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WTB: Hasselblad swc

calabash

New member
I am looking for a HASSELBLAD SWC with Biogon 38mm T*
Any model after 1982 is considerable.

Please PM me, if you have one want to sale
 

Animalland

New member
Thanks snapper. This is definitely a good one. But the price is a bit high. I would expect to get a 903 if the price is more than $3K.
If I didn't remember it wrong, 903 uses different glasses than the ones on that SWC/M, that's why sometimes those SWC/M with CF lens are selling at a higher price.
 

Jan

Member
If I didn't remember it wrong, 903 uses different glasses than the ones on that SWC/M, that's why sometimes those SWC/M with CF lens are selling at a higher price.
Very early models did not have the T* coating. The 905 uses different glass due to environmental reasons. All models in between use the same glass. Glass wise there is no difference between the 903 and SWC/M models.
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
Here's the history of the SWC model, data from:
http://www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx

1954-1958 SWA & SW
"Superwide Angle": fixed Carl Zeiss Biogon f/4.5 38 mm wide angle lens.
SW: 1956 slightly changed lens barrel construction.

1959-1979 SWC
With silver C lens.
From 1969 with black C lens, from 1973 with T*

1980-1988 SWC/M
Successor to the SWC. Ability to attach a polaroid back.
From 1982 with CF lens.
From 1985 onwards: spirit level in new style finder, removed from body.

1988-2001 903 SWC
Successor to the SWC/M. New Palpas coating in the body to reduce flare.

2001-2006 905 SWC
Successor to the 903 SWC. The Biogon had to be recalculated for new environmentally friendly lens materials. Now comes as a CFi lens.​

My first Hasselblad Super Wide was the 903SWC. Sold it in 2004, missed it over the next eight years, so I acquired another. The second is a 1978 SWC (black lens, T* coating). The performance from them is so very close to identical... I prefer the styling of the earlier model and the way its DoF indication works.

G
 

calabash

New member
Thank everyone for kindly helping me look for the camera and having detailed explain of models. I already got one on ebay with a reasonable price.
 
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