{"id":14577,"date":"2019-05-09T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14577"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:30:33","slug":"hasselblad-swc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hasselblad-swc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasselblad SWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14578\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hasselblad-SWC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14578\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hasselblad-SWC-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hasselblad SWC Camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. A rare model of the \u00a0famous Hasselblad 2 1\/4 square camera was auctioned off recently in a PHSC sponsored auction. The family firm with the famous Hasselblad name (F W Hasselblad &amp; Co) was founded in 1841 and a photographic department was added in 1887.<\/p>\n<p>When the second world war was underway, \u00a0Victor Hasselblad decided to make an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hasselblad.com\/history\/\">Aerial camera (the HK-7)<\/a> modelled after a German aerial camera for the Royal Swedish Airforce. A few years after the war, in 1948 Victor Hasselblad marketed the famous 1600F 6&#215;6 cm camera with a Kodak Ektar lens and with both Kodak and Zeiss accessory lenses.\u00a0Victor was well known for trying out his camera designs by photographing birds.<\/p>\n<p>The camera was adopted by professionals around the world. A Hasselblad even went to the moon under the NASA programs. The model we auctioned was an improved version of the Supreme Wide-Angle camera. Both used the Zeiss Biogon 38mm lens. For the first decade the camera used a chrome lens. From c 1969 an anodized black lens barrel was used. On his death he bequeathed about $8 million in USD to the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hasselbladfoundation.org\/wp\/history\/erna-victor\/\">Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation<\/a>&#8220;. Erna was his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. A rare model of the \u00a0famous Hasselblad 2 1\/4 square camera was auctioned off recently in a PHSC sponsored auction. The family firm with the famous Hasselblad name (F W Hasselblad &amp; Co) was founded in 1841 and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hasselblad-swc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2580,2579,398,247,21,23],"class_list":["post-14577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-2-1-4","tag-6x6","tag-camera","tag-hasselblad","tag-kodak","tag-zeiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14584,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions\/14584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}