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True they are rare, because nobody wanted them. And just like Rolleiflex had its own for the SL66, strange things are made by otherwise smart engineersRegarding the topic of this thread: I recently talked to a Hasselblad Technician who services cameras and scanners and has been doing his job for decades. He said the A12V is the only Hasselblad Item he had never seen, so I guess these are quite rare
True they are rare, because nobody wanted them.
Given that an A12V just crops the film but does not save any, as has been amply discussed at the beginning of this thread 5 years ago, I can understand why nobody wanted them back then. This was before the collector hype...True they are rare, because nobody wanted them. And just like Rolleiflex had its own for the SL66, strange things are made by otherwise smart engineers
Whoever made a call to produce them had some serious brain disorder.Given that an A12V just crops the film but does not save any, as has been amply discussed at the beginning of this thread 5 years ago, I can understand why nobody wanted them back then. This was before the collector hype...
Whoever made a call to produce them had some serious brain disorder.
They were probably designed to fit well into a specialized production setup for high quantities of portrait or other fixed aspect ratio photography.
Something like ID photos using a motorized body with a WLF, where the resulting negatives were printed quickly by a highly automated printer.
That's possibly one option, still, every one I have come across (three) for sale was virtually unused.
Back in the day, the pro lab I dealt with would have had to make a decision on where to crop if I requested 4x5 proofs from 6x6 negatives - most likely they would have given me just the centre 80%.
Their standard was 5x5 proofs - which I was entirely happy with!
The 4x5 proof from 6x6 option was for studios that had a big stock of 4x5 proof books for clients, and didn't want the clients to receive the little 4x4 images.
...high-volume portraits that get machine printed...
Somehow I like the idea of shooting the proper format rather than cropping.
While Matt's idea that it would be used for high-volume portraits that get machine printed is possible, the exact same thing could be done with a regular 6x6 back.
But the lab equipment used back then would be prone to skewing the auto exposure/colour balance results if there was a bunch of extraneous, outside the desired image area negative space.
So you're saying it would work better if there was 7.5mm of transparent film on either side instead?
Only because they would be using it with the 6x4.5 masks on the machine printer
So, in other words, they could just use the regular 6x6 back.
Yes, in other words, if they wanted the 6x4.5 strip in the centre of the 6x6 frame (whether it was banded on the sides by unexposed or exposed film), they'd need to use the exact same masks. So, it wouldn't matter if they used this bizarre 12V back or the regular 12 back to take the photos.
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