Buying a second Hasselblad Lens

Slixtiesix · Mar 10, 2010

I can confirm from personal tests that though the plastic hoods are good, the pro shades, i. e. the compendium shades, do an even better job. Nethertheless I´m too lazy to carry one with me most of the time...

Sirius Glass · Mar 10, 2010

Q.G. said:
A fixed length plastic hood performs quite well too, no sweat.
So the advice not to use one is rather over the top.

What Q.G. said.

I have used the plastic hoods and never had a problem with them.

Steve

Rinthe · Mar 10, 2010

great. i just spent all of my money on a 150mm + plastic hood.. this is not good.

Q.G. · Mar 11, 2010

What exactly is not good?

2F/2F · Mar 11, 2010

That Rinthe now has no money!

verney · Mar 11, 2010

I have a plastic hood on almost every lens I own because it protects front element from physical damage. Compendium (bellows type) shades don't do that.

Q.G. · Mar 11, 2010

That's not quite true. They do that too. Why wouldn't they?
But they are big, and increase the likelihood of bumping into something.

André E.C. · Mar 11, 2010

Rinthe said:
great. i just spent all of my money on a 150mm + plastic hood.. this is not good.

Just wait until you see your first negs from it, you will forget that financial blow right away!

Great choice Rinthe, have fun!

Willie Jan · Mar 11, 2010

if someone wants to get cheap plastic hoods, they are sold on ebay from china for a few dollar.

Ian David · Mar 11, 2010

Willie Jan said:
if someone wants to get cheap plastic hoods, they are sold on ebay from china for a few dollar.

I reckon that if you are going to fork out for a Hasselblad, you may as well fork out for genuine Hasselblad parts (second-hand or new if necessary).

My experience with cheap Chinese goods is that they should generally be offloaded from the ships and delivered straight to landfill. Of course there are some very fine Chinese goods, but in the rush to make a quick buck and to satisfy consumers' need for cheap stuff an enormous amount of resources are being manufactured into near-useless sh*te.

Ian

verney · Mar 11, 2010

Q.G. said:
That's not quite true. They do that too. Why wouldn't they?
But they are big, and increase the likelihood of bumping into something.

I am assuming that you are referring my post.

I have owned only one compendium shade (CS) in my life so my experience is limited. While looking at CSs I have assumed that if dropped with a lens attached they would collapse on impact providing little to no protection to the front element. Solid shade would keep the front element away from rocks on the ground (protection depends on depth of the shade).

Q.G. · Mar 11, 2010

iandavid said:
My experience with cheap Chinese goods is that they should generally be offloaded from the ships and delivered straight to landfill. Of course there are some very fine Chinese goods, but in the rush to make a quick buck and to satisfy consumers' need for cheap stuff an enormous amount of resources are being manufactured into near-useless sh*te.

My experience too.
But to be fair, so long as they don't break (which they will: they are made of very poor quality plastic), all they need to do is be opaque.

And fit on your lens. I found it can be hard to get a good fit with these chinese copies.

Yes, yes... i bought some.
To butcher. To shorten to the correct length for my wide angle lenses. The one available from Hasselblad is made to work on the 38 mm Biogon. Both the 50 mm and 60 mm Distagons can use something a bit longer than that.
In the end, i got some originals and shortened those. The chinese ones didn't fit properly, and broke.

Q.G. · Mar 11, 2010

verney said:
I have owned only one compendium shade (CS) in my life so my experience is limited. While looking at CSs I have assumed that if dropped with a lens attached they would collapse on impact providing little to no protection to the front element. Solid shade would keep the front element away from rocks on the ground (protection depends on depth of the shade).

There are rods that bend an break. I don't think (i'm not going to test it) that they will just collaps when you drop them.

But when you don't drop a camera with lens and shade, the adjustable ones offer as much protection as other shades for sure.

Sirius Glass · Mar 11, 2010

iandavid said:
I reckon that if you are going to fork out for a Hasselblad, you may as well fork out for genuine Hasselblad parts (second-hand or new if necessary).

My experience with cheap Chinese goods is that they should generally be offloaded from the ships and delivered straight to landfill. Of course there are some very fine Chinese goods, but in the rush to make a quick buck and to satisfy consumers' need for cheap stuff an enormous amount of resources are being manufactured into near-useless sh*te.

Ian

As I posted before this is not may experience with the plastic Hasselblad lens hoods from China.

Anastigmatic · Mar 15, 2010

I set a young High School student up with a 500C rig a while back, as a gift and because I was watching pennies, I bought a cheap chinese (or where ever they come from) strap, hoods and plastic dark-slide and film reminder holders, that stick onto the back of the older A12's etc, once done the film back looks like the later model film backs with it built on as standard, if you know what I mean.

It was well worth, it and saved quite a few $$$ from buying genuine!!!, apart from the hoods being plastic you can barely tell the difference between these parts and the genuine thing , it was news to my old factory trained Hasselblad tech that still works on these for me (keeps mine in tune for a token cost every year) and has all the parts still..he looked at the dark-slide holder and the other parts and agreed it was a bargain and money well spent as well..as an aside, he laughed too, as we were discussing just how many kids would ever of got to have there own Hasselblad for High School photography class in the old days gone by, not very many!!...kids dont know how lucky they are

Rinthe · Mar 17, 2010

i got my lens and hood. the lens look great. but the inside of the hood seems to be rubber? and when i rub my finger over on the inside, little black things (seems to be rubber?) come off. is this normal or is this a bad hood?

Q.G. · Mar 18, 2010

It's a sign of the hood's age, and as such not unusual.

It would be better if it did not do that. But it will not affect the function of the hood much, so not really something to worry about.

Rinthe · Mar 18, 2010

Well it was a EX condition hood from KEH, shouldn't it be in better condition than this? I'm only worried because the little black things could get on the front element.

André E.C. · Mar 18, 2010

Rinthe,

If bothers you that much (and I believe it does), you have 2 solutions, call KEH and ask for a replacement hood or buy one yourself, there you have, problem solved.

Have fun!

Buying a second Hasselblad Lens

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