Is there any superslide mounts anywhere at any price??
[regarding V notches on 16S back] From looking at pictures on ebay... no.
I seem to have not looked with a keen eye. It appears that the notches are on the 16S (4x4) back.
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I wish there was 127 in bulk, so this back would have made a lot more sense for playing around. But that would have required 127 film in bulk and at cost savings attractive enough to make sense of extra work involved in spooling own rolls. And this is not the case or will it ever be.
Just in case you weren't aware, 46mm film was available in long rolls - it was used in environments like high volume portrait studios, before 35mm took over that role.
It may very well be that that was the purpose of Hasselblad A16S backs - to allow those working with long roll 46mm film to shoot short rolls, for things like testing.
The A16 I have is a 4x4 cm image on 6x6 film, this 16@ 4x4 cm frames, no on 64mm film.
Understood - but the rationale for the A16s may very well be that it permitted the creation of 4x4 images on short rolls for those who needed to test their setups - lighting, etc. - prior to loading a long roll into a camera designed to take hundreds of photos on 46mm film.
Did Hasselblad ever make a long roll 46mm film back?
I’d take Hasselblad at face value and bet that the intent of the 16S back was for superslide production, not to much more. The usage for smaller square images is a reasonable usage for anyone wanting to do tat. But other than that, it seems like just idle speculation without much supporting evidence.
A trip down the rabbit hole resulted in information about Hawk long roll 46mm motor drives for RB67s - but sadly no hints about there being such a thing for Hasselblads.
Rick Nordin's compendium does not list a 46mm film back, but it does list a 35mm panoramic film back that was based on the 70mm back.
The 16S backs were made for superslides, using chrome film for projecting. Superslides could be projected in a normal 35mm projector, and 6x6 projectors were pretty rare. If you had a project that required projection, superslide were a step up from 35mm slides. If you needed to give a presentation of your hasselblad images, the 16S back allowed you to make superslides of your work for projection at a better quality than 35mm (since your 6x6 images could only be reporduced at 24mmx24mm on 35mm film). Ofcourse you could just use your 645 back and cut and mount your slides, but mounting your own slides takes a lot of time (BTDT), so it's preferable that the lab who processes your film does it. By shooting it on the 16S, there is no question of what to cut and mount on the superslide.
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