Buy yourself a Hasselblad on Amazon, why not? help.tc/hasselblad. The Stellar is going for only $1,450 now 😆!

Back in 1970 I started working in a camera store. Our top lines were Minolta and Nikon 35mm SLRs and Mamiya medium format SLR, but there was a Hasselblad and a Leica on the top shelf. The owner of the store used to take one of them on weekends for his personal shooting, depending on what he was doing each time. Both were priced way out of reach so they remained (by design of course) as the owner's personal toys. Both of them were so beautiful in the hand. Filling in the history like this has been time well spent for me.

41:34 That's Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin (the second man to walk on the moon), not Neil Armstrong.

You guys are so much better then TV. Thank you so much for keeping this quality content coming my way. Chelsea you are so cool!!!

I am born and raised in Gothenburg and as a kid my family and I passed the Hasseblad factory with its blue neon sign many times in our Volvo 142. My dad told me about the great camera that was first on the moon in 1969, the same year I was born. As a long time photo enthusiast I of course wanted a Hasselblad and just a week ago I was out to acquire one from a Swedish photographer who bought it new in the beginning of his career in New York. I had just a limited time to check the camera, a 501c, so to get som expert view of it I rushed to the Hasselblad HQ and factory in a late friday afternoon. It was closed. But I knocked on a backdoor and I got help to connect to a service responsible via phone and sending photos and got a statement of the purchase and I closed the deal! So I am finally in ownership of a Hasselblad! :)

Chelsea just rolled in from the club. ;-) Looking good.

It was SKF that traded ball bearings with Germany during the war, not SAAB. SKF= Svenska kullagerfabriken (Swedish Ball Bearing Company). SAAB (Svenska Aero AB = Swedish aero Company) was building the planes for the Swedish Air Force, that the Hasselblad camera was mounted in. In the 1980' Viktor Hasselblad came to New York and the passport police man said to him: -Oh do you know there is a camera with the same name as you? Viktor looked at him and said: -I am the camera!

Wow I love how you guys turn me into the history of Hassleblad and stay glued on to everything this company endeavor. I feel like I can relate as a beginner photographer. Thank you guys for this aspiring video...

I have a mint condition Hasselblad X-Pan that hasn't had a roll of film through it yet... it even has the original Kodak batteries for it in the shrinkwrap... I'll be selling it in August 2017 so that it has a 'new home'. Thanks for putting in the time for prepping/researching this episode! :)

Yo Chelsea's dress slays!

Just want to say one thing: not only did Hasselblad cameras photograph famous musicians and create a look everyone wanted to emulate, but many of those same musicians played on the Swedish Hagström guitars. Just to mention a few: Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and, to nobodies surprise, Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame.

Loved this episode! I'm sure it was a lot of research, but it all paid off. Jordan @ TCSTV

Thanks guys, I really love these histories you've put together & can't wait for the next one!

RE: @15:44 - when you take apart a Hasselblad, you see it's very much a clock inside. Zero wires, just springs and gears -- it's very very cool in an oldschool way.

I love, love, love when you two do history episodes. I love your technical stuff, too, but the history stuff, and creative inspiration stuff, is really fantastic. I hope for more, soon!

The videos you've done on the history of the various camera companies are amazing. I have so much more appreciation for how the cameras today came to be when I watch videos like this.

Amazing video, thank you for presenting the history in such a clear and concise way. Proud to say I just adopted my first Hasselblad H5D, the most insane camera I've ever used

I really like these history videos, please keep making them. :)

Holy shot. Never have I ever clicked on a video so fast! Also shout out to Justin for being awesome!!!!

Yes! I've been waiting for this one, and plan on listening to it during my next commute later this week. Love your historical podcasts!

You guys are the best. Great reviews, photographic history and tremendous dynamic in video. Chelsea love your humor and comments, brilliant! Thank you!

Back in the 90s when shooting weddings I wanted a hassie so badly but the price was out of my league so settled for a Bronica etrsi which I still use to this day. These days I shoot landscapes with it and love the thing to bits. Awesome episode again thanks ❤️📷❤️

Well done guys, enjoyed listening while editing photos. Victor looked like a cool guy walking around with that bird sound recording gear back in the day.

I JUST DISCOVERED THAT (oops caps lock) you guys are doing these "history of" videos - I love it! I've spent a lot of time in the last few years learning about photography techniques from you and similar channels, but i've hardly ever looked into the history of the various companies - it's binge watching time!!!

Great show, relaxed and informative.. I was impressed with the film showing the first practical hearing aid at about 5:30 from the start

32:40 The X-Pan does not use the space of 3 frames for one exposure. The X-Pan frames are 65x24 mm, so not even twice as wide as regular 36x24 mm frames.

I was going to make a video like this... But it wasn't worth the Hassel.

This is by far my favorite video. Thanks Chelsea!!!

I love how you said "Fotografiska" // a swede

I really love this format. Really informative and entertaining. Cheers

I found your channel looking for technical info about digital photography. I picked up photography in my college way back in the film and manual focus days and now trying to adjust to the modern age. But I’m enjoying the historic/ story videos more and more. I’m not sure if it’s bringing out the nerd or art student in me. Looking forward to more videos.

I had almost erased it from my memory..... I once had a Kiev 88, a more or less copied version of the 1600 F. It even worked well and reliably, which was not the case with every copy. I just remembered, when I saw the pictures of the 1600 F. :-) Great channel and really great history lessons here. Thank you!

This was educational and inspirational. This is KZfaq at its best, thanks T&C

Fantastic pair one of best presentation you two have done . Brilliant work .

Excellent video! I think Victor would be proud of where Hasselblad are now. I would love to have the X1D just to have some Hasselblad history in my home.

Tony, Chelsea, I lOVE that you did this! Thank you!

Please do a Pentax History video in the future. I would really enjoy watching one of those. To my understanding they brought the first SLR to Japan, created the modern viewfinder, and made the first AF mount. They are also the only brand that allows saving as DNG

That is not Neil Armstrong, it is Buzz Aldrin.

Like this videos on the history of photography and photography companies , very interesting , neatly done and well researched /presented ... 10/10,......:)

My analog hasselblad is my favourite camera, just absolutly love using it ! :)

Hi Tony, I have a hunch for why the astronauts chose Hasselblad. They were mostly trained Air force pilots, Neil Armstrong was. May be that's why they were quite aware of the advantages of choosing those machines

I almost bought a moto z force droid phone for the hasselblad camera addon... super cool! and thanks for the awesome podcast.

Great history lesson, thank you! BTW - Rolleiflex did end up making a medium format SLR, the SL66 that went into production in 1966.

Excellent. Thorough. Captivated my interest. You guys rock.

I've brought my Hasselblad 500C/M everywhere since I got it back in 2014. It's reliable. When you're in the arctic desert of Greenland with temperatures of -37 C, ice on your moustache, water bottles frozen, batteries for your DSLR dying, straps on your backpack snapping and breaking, the 500C/M will still do exactly what you tell it to. No more, no less. It's a camera born out of passion, incapable of compromising.

Loving this series keep it up guys!!!!

Excellent! Hasselblad is like vintage wine! Love it.

Yes, that was a very well done piece of heartfelt journalism (agreeing with previous comments). I love you two, am astounded when I mention your name/channel to other photographers and they say, "Who?" Thank you. 🦅

The best your material. Every history factory is the best:)

Very insightful and enjoyable. Thank you!

Thanks for the emphasis on Viktor Hasselblad being a birder. Perhaps that's why he developed cameras in a square format. Birds have erratic behaviors, and the square accommodates the different crop possibilities, and allows a single orientation of the camera in the hand. It's definitely worth noting that now, with digital sensors, there's absolutely no reason to design under the restrictions of the use of 35mm movie film, producing the 2x3 rectangle that's so common. Time now to go back to the square capture area, and utilizing the most of any lens' circular image area.

How interesting the history of Hasselblad! Thanks guys

What an amazing person -well done T&C.

Great video! Great story!

I finally got my dream Hasselblad camera last year!

Thank you for presenting the history of Hasselblad. I shot a 500C along with a Leicaflex until I was forced to go digital. I also used Nikons. My last Nikon film camera was an F4. It is a pretty good camera but not close to the same class as Hasselblad or Leica. You are so right about the feel. When you shoot a Hassy, it feels like nothing else. As Y'all said, if you do not own one, you want one.

Man this lady is beautiful

Thank you for sharing - time and trouble appreciated :)

Loving all the history videos.

Thanks for that, it was fascinating. I hope Hassleblad give you the X1D to review. Having used Hassleblads in the past, there is nostalgia sure, but I wouldn't want to go back to the physics of medium format. We are now spoilt by e35mm, its slightness, its incredible image and small/lighter lenses. Like the full circle analogy, that drone company takes over minority shares of company originally formed for aerial reconnaissance

I am continually amazed by Chelsea's ability to look and act both goofy, and hot simultaneously.

Any plans of a "History of Mamiya" video? My first proper camera was a 35mm 1000DTL and fell in love with photography with that.

Hasselblad story reminds me of the death of the Amiga computer, thanks to Commodore!

I love my TX-1 (Xpan) someday I'd love to have a 500cm/503... Someday!

excellent I like this series a lot Thank you

Neil is turning in his grave that you would mistake Buzz for him!

Hasselblad body with Carl Zeiss glass was heaven:) I never focused thru the lens for my landscape pictures. only external light meeter and index on the lens. You didnt shoot pictures, you made one.:)

I love shows like this...you guys are uniquely awesome!!! 10 likes for you guys.

Tony is going to be the first tourist on the moon with a metal detector looking for a Hasselblad.

Great history lesson.

I am hunting for a reference to augment a story from the motordrive part of the story...so far not finding one.....But the story as I know it goes like this....In around 1987, I was in a color photography class at BYU and the day we were going on a field day to shoot turned against us when the weather got too severe,,,so the instructor spent the class period showing us pieces from his own collection of camera related memorabilia. In the early 60s he was a young engineer working for NASA ,,his specialty was making components of the space vehicles smaller and lighter. One day the bosses came in with on of the 'Blads that they had been using for flights and asked them to create an auto film advance mechanism..(By the way,,the reason Hasselblads were chosen--outside of their rug

Check out home made documentaries (it was a mercury astronaut who was a camera buff and wanted to document his mission) he chose hasselblad on their known merits... NASA was impressed and that forged the link NASA and hasselblad...

Very nice story... coming from camera for airplanes and finish on Chinese drones... a part of history is there :)

What a nice video, thank you I know that I am trying to but together the money to get a Hasselblad X1d.

Video @ 13:26 "he's developed this interchangeable system" - Actually, Victor Hasselblad met Ludwig Bentzin (son of Curt Bentzin), who then showed Victor the Primarflex camera; Victor Hasselblad a few years later basically copied its design...

I love that black dress that Chelsea is wearing no wait a minute what I meant to say is I love Chelsea and that black dress. By the way the show is also very entertaining I often wondered what the back story was on Hasselblad.

The fact the camera MAN does not have a hasselblad is shocking! Would be a turn around episode if you did with with a hasselblad500c the same moon model!

I listen to this while organizing my travel photos

Fun one! Thank you.

Dang. Wondering if I should have held on to those four Hasselblad backs I got from a NASA auction for $1200.

I don't want to reduce Hasselblad's later technological gains. But it's worth to notice that the original cameras as well as the optics were based on German ingenuity, like the first Japanese cameras were. The best lenses still are. One place the Hasselblad camera has never been is on the Moon, at least not in the shape of a roll film camera loaded with Kodak Ektachrome 160. This means that no Hasselblad camera, specialized or not, was ever brought to the Moon during the Apollo project. An impossible number of images allegedly taken with a Hasselblad camera on the Moon during Apollo 11 to 17 shows anomalies that reveals the presence of an atmosphere, i.e. they could not have been taken in an almost total vacuum. Newer research has revealed that American spy satellites from the same era, just orbiting the Earth, had to store the same kind of film material in pressurized compartments in those satellites to avoid the emulsions to crack up due to escaping moisture and become useless. The Hasselblad camera has at the most been orbiting the Earth in low orbit and that goes for any human being too. So why keep running with the official false narrative claiming a "Man on the Moon". There were quite good reasons to create the illusion in the late sixties, but the date for letting the world know the truth is largely exceeded. The late 50 year anniversary was repulsive propaganda. Actually NASA itself has indirectly confirmed at more than one occasion that current space technology is still insufficient to bring human beings further away from the Earth than into low orbit (the ISS). The never ending hyping of such a monumental fraud has become a hindrance for NASA to demonstrate progression, because everybody with a brain asks the same question: Why is this or that such a huge problem now? - We had the technology in the late sixties - Why not build on that? The answer is - We lost it! - unfortunately. A lie must be protected by new lies. Or as Neil Armstrong put it - "one of truth's protective layers." Maybe he was referring to the van Allen belts. Beyond the belts the space is even more hostile. We are living in a more protective earthly environment than we understand - apparently. The proper answer from NASA would be. We never had the technology. The problem is exponentially greater than anybody believed. So, if you guys are really interested in history - please dig deeper.

I shoot hasselblad I know you guys have had rants about the validity today, but I love this story this is great thanks for researching and sharing

hey friends ! maybe a little bit late but i watch this episode only now and want to correct the info about Rolleiflex - they also built single lens cameras very similar to Hasselblad body - Rolleiflex 6000 series like 6006, Rolleiflex 6008i and also legend Rolleiflex_SLX.

watching this in 2021 and OnePlus has release OnePlus 9 Pro with hasseblad camera, would be cool if you've reviewed it

Yay Hasselblad!! I bought mine earlier this year.....LOVE it! 500CM..

@3:48 Hasselblads Fotografiska AB (aktiebolag) = Hasselblad's Photographic Stock Company (limited company)

Pity you skipped over the 1000F and only briefly mentioned the 1600F. It's the reason why the 500C was designed "500" - basically they all designated the maximum shutter speed of that particular model. There's also a KZfaq video on how the 500 became known to NASA through one of their astronauts.

Great video, side note chelsea cam is way off white balance, balanced too yellow. It’s pulling my brain apart

Moiré pattern on Tony's shirt!

Well I liked it but the company says differently about the story about the German Camera. Victor was more of mechanical engineer as he did learn about the clockworks of cameras. He made a copy of the German camera and presented it to the Swedish government. When asked if he could make this camera he said yes but I can make a better one.

I've still got my 500cm from 1979, I think my Father paid $1100 for it. Still works fine. Those cameras fromm the film days were the best. I would not pay 30K or more for a new digital Hblad.

Chelsea rocking the shoulders today!

I actually shot birds with a 203 FE and 350mm lens. It was not the right tool, but I learned a lot.

I expect every camera left on the moon turned into a rock they could bring back! :-)

I think Mars is only the stepping stone. The end game is the Asteroid belt for the precious metals required for advanced batteries.

Great Video! Really interessting. But you spelled Wikipedia wrong at the end ;)

nice channel📸

So when I bought a phantom 4, I might have been helping Hasselblad, cool.

You forgot to say, that the very first HASSY, had a ........KODAK lens........They then switched to ZEISS ( of germany ), shortly there after.

32:30 Hasselblad X pan uses three exposers side by side... ?