HASSELBLAD 500C

These are the cameras that, in one way or another, had a significant influence on photographers and photography. Hasselblad's modular, box-form 6×6cm SLR revolutionised medium rollfilm photography and the 500-series subsequently stayed in production for 56 years.

CAMERA ICONS Akeen ornithologist and amateur photographer, Victor Hasselblad tried many camera systems in his quest to find the ideal tool for taking pictures of birds. He liked the image quality of 4×5- and 5×7-inch sheet film, but even ‘portable’ cameras like the Speed Graphic were still too unwieldy. He liked the size of Leica's 35mm rangefinder cameras, but really wanted reflex viewfinding… and, ideally, a bigger negative with more cropping flexibility. The solution? Victor came up with his own design, based on the box-form aerial cameras that his family company had built for the Swedish Air Force during the second World War. The prototype was a 6×6cm format SLR with interchangeable lenses badged ‘Rossex’ and designed by Sixten Sason who, incidentally, also penned the first Saab passenger car, the…

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