I suggest that you made a big mistake getting rid of your 645. Its only fault is the fiddly twist and press button to change the back. The Contax 645 is on the other hand the easiest MF camera I’ve ever used, it is point and shoot easy. While the Hasselblad 500c/m is a lovely machine silky smooth, precise and ultra cool, it has a poor layout, the aperture & shutter rings are linked in the wrong way, the finder is not that good, it is possible to remove the dark slide from a film back when loaded. Your comments are at best just thinking out loud, but without much thought. You give a point to the Hasselblad for being 6×6 but not one for there being 16 frames on a roll for the Contax.
CONTAX 645 PRIZM MF 1 PLUS
Neither do you say that there is a plus point for the Contax for having a meter. Of course there is a prism for the Hassie which you don’t mention.
CONTAX 645 PRIZM MF 1 MANUAL
5&6, you can shoot both in manual mode, you don’t mention that the 645 prism view is corrected as opposed to the Hassie WLF. 3 again (you have two 3s ) you hardly ever use f2 anyway, though it is lovely 4 the Contax 645 is not a battery eater, batteries last for ages. Point 1 is irrelevant, given the question you pose, 2 & 3 are the same,besides, it is easy to shoot one handed with the contax, it is not heavy, impossible with the 500cm. I have both cameras and your reasoning is ridiculous. Thank you so much ladies for getting up early on a Sunday morning. PS: Without Joana and Maria this would not be possible. It looks like the Hasselblad won by a mile so… why do I sometimes feel I made a mistake selling it to get the Hasselblad… ( +1 Hasselblad)Ĩ – Sheer joy of using one or the other. IMMO the coupled speed/aperture on the Zeiss lenses for the Hasselblad makes aperture priority a non issue)ħ – Format, 6×4,5 on the Contax, 6×6 on the Hasselblad. ( tie, just because I’m lazy and I like internal metering)Ħ – The Contax has AF, MF and aperture priority. At least with the standard WLF of course. The Hasselblad has a gorgeous 3D like screen but no metering.
( +1 Hasselblad)ĥ – The Contax has a great viewfinder and internal metering. ( +1 Hasselblad)ģ – They both have an 80mm lens as a standard lens but the Contax opens at f2.0 (which makes it beautiful) ( +1 Contax)Ĥ – The Contax is a battery eater. ( +1 Hasselblad)ģ – Overall weight of both kits with the 80mm lens. The Contax is a heavy beast, the Hasselblad is a small box. So here’s a little list of some of the reasons that made me change from the Contax 645 to the Hasselbad 500CM.ġ – I wanted my medium format kit to have Zeiss lenses. Sometimes I feel I made a mistake by selling it to get the Hasselblad and sometimes I feel I made the right choice. From time to time I go back to the pictures taken with this camera.
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