link to a less ambitious project, built by a member of the French LF forum :
http://www.galerie-photo.com/construire-chambre-6x6.html