Hasselblad help

Sirius Glass

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Sunday while at Glacier Point in Yosemite I was using my Hasselblad 503 CX, a man approached me with a Hasselblad 903 SWC. He had rented the camera for the weekend, he had just finished his first roll and he did not know how to change the film. I carefully showed him how, step by step and made sure he could do it the next time.
 

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wow, you can rent Hasselblad film cameras? I didn't know!
 

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One of the stores here in San Diego has Hasselblads, Mamiya and Pentax and Canikon film cams at the ready. I think there is a Noblex in there, too.


Sirius, nice job on the help! Was he totally new to medium format/film altogether or just that camera in particular?
 

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Good show Sirius!

That I know of, Calumet rented Hasselblads, EP Levine in Boston does, and Samy's in LA does or did, not sure which.

I got an email from Calumet a few weeks ago stating that they were back in business for rentals, so maybe they are a source again.
 

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It's not the same, but I've shot a rolleicord for the last 4-5 years and asked to use a rolleiflex at a shop and couldn't get he magnifier up. Everything was so much different.

So he could of just not been use to the way hasselblads works
 

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I managed to expose a roll of backing paper once and ue the film as backing,wondering why there was nothing oon the negatives. ask for any stupid mistake and it seems ,I've done it at least once in my life.
 

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Loading a Hasselblad is far more fiddly than it should be if you have never done it before.
 

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RalphLambrecht said:
I managed to expose a roll of backing paper once and ue the film as backing,wondering why there was nothing oon the negatives. ask for any stupid mistake and it seems ,I've done it at least once in my life.
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I've never done this but now I am doomed to, as I now know it is a possibility!
 

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He's lucky that you were there; imagine the pickle he'd be in if you weren't!
 
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Sirius Glass

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I do not know.
 
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Sirius Glass

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RalphLambrecht said:
I managed to expose a roll of backing paper once and ue the film as backing,wondering why there was nothing oon the negatives. ask for any stupid mistake and it seems ,I've done it at least once in my life.
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I warned him about that and showed him how to prevent that.
 
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