Hasselblad H1
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The Hasselblad H1 is a autofocus 6x4.5 medium format system camera from Hasselblad released in November 2002. The camera was displayed Photokina in 2002. It was jointly developed with Fujifilm who also distributed it as the GX645AF. They had previously worked on a 35mm panoramic camera released as the Hasselblad XPan and as the Fujifilm TX. The body is from Hasselblad, the focusing sensor and screen are from Minolta while the lenses, meter finder, and film backs are all made by Fuji.
The camera uses a dot matrix LCD display on the top right shoulder area to display camera settings. Changing setting requires pressing various buttons and or selecting menu functions, set the values by rotating the knob by the shutter release. Exposure modes include aperture priority, shutter priority, manual exposure and programmed mode. Multi exposure is possible can be set to 2, 3, 4, 5 and unlimited exposures.
The focus modes include a manual mode with focus indication in the finder, a single shot AF and a continuous AF modes. The focusing screen can be interchanged. The standard screen is a acute matte type D screen with markings for spot metering and AF area.
It is powered by three CR123A battery which are loaded onto a insert which attaches to the removable grip. A rechargeable lithium ion battery grip is also offered.
Lenses
The lenses are manufactured by Fuji and are based on a electronic leaf shutter design. The maximum shutter speed is at a 1/800 of a sec.
- HC f/3.5 35 mm
- HC f/3.5 50 mm
- HC f/2.8 80 mm
- HC f/2.2 100 mm
- HC Macro f/4 120 mm
- HC f/3.2 150 mm
- HC f/4 210 mm
- HC f/4.5 300 mm
- HC f/3.5-4.5 50-110 mm (zoom)
Finder
The HVX90X prism finder is removable. There is a dipoter correction from -4 to +2.5. The prism contains the metering system with modes for average, centre weighted and spot. It has a metering range in spot mode of EV2 to 21, in centre weighted and average of EV1 to 21. Exposure compensation from -5 to +5 EV in 1/3 stops. It has built-in pop-up TTL flash with guide number of 12. A TTL hot-shoe is on the prism and can be used with a Metz SCA 3902 adapter and the Metz SCA3002 system. A HVM waist level type finder is also available but was released years after the systems debut.
Backs
The HM 16-32 removable film backs uses a built-in dark slide system. The film inserts can be used with both 120 or 220 films. Bar coded films can be used which can automatically distinguish the film format chosen. Film loading is automatic and does not require lining up arrows on the film paper backing paper. The film is advanced automatically to frame one and is automatically wound to the end of the roll upon the last exposure. Advancing speeds is about 2 frames per second. Film ISO is automatically set with bar coded Fuji films. Non bar coded film can of course be used, but many automated features are lost. Manually setting the film ISO speed can be done using the LCD. The LCD shows film type (120/220), ISO film speed and the frame number which can be upward or downward counting. The back has a CR2032 coin battery, this is used to power the LCD when unmounted. When attached to the camera body the back consumes power from the body battery. With the back unmounted and a flat battery there will be no LCD display.
Digital backs from Phase One, Kodak and others can also be used. A HMi 100 Polaroid instant pack film back is also available.
Links
- H1 at medfmt
- Hasselblad H1 by Michael Reichmann, November, 2002 at photo.net
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