Hasselblad 500 Series

A Hasselblad 500C/M with a Carl Zeiss lens, waist-level finder and winding crank: the later, refined version of the 500C that Hasselblad launched in 1957. From the outside the two are nearly the same chrome cube, which is the point. The design barely needed changing. The 500C moved the shutter into each Zeiss lens, so electronic flash synced at every speed, a real advantage for studio work. Lenses, film backs and finders all come off, so you can swap from color to black and white mid-roll. Astronaut Wally Schirra took a 500C on his Mercury flight in 1962, years before Hasselblads went to the Moon.