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The most obvious is the format, which is 6×4.5cm (2-1/4 x 2-5/8) on 120/220 rollfilm instead of the time-honored, much-touted 2-1/4-square format provided by the still-current line of V-system Hasselblads. While Hasselblad maintained its signature modular design, excellent ergonomics, and unsurpassed quality, some things had to give. Computer-style controls, readouts require familiarization.Full interface with film and digital backs.This led to a five-year development project for the H1, a Hasselblad for the 21st century. It was simply not feasible to produce an autofocusing, multimode, all-electronically controlled Hasselblad with full film and digital interfaces within the classic body. Although shutters changed with various models, today’s V-series Hasselblads bear more than a passing resemblance to their illustrious forebears.īut for all their Rolls-Roycean panache and performance, the 2-1/4-square Hasselblads had reached the end of the line in terms of technological development. This simple, elegant concept and 2-1/4-square format were maintained for over 50 years. The original Hasselblad 1600F of 1948 was the world’s first 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 camera based on a compact, box-shaped body, to which lenses, backs, and finder modules could be fitted.
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