I just bought a Hasslebald 500c !!! Did I get a good deal??

[JEDIYoda]

The sucker was brand spanking new!! Paid $250.00!! When the guy told me the price I jumped! I figured he did not know what he had! What an idiot!! Sold it to me for $250.00 cash!! I took it and ran!! I mean what a deal!!

 

[DigDog]

Hmm ... i thought it was gonna be a motorcycle. But not, it's a camera.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

OK, but what did it come with? Any VF, lens, film backs?

 

[SKORPI0]

Wow, it came out the same year I was born.

 

[JEDIYoda]

OK, but what did it come with? Any VF, lens, film backs?

To this day it is still considered an excellent camera!
What good is a camera body without the lens or lenses??
I made out like a bandit!!

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Cool story bro.

 

[IronWing]

You got a fair to middling deal.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Hasselblad+500C+body&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_sargn=-1&saslc=1&_salic=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1

 

[JEDIYoda]

You got a fair to middling deal.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Hasselblad+500C+body&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_sargn=-1&saslc=1&_salic=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1

That is just the body!! I have 4 different lenses...….it was a total steal!!

 

[IronWing]

To this day it is still considered an excellent camera!
What good is a camera body without the lens or lenses??
I made out like a bandit!!

That is just the body!! I have 4 different lenses...….it was a total steal!!

Why don't you simply tell us what you actually bought instead of stringing this out?

 

[allisolm]

It’s such a good price because it’s a “Hasslebald.” Had it actually been a Hasselblad, it would have been priced much higher.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Hasselblad 500EL went to the moon.

https://gizmodo.com/this-hasselblad-camera-used-on-the-moon-just-sold-nea-1550241803

 

[Paladin3]

I hope the camera serves you well on your Zen photography journeys. I've grown too impatient to ever abandon digital and go back to 35mm, let alone medium format.

I have reoccurring bad dreams where an exposed roll of 35mm film has popped open and I'm holding it tightly in my closed hands while running to find a darkroom so I can develop it. I also have dreams where I'm trying to shoot an event and my camera falls apart in my hands, or I can't keep the lens attached, or I reach into my camera bag and it's empty, etc.

Maybe I do need a bit more Zen in my life. Give you tree-fiddy for the Hassy? LoL!

 

[zinfamous]

It’s such a good price because it’s a “Hasslebald.” Had it actually been a Hasselblad, it would have been priced much higher.

I was thinking the same thing. He probably uses it to take heavily-vingetted photos of his fancy Magnetbox TV from 1985.

 

[LTC8K6]

Now buy one of those ~30mp digital backs for it...or not...