![]() I was then back to deciding whether I would be happy using the little 80mm lens or not. For girls however I’m now starting to prefer the flatter less distorted view of a slightly longer lens (to avoid the big noise look!) the 60mm is also smaller than the 120mm Macro but still bigger than the 80mm. At the time I liked the images and for portraits of men I love the distortion a 60mm lens gives up close. I bought the Zeiss Distagon 60mm f3.5 CF when I got the Hasselblad 501c and have used that for perhaps 50%+ of my photos. It let me go closer than an 80mm and the 35mm field of view was perfect for environmental portraits and street scenes when I was shooting in India and other places (search ARAX on my Flickr feed for examples). The 60mm focal length was my standard lens when I used my ARAX-CM (Kiev 88) in my earlier photography days. The 120mm is big but very sharp and lets me go close but I find it makes me take mostly headshots as it sucks me into the subject. I was then back to the debate of what lens to take. So with that I now had a compact (standard rather than enlarged) Hasselblad 500cm camera body and film back ready to go. That made me like the WLF more and then main two advantages of having the WLF fitted is 1, it packs much smaller (and lighter) and 2, it just looks right and how it should be used (and very cool too!). I then switched back to view the same subject with the prism viewfinder and noticed the view was much less magnified. I practiced focusing with close up subjects and it seemed doable. On most of my other non-rangefinder cameras I can see to focus anyway within the frame but the Hasselblad Acute matte screen goes a little pearlescent/foggy if look at some angles. I decided to put my WLF back on my Hasselblad 500cm (the 501c awaits repair) and if I centre my subject on the ground glass cross hair for the part I want critical focus I can see to focus. A Hassy just doesn’t look quite the same without the WLF and it just seems right to see the image on the top of the camera. I saw a classic shot of a Hasselblad 501c on Instagram and it reminded me how pretty the camera looks with their WLF compared to with a prism finder. I had it a week then decided it was a lot of money when I could just use the 120mm Macro Planar instead to achieve equally sharp results yet also get closer to my subjects without the need of an extension tube. In 2015 when I was in full Hasselblad swing and fast become Mr Hasselblad rather than Mr Leica I bought a Zeiss Planar 100mm f3.5 because it is almost as small as the 80mm yet crazy sharp and with little distortion. I’ve never been a fan of the Zeiss Planar 80mm f2.8 CF kit lens as I think it is softer than the 50mm, 60mm, 100mm and 120mm Hasselblad lenses in my opinion (the 150mm is buttery soft but in a great way). The PM45 prism does add both weight and size to the camera and the Zeiss Macro Planar 120mm f4 is bigger than the kit lens. I think I often use the excuse that I’m not taking the Hasselblad as it is too big as this can be the case but it doesn’t need to be. I absolutely love the magic of my Mamiya RZ67 Pro 2 WLF so I’ve always been a bit disappointed that I didn’t get on well with the Hasselblad WLF and the acute matte bright focusing screen (glass). I found this easier to use and the Hasselblad became more similar to the Contax 645 in that regard. When I bought my first Hasselblad, a 501c, I really struggled to focus using the waist level viewfinder (WLF) so bought a PM20 prism viewfinder. I edited a Hasselblad film scan that I had taken in Paris back in February and I forgot quite how good the detail is in the 6×6 film negatives compared to 35mm. including dusting off my Hasselblad 500cm for a trip away Lumix LX100 (Leica D-Lux 109) digital cameraĬameras. ![]() Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm f2.5 lens.I had landed back in the UK in the early hours after three full fun packed days of model photography in warm sunny Tenerife! As with all my overseas photoshoots here is the usual summary of what I got up to, some camera specifics and a few thoughts thrown in too. This morning I woke up tired, still smiling, and more tanned than I was a week ago. Photos taken with a mix a vintage film cameras and digital. Beach Photoshoot (Fashion- Glamour Model) Tenerife Flying to the Canary Isles for a beach photoshoot with UK fashion-glamour model, Lindsay.
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