Hasselblad help

Sirius Glass · Nov 18, 2014

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.

shutterboy · Nov 18, 2014

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

Fixcinater · Nov 18, 2014

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?

macfred · Nov 18, 2014

Well done ! - Did you convince him to join APUG ?

mweintraub · Nov 18, 2014

At least he didn't ask how eject the memory card.

Hatchetman · Nov 18, 2014

I've never seen a Hasselblad out in the wild, can't imagine two at the same time!

bdial · Nov 18, 2014

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.

cjbecker · Nov 18, 2014

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

RalphLambrecht · Nov 18, 2014

Sirius Glass said:
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.

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.

film_man · Nov 18, 2014

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

Fixcinater · Nov 18, 2014

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.

I've never done this but now I am doomed to, as I now know it is a possibility!

BrianShaw · Nov 18, 2014

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

Sirius Glass · Nov 18, 2014

Fixcinater said:
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?

I do not know.

Sirius Glass · Nov 18, 2014

macfred said:
Well done ! - Did you convince him to join APUG ?

Yes

Sirius Glass · Nov 18, 2014

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.

I warned him about that and showed him how to prevent that.

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