I have a bit of a long history when it comes to the Hasselblad 500c/m. Back in the early 2000’s I bought a 500c/m off of Ebay and made some pretty fantastic work with it. I loved the quality of the 80mm Zeiss Planar. I liked the ergonomics and the size of the Hasselblad camera body. I thought it was a really great camera. Unfortunately the camera I had had some major reliability issues. I had to fix several light leak issues in a couple of film backs. I had to fix another film back that constantly jammed with film loaded in it. I had a shutter failure and an issue with the aperture blades sticking. I even had an issue with the barns doors on the main body not opening all the way when the shutter was tripped.

In short, I was spending a mountain of money constantly repairing the camera and I ended up selling it after a few years for the sake of my own sanity.

However, the mystique and the wonderful image quality of the Hasselblad 500c/m never quite left me so here I am almost two decades later giving the Hasselblad 500c/m another shot. This time I bought the camera from a local shop and I very much hope the reliability issues I went through last time do not repeat themselves here. I had to sell a few camera in order to fund the purchase including my Mamiya M645, a Yashica 124-G, and my Kiev 88. In theory, if all goes well, I’m not going to miss the other cameras all that much.