lamlux:

I made a DIY on my blog about changing the dark slide light seal on your Hasselblad 500CM (C) camera’s film back, the A12 or the A24.

The How-to Here.

Use and take care of your old cameras!

IMPORTANT!! I need to do this.

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Le Petit Monsieur I was walking to the metro station after buying some film and walking down camera street, when I saw this guy and his owner walking. I dropped my camera and took a picture of him pulling away. His owner got interested and asked if he could see the photo. I explained to him that it’s a film camera and I’d have to develop the photo for him to see it. As he was starting to walk away, I told him I can email him the photo. He then spent a good ten minutes explaining to me that he doesn’t want a capital T, but a lower case one. I actually went and added another keyboard on my phone for him to type it, but he couldn’t figure out how to set lowercase letters. I had no idea what he was saying because he spoke poor English, so I ended up giving him a piece of paper and asking him to write it the traditional way. While he was doing that, I dropped my camera again and took this snap of his dog. Then his dog started barking at me again… Hasselblad 500C Portra 800 1/250 @ f/8. 
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Le Petit Monsieur

I was walking to the metro station after buying some film and walking down camera street, when I saw this guy and his owner walking.

I dropped my camera and took a picture of him pulling away. His owner got interested and asked if he could see the photo. I explained to him that it’s a film camera and I’d have to develop the photo for him to see it.

As he was starting to walk away, I told him I can email him the photo.

He then spent a good ten minutes explaining to me that he doesn’t want a capital T, but a lower case one. I actually went and added another keyboard on my phone for him to type it, but he couldn’t figure out how to set lowercase letters. I had no idea what he was saying because he spoke poor English, so I ended up giving him a piece of paper and asking him to write it the traditional way.

While he was doing that, I dropped my camera again and took this snap of his dog.

Then his dog started barking at me again…

Hasselblad 500C Portra 800 1/250 @ f/8. 

Up on the hill where the Sacre Coeur stands. This was taken after my co-worker, Anna (no, this is the cool fun one I like to hang out with), and I went to the Basilique de Sacre Coeur. We took a walk around the hills, walked between all the souvenir vendors, I had a giant hotdog in a baguette, then we had gelato, and bought postcards.  What I find impressive about this particular shot is how the film managed to capture all the highlights and didn’t blow the background out. You can see there are 3 layers to this photo: the dark shadow part, the bright middle section, and the far back with faint shapes of the horizon. When I shot, I exposed between the shadow area and the brightly lit part to try to get as much info in the shot. And it worked. And I love it. I know for a fact that my digital camera would completely blow out the far back. Fuji 400, expired since 2006. Hasselblad 500C 1/125 @f/5.6.
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Up on the hill where the Sacre Coeur stands.

This was taken after my co-worker, Anna (no, this is the cool fun one I like to hang out with), and I went to the Basilique de Sacre Coeur. We took a walk around the hills, walked between all the souvenir vendors, I had a giant hotdog in a baguette, then we had gelato, and bought postcards. 

What I find impressive about this particular shot is how the film managed to capture all the highlights and didn’t blow the background out. You can see there are 3 layers to this photo: the dark shadow part, the bright middle section, and the far back with faint shapes of the horizon. When I shot, I exposed between the shadow area and the brightly lit part to try to get as much info in the shot. And it worked. And I love it.

I know for a fact that my digital camera would completely blow out the far back.

Fuji 400, expired since 2006. Hasselblad 500C 1/125 @f/5.6.