How to get a good, inexpensive, Hasselblad!

[John Irvine]

Since 1957, I've had a love of, but no real need for a Hasselblad. Only one thing has stopped me and I'm sure you know what that is. It has taken me over 50 years, but I have finally figured out how to get one.

Through eBay, or newspaper adds, or camera shows, or however, find the one you really like best, including all the accessories you think you will need. Sell your car, mortgage the house, cash in your life insurance and buy it. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy until the day you shuffle off this mortal veil (or cross the river Styx, which ever's the case).

Your survivors, sorting through the boxes of what they consider to be junk, will discover a big, old, heavy, bulky, thing that kind of looks like a camera without an LED screen.

Now here is the trick. The day after you buy all this equipment, get in your time machine and visit your decendants just after they find all this stuff. Offer them peanuts to get it out of their way. They will take it because they have no idea of it's value and will be glad to get anything for it.

Then get back in the time machine and return to the present and enjoy the heck out of it.

Maybe you need to go foward first to get the camera from your survivors and bring it back to now. That way you don't have to sell everything you own to start the process.

Right now I've got searches going on on eBay for time machines.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I paid for my two children to go to college. Now that they have graduated, they are on their own. If they need money, they can see if they can get it out of their mother. I is a free man and enjoying it!

Whatever is left when I go, they can have, but I am taking my Hasselblads with me!

Steve

 

[WolfTales]

Well according to "Back to the Future," you run the risk of anhilating your parents if you fall in love with your past mother. You can check for future parent exhaustion by bringing a small photograph along.

 

[dbonamo]

Right now I've got searches going on on eBay for time machines.

I have a slightly used Tardis for sale..lol

 

[Terence]

Your time would be better spent watching KEH's website. Go for "bargain" condition for everything but the film backs. Go for "Excellent" or an engraved "Bargain" one.

KEH often has various bits and pieces that are priced lower than their average. From what I can tell, there is very few differences that I can spot. Over the period of a couple months, I got a 500CM body w/ WLF for $130 (minor cosmetic issue with leatherette), an engraved 150mm CF lens for $310, a 60mm CF for $385 and two A12 backs for about $160 apiece.

I know you were being satirical, but, with rare exceptions, eBay is no longer the bargain hunters domain.

 

[John Irvine]

The reference to " Back to the Future" reminded me. Maybe I can find a clean Delorean.

 

[Sirius Glass]

The reference to " Back to the Future" reminded me. Maybe I can find a clean Delorean.

Buy the first offering of Apple, Google, ...

Steve

 

[mike c]

Just today I bought a A12 mag from a guy on craig's list for $95.00 in reel nice condition. He had posted it 5days ago, I guess no body wanted it.

Mike

 

[stealthman_1]

While I find the auction site still good for Leica gear if one knows what they want and is willing to pass it by when it gets bid up...KEH is the only place I'd buy Hasselblad stuff from. They consistently are the lowest prices around and sometimes by a very comfortable margin...and with a small warranty to boot.

 

[david b]

I follow a lot of Hasselblad gear on eBay. Today a brand new H2F body sold for $800. A12 backs selling for under $200. CF lenses now selling around $500 or less. Crazy times

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

Just bought a 500c/m, WL finder, 80mm black lens for $500 even. Got it from a local seller this afternoon. Probably in 7-8 condition out of 10.

 

[mike c]

In the past 2 weeks I've bought 2 film mags,220 ebay in great shape $ 130.00 and a A12 form criags list for $95.00 in excellent shape.

 

[k_jupiter]

Your time would be better spent watching KEH's website. Go for "bargain" condition for everything but the film backs. Go for "Excellent" or an engraved "Bargain" one.

KEH often has various bits and pieces that are priced lower than their average. From what I can tell, there is very few differences that I can spot. Over the period of a couple months, I got a 500CM body w/ WLF for $130 (minor cosmetic issue with leatherette), an engraved 150mm CF lens for $310, a 60mm CF for $385 and two A12 backs for about $160 apiece.

I know you were being satirical, but, with rare exceptions, eBay is no longer the bargain hunters domain.

KEH is a great place for bargains, I have bought a fair amount of Mamiya stuff there. But... Do NOT go for Bargain or Ugly grades when buying a time machine from them. The last thing you need to have happen is have a diatonic-neutron-trysitor go bad halfway through a time jump.

Excellent Dude!


tim in san jose

 

[luvcameras]

I havent kept up with my Hassy Lens Price Guide, but prices continue to drop......... now's a great time to buy....

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Dan