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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Endeavour on April 20, 2018, 07:46:39 am

Title: Anyone with a hasselblad digital back in Toronto?
Post by: Endeavour on April 20, 2018, 07:46:39 am

I am wanting to buy an HCD lens for my H1, but that means I also need to update the firmware on my body, but I only have a film and Phase One digital back

Anyone in the GTA have a digital back who could help update the firmware for me please? I tried vistek and Aden - no joy

Title: Re: Anyone with a hasselblad digital back in Toronto?
Post by: landscapephoto on April 21, 2018, 02:04:04 am

To upgrade the H1, you need a very early digital back from the CF series and these are rare. Later back from the H3D, H4D, etc... will not work.

Title: Re: Anyone with a hasselblad digital back in Toronto?
Post by: matted on April 23, 2018, 01:16:18 pm

Quote from: Endeavour on April 20, 2018, 07:46:39 am

I am wanting to buy an HCD lens for my H1, but that means I also need to update the firmware on my body, but I only have a film and Phase One digital back

Anyone in the GTA have a digital back who could help update the firmware for me please? I tried vistek and Aden - no joy

You could also try B3k. They are not a Hasselblad dealer but have used Hasselblad stuff go through there all the time. If they don’t have an appropriate back they may know someone that does. Their customer service is FAR superior to Vistek et al.

Title: Re: Anyone with a hasselblad digital back in Toronto?
Post by: BobShaw on April 23, 2018, 06:56:29 pm

Have you actually tried a Hasselblad dealer? At one stage I understand that they were doing it for free. Even so it probably is not that much.
An alternative is to buy an updated body on eBay.
A better alternative frankly is to just buy an integrated Hasselblad system complete and sell your H1 as it is now maybe 18 years old.

Title: Re: Anyone with a hasselblad digital back in Toronto?
Post by: matted on April 24, 2018, 07:36:59 am

Quote from: BobShaw on April 23, 2018, 06:56:29 pm

Have you actually tried a Hasselblad dealer? At one stage I understand that they were doing it for free. Even so it probably is not that much.
An alternative is to buy an updated body on eBay.
A better alternative frankly is to just buy an integrated Hasselblad system complete and sell your H1 as it is now maybe 18 years old.

The Hasselblad dealer (and possibly Canadian Distributor?) in Toronto (Headshots) was bought by a chain (Henry’s) that does not really care about Medium Format at all... at one point they had a token H6D in their display case but none of the salespeople knew anything about it.