Frankenblad - a very strange SWC

nick_clark

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Hi all, this Hasselblad SWC has just popped up in my local classifieds (the first one I've come across...), and I can't quite figure out what is going on... Advance knob is odd, baseplate is odd, lens is very odd.

Can anyone provide some info? The listing just says 'Hasselblad Camera'...



Thanks, Nick
 
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nick_clark

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I stumbled across this page in my Googling, which would seem to suggest it's either a 'Supreme Wide Angle' (SWA) or 'Super Wide' (just SW, no 'C'). I believe these were the first to introduce the 38mm Biogon and were made between '54-'57 (with the first SWC introduced in '59).

http://www.gilghitelman.com/news_0005.html
 

John Koehrer

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Would this use the same date coding as later cameras? vhpictures
 

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As you discovered, it's the first of the superwide Hasselblads - the baseplate is the same as the 1000f etc & the slightly odd lens setup again predates the introduction of the C-series lenses which were the first Hasselblad lenses to integrate the leaf shutter in the lens barrel when they replaced the 1000f/1600f focal plane Hasselblads. If it works well, it'll be pretty much as good as a later swc, just with slightly more awkward handling.
 
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