[rollei_list] Re: Any Hassy to Rollei 6000 series converts?
- From: Bob Haight <rhaightjr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:25:42 -0800 (PST)
In a way Hassey did fix the problem, they no longer
make the cameras which is an end of an era. Bob Haight
--- Bob Shell <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Douglas Nygren wrote:
>
> > A design that is prone to jamming is a PF stupid
> design. And there
> > are many, many stories of people whose Hassys
> jammed at the wrong
> > moment. A bad design is a f--up waiting to happen.
>
> Anyone who has ever worked as a camera repairman
> knows that
> Hasselblad 500 series cameras jam frequently.
> Hasselblad and Compur
> designed the interface and got it wrong. In Japan
> Seiko saw the
> problems with doing it the H/C way and designed a
> different interface
> (used by Kowa, Mamiya, Bronica, and maybe others
> I've forgotten).
> The Seiko design doesn't jam. The only way one of
> the cameras using
> the Seiko system can jam is if a part actually
> breaks.
>
> The problem is the split shaft used by Hasselblad.
> Compur designed
> their shutters for SLR cameras to be cocked by a
> shaft, but all of
> the other cameras using that shutter type mounted
> the shutter
> permanently on the camera body (Zeiss Ikon, Kodak
> and Voigtländer,
> primarily) and used interchangeable lenses or lens
> heads that plugged
> into the shutter. Hasselblad wanted a greater range
> of focal lengths
> than this would allow, so the shaft was cut in half
> and keyed. The
> design caused problems from the beginning, but H/C
> didn't want to go
> back and redo the interface, so it was retained. It
> requires that
> both body and lens be cocked so that the keyed
> halves of the shaft
> would fit together properly. If the body is not
> cocked the lens will
> still go on, but everything jams. To unjam you must
> take the film
> magazine off, push the light baffles open manually,
> insert a long
> screwdriver and turn a screw in the direction of the
> red arrow. That
> the screwhead is there and marked with a red arrow
> shows how
> Hasselblad knew about jams and provided a way to
> deal with them
> without dismantling anything.
>
> This was an endemic problem with the 500 series
> cameras. It should
> have been fixed early on. I didn't mind that it
> wasn't, though, when
> I had my repair shop. I made good money unjamming
> the cameras! Most
> owners were too timid to try it themselves. I
> charged $ 25 for doing
> it. I used to tell them it was $ 2 for having the
> right tool and $
> 23 for knowing what to do with it.
>
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