Hasselblad lens to view camera (mount on lens board)

Fragomeni · Sep 1, 2022

Does anyone know of an economical adapter allowing Hasselblad lenses to be attached to a view camera? The only ones I can find are for Alpa and cost around $500 which is too much for this project. I’m working on a custom camera build that needs to take V mount lenses and I’m looking for one on a board because it’ll be much easier and more secure when it comes to securing the mount to the camera body.

Sirius Glass · Sep 1, 2022

Well you can get similar advantages with the ArcBody and FlexBody. The ArcBody would require that you buy a new set of lenses.

reddesert · Sep 1, 2022

I would either: 1. get a body flange from something sacrificial (like an off-brand teleconverter for V lenses) and mount that to a board. 2. buy a much-less-expensive adapter for V lenses to another body (like Mamiya 645) and then mount that adapter to a board, either permanently or using a body flange from that system.

Nokton48 · Sep 1, 2022

30 Dist 4x5 Norma Monocular Viewer by Nokton48, on Flickr

30mm Zeiss T* Distagon grafted to Norma Flat Board. No room for a shutter between the standards, Norma Standards may be made to touch, can confirm that. So front lenscap shutter stopped down to optimum stop. You see the entire image circle 180+ around including the lenshood fins intruding, which I think looks kind of cool. Easily focuses from infinity to super close. It will be interesting to see what goes on with this. Will work good for very long exposures. Fun Ahead. Background is OMNI muslin 10x20 footer beeg

It's a Hasselblad Adapter, has three mounting holes to attach to ???

Fragomeni · Sep 1, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
Well you can get similar advantages with the ArcBody and FlexBody. The ArcBody would require that you buy a new set of lenses.

Yea, this is a random one off project for a friend and I'm looking for economical so Flexbodies and Arcbodies are anything but that.

reddesert said:
I would either: 1. get a body flange from something sacrificial (like an off-brand teleconverter for V lenses) and mount that to a board. 2. buy a much-less-expensive adapter for V lenses to another body (like Mamiya 645) and then mount that adapter to a board, either permanently or using a body flange from that system.

Yea, that's what I've been aiming to do but all of the Hasselblad adapters are too low profile to get mounting screws where I ideally want them. Thats why I wanted a board where I could just mount the board itself securely. I have an adapter that may work but the only space to mount the screws would be internally. I've drilled the holes already but I'm still not totally confident it'll work as intended without the screw heads interfering with the bayonet when attached.

Nokton48 said:
30 Dist 4x5Norma Monocular Viewer by Nokton48, on Flickr

30mm Zeiss T* Distagon grafted to Norma Flat Board. No room for a shutter between the standards, Norma Standards may be made to touch, can confirm that. So front lenscap shutter stopped down to optimum stop. You see the entire image circle 180+ around including the lenshood fins intruding, which I think looks kind of cool. Easily focuses from infinity to super close. It will be interesting to see what goes on with this. Will work good for very long exposures. Fun Ahead. Background is OMNI muslin 10x20 footer beeg

It's a Hasselblad Adapter, has three mounting holes to attach to ???

Yea, the board there is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for (I would just cut it down to a smaller size board). Can't find one though. Is the one there that you made yours or randomly from the internet? If it's yours, can you take some more pics to show how you secured the mount to the board?

wiltw · Sep 2, 2022

Besides a mount adapter to put the Hassy lens on large format lens board is the issue of the large format bellows allowing the relatively short flange focal distance to focus the lens on the focal plane.
Then there is the issue of trying to trigger the leaf shutter in-lens, or using a large format shutter located behind the lens.

Nokton48 · Sep 2, 2022

30 Dist Hasselblad Rear Mount K2 Filter by Nokton48, on Flickr

Hasselblad Blank Rear Mount from rear Norma Board by Nokton48, on Flickr

Fragomeni · Sep 3, 2022

Nokton48 said:
30 Dist Hasselblad Rear Mount K2 Filter by Nokton48, on Flickr

Hasselblad Blank Rear Mount from rear Norma Board by Nokton48, on Flickr

Super helpful and gives me more confidence that it’ll work as I’ve been thinking about it. The holes I’ve drilled are in the same position (internal) for mounting to a board. I was concerned about the screw heads interfering but this makes me more confident that it’ll work. Thanks for sending this.

wiltw said:
Besides a mount adapter to put the Hassy lens on large format lens board is the issue of the large format bellows allowing the relatively short flange focal distance to focus the lens on the focal plane.
Then there is the issue of trying to trigger the leaf shutter in-lens, or using a large format shutter located behind the lens.

Bellows extension isn’t an issue. As I mentioned, this is for a build project and there is a custom design and no bellows. Distances are based on minimum flange-focal distance based on standard Hasselblad bodies.

Philippe-Georges · Sep 3, 2022

The only problem is that you can't command the lens's shutter.
But when in the studio, if working with flash, the pilot lights can be extinguished to get total darkness, pulling out the cassette slide just before it comes out entirely, just flashing and then the slide back in, while the shutter is open and the aperture closed manually.

Hasselblad S-Planar 120 mm, Linhof Kardan GT, Multiblitz generater 3200 Joules on Fujichrome RDPIII 4"x5"

epatsellis · Sep 7, 2022

If you search for Hasselblad #40177, with patience you can find one affordable.

Nokton48 · Sep 7, 2022

Here is one cheapo it's in Germany

Hasselblad Lens Flange 40177, with Box -1170 | eBay

<p>Zustand: Top</p><p>Condition: Very good</p>

www.ebay.com

Philippe-Georges · Sep 8, 2022

What is interesting too is that with this flange, a lot of Hasselblad accessories can be atteached on other (LF-) camera's.
I used it to mount the Hasselblad Parallel Mirror system on my Linhof when making reproductions on 4"x5" (and occasionally 13x18 cm).
The lens flange was mounted on a Linhof Technika lens board.

Hasselblad lens to view camera (mount on lens board)

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