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Question of lenses, for Hasselblad users..
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Time to slim down those unused cameras on my shelf that rarely get a walk, one of which is an old Rolleicord, which I keep about for it’s Triotar lens, which gives a softer, lower contrast look for black and white portraits.
I also have a lovely Hasselblad, which I am intent on keeping, and wonder if it is possible to replicate some of the old triplet-style funk with the Hasselblad? I like that I can do this with other cameras, for example with my 35mm rangefinder, I can choose older style, lower in contrast and with uncoated glass for a specific look. Or on the flipside, I can choose newer more clinical modern-style lenses, depending on my tastes, and what I’m shooting.
Ultimately, I’d like to keep just the Hasselblad for my medium format shooting, and know people already use things like softening filters on the Hasselblad, to mix it up a little for portraiture.
Any thoughts welcome..
Which series? The 500 series is harder the play with than the 200/2000 serie,s as you need to have a shutter in the lens.
Doable though, esp. with the longer focal lengths. Just get a macro bellows and mount a lens in shutter on it; does’nt have to couple, just focus I guess, but you’d get best results with tripod work.Ah yes, forgot about the leaf shutter in the lens. It is the 500-series I’m enquiring about, so image short of older Hasselblad optics, I’m probably out of luck. It would have been portraiture I had in mind, but maybe the limit of flexibility is filters.. I know the likes of Softar filters have proved popular, but I guess what I really had in mind was some sort of old, uncoated Triotar equivalent :)
…hmmm, there are e.g. two very nice vintage – Cooke lenses no-less! – on the local EvilBay right now…I bet you could front-mount them to a shutter quite easily, add an “inner-outer” (=telescopic)-tube push-pull kinda arrangement fitted to an old camera-body bayonet cap to mount and focus…… :) But they may be too good for what you’re after. Makes you wanna go Large Format, doesn’t it….
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