Hasselblad 1600 F
On October 6, 1948 presented Victor Hasselblad in New York to the world his first camera for private use: the Hasselblad 1600 F . It was designed by the industrial designer Sixten Sason (1912-1967), who also worked for Saab , and consisted of an aluminum housing cast in one piece. This camera was revolutionary for its time with its modular design that allows lenses, viewfinders and film magazines to be exchanged. It was the world's first single-lens reflex camera in medium format (6 cm × 6 cm) with an interchangeable lens and magazine. A focal plane shutter made of very thin steel foil with a shortest shutter speed of 1/1600 s served as the shutter. The first series of the 1600F in particular was technically not yet fully developed, so that a number of detail improvements were made to the lock design during production. The 1600F was replaced by the Hasselblad 1000 F (1952–1957), which "only" had a fastest shutter speed of 1/1000 s, but was more reliable and more robust.
Between 1948 and 1952, 2,859 copies of the 1.5 kg camera were made. The camera worked with roll film 120 and 220, 6 × 9 cm sheet film , and Polaroid separating film . The camera housing, which was provided with a non-exchangeable focusing screen, had a folding light shaft with an exchangeable magnifying glass that could be exchanged for prism viewfinder with or without a light meter. The viewfinder image was only visible when the shutter was cocked.
Hasselblad initially offered the 2.8 / 80 mm- Ektar and 3.5 / 135 mm-Ektar lenses from Kodak as lenses . Later they switched to Carl Zeiss Oberkochen with the Distagon 5.6 / 60 mm, Tessar 2.8 / 80 mm, Sonnar 3.5 / 135 mm, Sonnar 4.0 / 250 mm and Sonnar 5.6 / 250 mm lenses . In addition, towards the end of production of the 1000F, a 5.6 / 508 mm lens from Dallmeyer was also available, but it did not illuminate the full format.
The camera, initially only offered in the USA, did not come onto the market in Germany until 1953.
literature
- Udo Afalter: Hasselblad, cameras & lenses. Self-published, Gifhorn 1993, ISBN 3-89506-102-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Lasse Brunnström: Svensk industridesign, en 1900-talshistoria. Norstedt, Stockholm 1997, ISBN 91-1-970332-5 , p. 113.