Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Hasselblad V to Contax adapter and Hasselblad V to H adapter  (Read 966 times)

EinstStein

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 501
Hasselblad V to Contax adapter and Hasselblad V to H adapter
« on: January 12, 2014, 02:15:17 pm »

The Hasselblad V lens to Contax-645 body adapter is about $50 through the ebay. China made.
But Hasselblad V lens to H adapter is extremely expensive, $1095. Hasselblad made.

Why there is no third party V to H adapter, something similar to the V to Contax-645?
Logged

Theodoros

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2454
Re: Hasselblad V to Contax adapter and Hasselblad V to H adapter
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2014, 04:43:20 pm »

The Hasselblad V lens to Contax-645 body adapter is about $50 through the ebay. China made.
But Hasselblad V lens to H adapter is extremely expensive, $1095. Hasselblad made.

Why there is no third party V to H adapter, something similar to the V to Contax-645?
Does leaf-shutter vs, focal-plane ring a bell? You have to set manually the leaf shutter of CF lenses to "open" when you use them on the Contax (so that they behave like lenses that have no leaf-shutter build in), but with Hass H, the CF lenses operate as leaf-shutter lenses. In other words the H to V adapter has a build in mechanism to make leaf-shutter operation possible.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up