[HUG ] Re: A16 back

  • From: Per Nordlund <Per.Nordlund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:26:19 +0200

Just nit-picking a bit: PM(E)45 and PM(E)90 are/were made by Hasselblad. PM(E)3/5/51 too. I'm not sure about PM(E), that was way before my time. Might have been Novoflex.
 
Best regards,
 
Per Nordlund
Optical Design\Hasselblad
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>From: "Q.G. de Bakker" <qnu@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: 08/31/2008 07:58AM
>Subject: [HUG ] Re: A16 back
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>Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>>I love 645 format but the problem of the A16 or 16 back on the
>Hasselblad 
>>is
>> that its just really good for horizontals. Not verticals. Very
>awkward
>> operating the camera on its side with modern prisms which stick you
>way 
>> off
>> to the side.
>> In the past years though I discovered the older prisms in the
>catalog 
>> before
>> the Polaroid backs came out and they were designed and made in
>Germany not
>> Sweden
>> The HC-1  Reflex  90 degree finder first made for Hasselblad by the
>famous
>> Hensoldt of Wetzlar.
>> I got mine for 90 bucks.
>
>The PM90 and PME90 are made with similar slim/low build, and have a
>better 
>eyepoint than the HC-1.
>But are more expensive.
>
>As far as i know, no Hasselblad prism finder was made by Hasselblad.
>After 
>Hensoldt (Hc-1), it was mostly Karl Müller (= Novoflex) and Zeiss
>Ikon (CdS 
>meter prism).
>The latest PM 45 and PME 45 will most likely be Fuji products.
>
>
>
>
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