For those of you who love your Hasselblads, but miss the movements of your large format camera. For those of you who love your large format cameras, but wish to experience the precision of this smaller camera.
The Flexbody is a tilting and rising body built by Hasselblad that uses V system lenses and film backs. The camera employs a ground glass back for focusing and composition. It can rise/fall 15mm in either direction and tilt up to 30 degrees forward or backward. By rotating the entire camera 90 degrees, tilt becomes swing and rise becomes shift.
An excellent way to open up your Hasselblad kit to new experiences, or to enjoy movements without the size and weight of your large format system.
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Hasselblad Flexbody with Rollei Ortho 25
A Hasselblad Flexbody out in the field exposing through a roll of Rollei Ortho 25 film.
Shooting an ortho film can be quite fun. The stuff is generally super low ISO (ISO 25 in this case), super fine grain, and has a spectral sensitivity limited to the blue/green end of the spectrum. This can give ortho films a distinct look in terms of their tonality.
For this image we combined the tilting capabilities of the Flexbody, with those characteristics of an ortho film, along with the judicious use of a couple heavy ND filters to really draw out the shutter speed.