Hasselblad V lenes on the SL..........is there an adapter

[geetee1972]

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The one you just bought, If I followed the right link, cost £396. The M to SL costs £300 no?

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[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

No I paid RM2500 ~500£

 

 

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[geetee1972]

Holy crap! That's batshit mental. What explains such a massive price difference? It's not like the UK is typically regarded as cheap especially not since the pounds value fell through the floor.

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Holy crap! That's batshit mental. What explains such a massive price difference? It's not like the UK is typically regarded as cheap especially not since the pounds value fell through the floor.

living in Asia has its advantages and disadvantages

Example I'm buying a 44" printer. B&H is selling for $3995. Here it's $8100

[geetee1972]

OK so what are the advantages?

[EoinC]

OK so what are the advantages?

It seldom snows here.

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

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OK so what are the advantages?

Cheep petrol, 6%GST, Nazi Lamak and like Eoin said No snow..........nuff said :)

Ohh zero % import duty on camera gear just the 6% GST

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I'm not sure I've followed the points above. First off, on my CFE lenses at least, the button to move the shutter to F is orange not green. You use this setting for when you're shooting the lens on a focal plane body such as the 2000 or 200 series Hasselblads. I am not sure if you can use just C lenses on focal plane bodies or not. If you have a C lens (rather than a CF or CFE) it would be worth checking.

 

What I don't understand is how the lens aperture stops down but I think I might have worked it out (and this might be what the other poster is saying).

 

When you take a picture on the Hasselblad body, there is indeed a mechanical coupling between the body and the lens that both stops the aperture down and triggers the shutter in the lens (if on a V series) when you fire the shutter. If you're mounting it to an adapter I am guessing the adpater triggers the button in the lens. If you've set the lens to 'F' then that would disengage the lens shutter and result in only the aperture being stopped down.

 

As the other poster says, you do then need to recock the lens. There's a special tool you can buy but you can just as easily use a screw driver. Note that you have to 'wind it up', it takes a complete rotation to recock and it's spring loaded so if you stop half way around and take the screw driver out I think it returns to the original position.

 

My adpater should arrive tomorrow so I will share some images from my 120mm Makro Planar and 80mm Planar.

 

 

The CF lenses have the shutter setting "F" as a green button. F locks out the leaf shutter to use with the body's focal plane shutter.

The C lenses cannot be used on focal plane bodies with the body shutter; however, they can be used in traditional leaf shutter mode.

 

On C lenses, the iris stop-down control is a button at about 8 o'clock on the lens looking at it from the front of the camera. Press that and the aperture is stopped down to reflect the number set on the aperture ring. You cannot reset the aperture without releasing the shutter and re-cocking the lens. On CF lenses, the aperture stop down is a lever on the lens at about the 3 o'clock position. Slide it to stop down the aperture; to release the iris back to fully open for focusing, press down on the bottom side of the lever and it will slide right back.