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The Hasselblad 553ELX was a motorized, medium format , SLR, film camera produced by Victor Hasselblad AB of Sweden from 1988. It was a camera of exceptional quality; not only was it designed to meet the high standards of a professional photographer, bu also to meet NASA requirements. The 553ELX offered a battery-powered integrated motor with a motor housing built in the camera body shell, which were made of aluminum and magnesium alloys respectively. The Hasselblad 553ELX was equipped with an electronically controlled, vertical-run, cloth curtains focal plane shutter; shutter speeds from 1/16 to 1/2000 sec plus B. It featured a Hasselblad Acute Matte focusing screen and folding focusing hood, but the 553ELX could accept different types of focusing screens, prism viewfinders, with or without built-in light meter. The camera did not operate when the release plate was depressed. It used a Planar CF 80mm lens. The 553ELX was powered by 5 AA size 1.5V alkaline batteries, which lasted up t...

The Hasselblad 555ELD was a motorized, medium format (6x6cm), SLR camera introduced in 1998 by Victor Hasselblad AB from Gothenburg, Sweden. The 555ELD was a further development of the 553ELX; improvements had been made to increase performance, handling and versatility. It is the ideal camera for a modern studio photographer. The camera body was made of aluminum alloy and had a tripod socket (1/4" and 3/8") and tripod plate for rapid mounting. The Hasselblad 555ELD used a Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 leaf shutter standard lens, and was powered by five 1.5V AA size alkaline batteries. It featured an automatic, motorized film advance. The 555ELD was also equipped with a folding focusing hood with 4.5x magnification, interchangeable with 90º or 45º prism viewfinders or magnifying hoods. This camera could be adapted to digital backs as it had integrated control connections interface directly to leading digital backs; seperate front release port activation. Hasselblad 555ELD

The Hasselblad 202FA was a medium format (6x6cm), single-lens-reflex film camera manufactured by Victor Hasselblad AB in Sweden from 1998. The 202FA merged the precise metering, auto exposure, and flash metering to create a sophisticated camera, which was easy and comfortable to use, providing high quality professional photographs. With this Swedish camera the photographer had the choice of either aperture priority automatic, or truly manual function. The 202FA was powered by a 6V PX28L lithium type battery. The Hasselblad 202FA featured an accurate focal plane shutter with electronically controlled shutter speeds which ranged from 1/90 to 1/1000 sec plus B. Manual shutter speed setting in half stops increments. Flash sync was at 1/90 sec. The 202FA was fitted out with through-the-lens metering at full aperture with FE lenses, a folding focusing hood with 4.5x magnifier which was interchangeable with 90º or 45º prism viefinders. It was also equipped with a bright and sharp focusing s...

Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish firm which produces medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company is best known for the medium-format cameras which has been manufactured since World War II. The most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo Program missions when man first landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used specially modified Hasselblad cameras. Hasselblad's traditional V-System cameras are still widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers. One reason is a reputation for long service life and quality of available lenses. Their newer H-System cameras produced in cooperation with Fuji are market leaders, competing with Sinar, Mamiya and others in the medium format digital camera market. The company was established in 1841 in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a trading company, F. W. Hasselblad and Co. The founder's son, Arvid Viktor Hasselblad, was interested...

The Hasselblad 201F was a medium format (6x6cm) camera which was manufactured from 1994, by the Swedish firm Victor Hasselblad AB. The 201F was a high quality camera which gave the professional photographer access to the entire Hasselblad system of interchangeable photographic equipment. The camera had a Hasselblad bayonet mount for FE, F, CF, C lenses. The 201F was fitted with a horizontally-run focal plane shutter with rubberized silk curtain and release selenoid system. Shutter speeds were electronically controlled and ranged from 1 to 1/1000 sec. plus B. Flash synchronization was from 1 to 1/90 sec. The Hasselblad 201F featured a through-the-lens center-weighted flash exposure meter powered from flash unit. It also offered focusing hood with 4.5x magnifier, interchangeable with magnifying hood and prism viewfinders with or without meter. The camera was powered by 6V Px28, or UCAR 537 lithium type battery. Hasselblad 201F Photograph of Hubble Telescope Being Deployed

The Hasselblad 1600F was a medium format (6x6cm) film camera introduced in 1948 by Victor Hasselblad AB of Sweden. Manufactured from 1948 to 1953, the 1600F was a professional camera with high quality precision mechanics. It took 6×6 images on type 120 film. The Hasselblad 1600F was equipped with a mechanical focal plane shutter whose curtains were made of corrugated stainless steel foil which was light and durable enough to withstand the high acceleration forces present in this exceptionally fast shutter. The 1600F used the Carl Zeiss Tessar 80mm f/2.8 prime lens, or the Kodak Ektar 80mm lens. The Hasselblad 1600F camera was introduced in New York in October 1948. Production began in 1949, but very few were made the first years due to technical difficulties. It was manufactured until 1953, when the model 1000F with a modified shutter replaced it. The First 269 cameras was simply known as the "Hasselblad Camera", but "1600F" was added to the camera name in 1950, ...

Purmamarca is a small indian town lying in the valley of Purmamarca, in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. The picturesque Seven-color Hill lies beside this 16th century adobe-housed town, which is located at the foot of the Andes forerange at 6,100 ft above sea level, in the Purmamarca valley, Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina. Route 52 runs along this ravine. It is the route that gets you to Chile. This photograph was taken in 1998 with a Pentax Spotmatic and Supertakumar lens.

The Harris shutter is a simple device which consists of a three-color filter strip. It was devised by Robert S. Harris of Kodak, for making color photographs with the different primary color layers exposed in separate time intervals in succession. The Harris shutter also means the technique applied to give a photograph a rainbow effect, which is produced by re-exposing the same frame of film through red, green and blue filters in turn, while keeping the camera steady. The Harris shutter generates a rainbow of color around the photographic subject. Clouds hanging over a landscape, waterfalls, or a flickering flame, make good subjects for applying the Harris shutter tecnique. When capturing an image with a Harris shutter effect, the camera must be kept steady.The process has become a lot simpler with the arrival of digital photography. The photographer simply takes three color photographs on location, and then use software to take the Red channel from one exposure, combine with the blue ...

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still pictures by recording light patterns reflected or emitted from objects on a sensitive medium such as a chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. But from a journalist or historian point of view, photography is the process of documenting reality by recording visual fragments of historical events. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure. Etymologically, the word “photography” derives from two Greek roots; photo, light; graph, drawn. At the beginning, in ancient times, was the Camera Oscura; a darkened room used to form inverted images on one wall through a small hole in the oposite. Such a principle was known by ancient Greek thinkers. In the 16th century, the clarity of the image was improved and enhanced in Italy by fixing a convex lens in the hole...

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833) was a French inventor. He was one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field. He is most notable for producing the first photographs, dating to the 1820s. Joseph Niépce was born on March 7, 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire. He took what is believed to be the world’s first photoetching, in 1822, of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, but the original was later destroyed when he attempted to duplicate it.Niépce also experimented with silver chloride, which darkens when exposed to light, but eventually looked to bitumen, which he used in his first successful attempt at capturing nature photographically. He dissolved bitumen in lavender oil, a solvent often used in varnishes, and coated the sheet of pewter with this light capturing mixture. He placed the sheet inside a camera obscura to capture the picture, and eight hours later removed it and washed it with lavender oil to remove the unexposed bitumen. In 1829 he began collaboratin...

The Hasselblad 1000F was a medium format (6x6cm), SLR, film camera introduced in 1953 by Victor Hasselblad AB of Sweden. It used a Carl Zeiss Tessar 80mm f/2.8 prime lens with pre-selector for Hasselblad. The 1000F featured a focal plane shutter with stainless steel foil curtains. Shutter speeds ranged from 1 to 1/1000 sec and are selected by pulling the large winding knob out and turning it clockwise to the desired speed. It could use interchangeable lenses, viewfinder and film magazine. The 1000F replaced the Hasselblad 1600F in 1953. Hasselblad 1000F

The Hasselblad 2000FC was a medium format (6x6cm), single-lens-reflex camera manufactured from 1977 to 1981 by the Swedish firm Victor Hasselblad AB. The unique design of the 2000FC gave the photographer a choice of shutter options: the focal plane shutter fitted in the camera body, or the leaf shutter built into the lenses made for the Hasselblad 500 EL , 500C and the 500 C/M since 1957.The "2000" in the designation of the 2000FC stands for fastest shutter speed, which was 1/2000 sec; the "F" stands for focal plane shutter; and the "C" for the Compur leaf shutter. Lenses without leaf shutter could only be used with the camera's own focal plane shutter. The leaf shutter provides with the advantage of flash synchronization at all shutter speeds down to 1/500 sec. The Hasselblad 2000FC had an electronically timed focal plane shutter with flash X synchronization at 1/90 sec and slower. Electronic shutter timing makes for extremely accurate shutter actio...

The Hasselblad 905 SWC was a medium format (6x6cm), wide-angle, film camera with permanently attached lens manufactured from 2001 to 2006 by Victor Hasselblad AB of Sweden. The 905 SWC was an exceptionally high quality camera conceived for the demanding professional photographers from all fields. Among the different camera models within the Hasselblad system, the 905 SWC was the only model that was not a single-lens-reflex type. The reason was its famous Carl Zeiss Biogon C 38mm Fi4.5 wide-angle lens. The symmetrical design and its very short focal length of this lens left no room for a viewfinder mirror between the rear of the lens and the film. The Hasselblad 905 SWC had a detachable optical viewfinder with a built-in spirit level. Through-the-lens viewing was possible by means of a specially designed focusing screen adapter SWC together with any one of the Hasselblad viewfinders. The 905 SWC was equipped with a leaf shutter fitted in the fixed wide-angle lens. This camera design wa...

The Hasselblad 501C was a medium format, SLR camera which was introduced in 1993 by the Swedish firm Victor Hasselblad AB. The 501C was a 6x6cm format high quality camera which featured interchangeability with 16 different lenses. Its prime lens was the Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8. The 501C came with an Acute-Matte focusing screen of unsurpassed brightness and resolution, and the A 12 film magazine. It was equipped with folding focusing hood 4.5x magnifier, which was interchangeable with reflex viewfinder. The Hasselblad 501C used the lens built-in leaf shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/500 sec., plus B. The lens shutter permitted flash synchronization up to 1/500 sec.; this was possible via the PC flash terminal. The 501C meter prism viewfinders measured the light level on the focusing screen. They are calibrated at the factory to give an accurate reading with one particular type of screen. Hasselblad 501C A closeup view of the Skylab space station taken with a hand-held 70mm Hassel...

The Hasselblad 500C was a medium format (6x6cm), SLR camera which was introduced in 1957 by Victor Hasselbald of Sweden. The 500C was the first Hasselblad camera used by NASA in space. It used a Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 prime lens. This high quality lens consisted of 7 elements, was highly corrective and had excellent resolving power over the entire field. The Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm had a built-in Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, an automatic diaphragm, and depth of field indicators. Shutter speeds were arranged in geometrical progression running from 1 to 1/500 sec. plus B. The Hasselblad 500C was also equipped with a focal plane auxiliary shutter made of two metal blades. It used interchangeable film backs, viewfinders, and lenses. This aluminum alloy cast camera was manufactured until 1970. The letter "C" stands for Compur, which was the in-lens leaf shutter. Hasselblad 500C Photograph of Apollo Command Module orbiting around the moon

The Hasselblad 2003FCW was a medium format single-lens-reflex film camera introduced in 1988 by the Swedish firm Victor Hasselblad. The 2003FCW featured lens, magazine, viewfinder, and foccusing screen interchangeability. It was equipped with the high resulution Acute-Matte focusing screen, which had been highly improved against internal reflections through the use of the new Palpas anti-reflection coating. All the Carl Zeiss lenses could be used with the 2003FCW. Specifications The Hasselblad 2003FCW was fitted with a vertical-run focal plane shutter with speeds ranging from 1 to 1/2000 sec plus B and C. Flash synchronization was up to 1/90 sec. But the 2003FCW could also use the lens built-in leaf shutter, whose maximum speed was 1/500 sec. This Swedish camera had three choices of mirror action: instant return mirror; rewind return mirror; and mirror locked up, which was in the raised position. The selectors of these three modes was accessible upon removal of the crank or winder. W...

Medium format is a film format used in still photography and the related cameras and equipment that use this film. Generally, the term applies to film and cameras used to produce images larger than the 24 by 36 mm of 135 film, but smaller than the 4”×5” size, which is considered to be large format. Although at one time or another a variety of medium format film sizes were manufactured, today the vast majority of medium format film is produced in the 6 cm 120 and 220 sizes. Other sizes are mainly produced for use in antique cameras, and many people assume 120/220 film when the term medium format is used. Medium format photography uses a larger film type than 35mm film cameras, allowing for more detail to be captured and the negative to be printed dramatically larger than 35mm film prints. Medium format has moved from being the most widely used film size (1890s through 1950s) to a niche used by many professionals and some amateur enthusiasts, but one which is still substantially more po...

The Hasselblad 500 EL was a medium format film camera manufactured by the Hasselblad Corporation of Sweden from 1968 to 1984. It was a motor-driven camera with a number of advance engineering features which made the Hasselblad 500 EL far above the ordinary. One could take pictures with the aid of a timer, by radio, or using remote release cords. One could also switch the camera to automatic and take a series of rapid sequence shots. The standard lens supplied with the Hasselblad 500 EL was a Karl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 with a 52º angle of view. This lens rendered high quality sharp pictures. The 500 EL used seven interchangeable lenses, each of them featuring Synchro-Compur shutter with exposure value, automatic diaphragm, and depth of field indicator. Shutter speeds were arranged in geometrical progression running from 1 to 1/500 sec plus B. Shutter speeds were set with the speed setting ring of the lens. The Hasselblad 500 EL was used by NASA on the Apolo 11 mission in 1969. Photo...

The Hasselblad 903 SWC was a mechanical, medium format, wide-angle camera which was manufactured between 1989 and 2002 by Victor Hasselblad AB. It featured a permanently attached Biogon 38mm f/4.5 wide-angle lens and detachable optical view-finder and optional interchangeable film magazines. This short focal lens was permanently attached to a robust die cast metal body. The Biogon lens was manufactured by Carl Zeiss in Germany. The Hasselblad 903 SWC was a camera of exceptionally quality. It gave the photographer access to the world's largest medium format camera system. The 903 SWC accepted all different types of Hasselblad film magazine from 120, 220, and Polaroid type of film with 6x6cm or 6x4.5cm image formats. This camera had a in-the-lens leaf shutter and flash synchronization was up to 1/500th of sec. Hasselblad 903 SWC Swedish Lynx

The Hasselblad 503 CW was a medium format (6x6cm), single-lens-reflex film camera introduced in 1996 by the Swedish company Victor Hasselblad AB of Göteborg, Sweden. The 503 CW was a further development of the Hasselblad 500 series cameras. Motorization was an available option by the addition of the Hasselblad Winder CW. This camera featured interchangeability of 19 different lenses, 1.4x and 2x teleconverters, and magazines for different image formats. The 503 CW was the perfect choice for the hand-held photography and studio camera. It was an aluminum alloy mechanical camera and was compatible with the entire range of Hasselblad leaf shutter lenses (the 80mm 2.8 standard lens was included in the Kit) & operated at lens leaf shutter speeds from 1 to 1/500 sec. The 503 CW also featured focusing hood interchangeable with reflex viewfinder, prism viewfinder with or without built-in light meter. Focusing screen: Hasselblad Acute-Matte D*. Hasselblad 503 CW

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851) was the French inventor of the daguerreotype process of photography. He was also artist and chemist. Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France, in 1787. He learned architecture and panoramic painting. He was adept at his skill for theatrical illusion and became a celebrated designer for the theater; later he invented the Diorama, which opened in Paris in July 1822. Louis Daguerre joined in partnership with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, who developed the world's first permanent photograph (known as a Heliograph). The main reason for the partnership had to do with the already famous dioramas of Daguerre. Since Niepce was a printer and his process was based on a faster way to produce printing plates, Daguerre thought that the process developed by his partner could help speed up his diorama creation. After years of research, Louis Daguerre announced the Daguerreotype on January 6, 1939. The French Academy of Sciences anno...

A photographic camera basically works like the human eye . The Camera has a body, formerly known as “camara oscura”, so the human eye, which is simply called eye ball. Like a camera body, it is dark inside and has a layer of sensitive cells lining the eye ball inner wall. This layer of sensitive cells is known as retina, which can be likened to the film in a film camera. Yes, a camera has a lens, or set of lenses, that one replaces depending on how far the object you want to take a picture of is. So the human eye also has a lens, which is held in place by the ciliary muscle. When this tiny muscle contracts change the shape of the lens, as when you change the focus of your attention from a near object to a distant one. The image is focused upside down on the photographic film, which is later developed and printed on paper. So, the images of reality we see daily are focused upside down, too, on our retina. The pictures are then transmitted through the optic nerve to our brain where we a...

The Konica Auto S was a 35mm coupled rangefinder, film camera which was introduced by Konishiroku in 1963. The Auto S incorporated EE (electric eye) exposure control with extremely sensitive Cds photocell. The framelines in the viewfinder of the Auto S adjusted not only for parallax but also for field of view. It had a dual-range CdS meter rather than the selenium meter of its predecessor, the Konica SII. It also featured the built-in "pull-out" lens hood. Specifications The Konica Auto S was fitted with a Hexanon 47mm f/1.9 standard lens, which was made of 5 elements arranged in 5 groups. The Auto S was equipped with a Copal SVA automatic shutter. Speeds ranged in steps from 1 to 1/500th of a second. It offered full flash synchronization with X and M settings. The Auto S was also equipped with a built-in self-timer; a bright line viewfinder with parallax correction; a coupled rangefinder; Flash shoe. Konica Auto S

The Konica EE-Matic Deluxe was a 35mm, rangefinder film camera introduced by Konica in 1965. The EE-Matic Deluxe was a compact camera fitted with full automatic exposure control by electric eye and programmed shutter. It was equipped with a Hexanon 40mm f/2.8 lens made of four elements in three groups. The EE-Matic Deluxe featured a Sheikosha LA programmed automatic shutter with speeds from 1/30 to 1/250th of a second, plus B. Flash sync was at 1/30. Focusing: double-image focusing spot at center of viewfinder field. It had a red warning signal flash indication. Konica EE-Matic Deluxe

The Konica TC-X was a 35mm SLR film camera which was manufactured between 1985 and 1987 by Cosina for Konica, not by Konica themselves. The TC-X featured a shutter-priority, through-the-lens automatic exposure mechanism. The body of the TC-X was completely made of plastic. In 1983, it was not clear if the market would accept such a plastic camera as there were doubts concerning ruggedness and durability. Specifications of the Konica TC-X Standard lenses: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.8, Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.4 Lens mount: Bayonet type Konica Mount 11 Aperture control: Fully automatic and manual Shutter: Vertical transport mechanical focal plane shutter, "B" 1/8--1/1000 secFlash sync: X sync at 1/8 through 1/60 sec Self-timer: 10 sec. delay (approx.) Viewfinder: Real image eye-level pentaprism finder with split image range finder, microdiaprism ring and peripheral matte screen; field of viewfinder is 92 percent 0.87 x with 50mm lens Power source: Single LR03 or R03 dry battery (AAA size)...

The Konica FP-1 was a 35mm single lens reflex film camera produced by Konica between 1981 and 1983. An external motor, the Konica Auto Winder F, could be attached. The Konica FP-1 featured a programmed Automatic-Exposure (AK) and through-the-lens (TTL) metering system. Although the FP-1 was a compact reliable camera, it had only one problem as there was no possibility to change shutter speed or aperture for the user. Professional photography was not really possible that way, since the user could not influence the exposure or depth-of-field. Specifications The Konica FP-1 came with a Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7, or a Hexanon 40mm f/1.8 standard lens. It had a bayonet-type Konica mount II. The aperture mechanism of the FP-1 was programmed fully automatic apertures with three stages of f/2.8, f/5.6, and f/11. The camera was equipped with a digital-controlled, vertically travel electronic metal focal plane shutter. The shutter speeds were available with a non stage progression from 1/30 sec. to...