The series does have a lock of sorts for picky people like me but in use I found it to be more of a hindrance. This opens up a huge world of possibilities and is something I covered in brief above.
It is not some form of latent transforming robot, although it may feel like that at times. On the one hand, the FCW is a slow, process driven camera which demands methodical and considerate use from its owner. On the other, it will devour film with wild abandon. Shoot, wind-on, shoot, wind-on. In order to get the most out of the system, you do need to invest some time, money and thought. For quick-focus-quick-fire photography or if you plan on using longer, slower lenses, having a bright focus screen is a must.
Sound and touch are a huge part of the affinity I mention in the previous section. Regardless of your pace and subject, the FCW punctuates each step of your photography with the satisfying song of clicks, clunks, zips, slaps, whooshes and whirrs. De-cap the lens click , open the finder shhht-clunk , flip the magnifier tick , focus silent , set aperture click , set shutter click , fire whoosh-slap , wind-on zzzzzip-clunk , repeat.
For me, my Hasselblad is an everyday carry camera. Understanding and accepting the way I typically shoot helped me to play to its strengths and improve my photography. Here are a few quick examples which might help you:.
Wind on, drop the camera to my side and close the WLF. All this assuming that I have a meter reading or Sunny 16 guestimate in my head. I am of course, much more careful with slide film. Setting the lens at 1m in the first instance helps me to remember to move closer.
Everything else is slow and methodical — levelling the camera handheld or on a tripod , taking a careful set of meter readings to place my shadows and then shooting. As you might expect, I take more care in these situations. None of this is new but I did want to make the point of the FCW as not-just-another-landscape-queen.
From the fanboy levels of positivity oozing from this page, you would be forgiven for thinking the camera has no faults. There are a few, although be warned that I am well down the road of splitting hairs. By far the largest criticism of the series has been those big titanium shutters and how apparently easy it is to put your fingers through them. By itself, this mechanism is a good enough solution to potential accidents but Hasselblad owners are as picky as Leica owners and with the release of the series, the titanium shutters were replaced by rubberised cloth something the Kiev 88CM had been employing for years.
Oh, and I have no idea why Zeiss only printed and not engraved the lens markings. Remove the battery and you have a fully manual series camera. For a demanding medium format photographer, the best of both leaf and focal plane shutter worlds. You can add your support by contributing your thoughts, work, experiences and ideas to inspire the hundreds of thousands of people who read these pages each month. Check out the submission guide here.
There's also print and apparel over at Society 6 , currently showcasing over two dozen t-shirt designs and over a dozen unique photographs available for purchase. I may be a benevolent gestalt entity but contrary to increasingly popular belief, I am not an AI. See EM's full profile and links. I am hoping you may know a place to service these. I bought a FCW, and cosmetically it is gorgeous black. But when I ran my first film through it, there appears to be a slight shutter drag, resulting in an underexposure on part of the frame.
The shutter curtains are perfect, but obviously something is amiss. I have been unable to find anyone who will touch it. Although I am in the US, I would consider shipping it to another country if there was a trusted service company there. Congratulations on the article. I am a delighted owner of this camera. I wanted to tell you that there is a lens that you do not talk about and for me it is excellent, extra-sharp. It is the FE f4. What opinion do you deserve? A very friendly Swedish Hasselblad tech here in Australia helped me out with that one.
Advantage, FCW! But one correction for you. Regarding these two lenses:. The 80mm FE has 2 important differences from the 80mm f2. I used to use a c before I found the love affair with the fe, and for me it was very uncomfortable trying to focus the 80cf with that focusing ring up against the camera body.
This was so contradictory to the otherwise perfect design of everything else they did. A good solution if you only have the series cameras is to ditch the 80 CF and use the CF instead, which gives a little more room on the focusing ring. Setting 0, is mirror up mode. The setting can be changed with a coin. When the film back is re-attached, remember to press the mirror button and advance the lever. This will retract the film curtain without wasting an exposure. In , the FCW was released, which has film winder compatibility.
In , yet another revision was released called FCW with an improved Acute-matte focusing screen and improved internal reflective properties. It is compatible with F series lenses lenses without shutters or C series lenses lenses with built-in leaf shutters. To use a C lens with the camera body's shutter, set the lens shutter speed to B and sync has to be set to X. To use the C lens shutter instead of the body's shutter, set the body's shutter ring to C and lock the shutter ring on the body to prevent accidental adjustment.
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Hasselblad doesn't service them anymore? You will need more than the manual. Thats why most USA service stations would not service them. Hasselblad Sweden should be able to service them but if you need a critical part you are out of luck. Aoresteen , Feb 28, HB USA politely let me know they don't repair them anymore.
The film advance crank rotates freely without tensioning the shutter mechanism.
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