The Hasselblad 500 cm, Hasselblad 500c and Hasselblad 501 cameras on Ebay
The Hasselblad 500 series (including 500, 500, 500c and 500CM has long been known for its amazing optics, sturdiness, trustworthiness, and compact size. A changed 500EL / 70 model was employed by the astronauts who took part in the Apollo moon landings. The Hasselblad 500C was one of the first great system cameras, along with the Leica M series. The square 66 ( 6mm x 56mm ) format made the best of the lens image circle on the film and permitted better cropping in the darkroom. Employing a standard film back, twelve shots might be taken on the standard 120 roll of film, or sixteen shots by fitting a 64.5 format back.
The Hasselblad 500C 'moon camera' had lenses with a central leaf shutter. It became the base of a line which became celebrated around the world when employed by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to record the 1st pictures of man on the moon, and maybe as significantly, of earth from the moon. The astronauts really used a motor-driven Hasselblad 500EL / 70 ( 70mm film back ) Information Camera fitted with a Reseau plate and a Zeiss Biogon 5.6 / sixty mm lens. The thirteen cameras taken are still somewhere on the moon. To save weight, only the detachable film backs were brought back to earth.
Variants on the Hasselblad 500 series include the Hasselblad 500 cm, Hasselblad 500, Hasselblad 500c & Hasselblad 501cm cameras.
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