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Great video and great story about this cameras history. !

The camera is a peace of history and I am very satisfied to have one myself. Nice presentation.

I would love to find one just like that, well taken care of and in great condition.

Thanks. You make it look easy. I'm not sure that this isn't faster than some of the expensive automated systems.

Now this looks like a fun time!! Thanks for sharing ❤

I still have one that was my grandma's and another one I pickup somewhere.

Great video

$108 in year 1966 will be $1,008 in year 2023, quite expansive. I bought a nice well kept working Minox B from e-Bay for about $60, but I can not get 11mm films.

Amazing story and very descriptive, man I imagine the joy of getting that camera for your graduation highschool gift! Must’ve felt like you were James Bond! So cool you still have all the accessories to show us. Those germans sure were innovative!

I have the model 2 sitting right here :)

Thanks for your thorough explanation of this lovely camera! Greetings from Austria.

What brand are the extension tubs you are using?

Great video! Thanks for sharing it!

Many thanks for sharing your brilliant video of these beautiful creatures!🙏

I currently have this camera in 2022. Acquired it from my Mother back in the mid-60s and used it to take pictures while in elementary to junior high schools. I think she acquired it from her Mother in the late 1930s to early 1940s. I'm passing it on to my Niece to have as a family heir loom and hope she finds the film to use in it as she is a professional photographer now. Great video and clearly explains all parts, disassembly & reassembly. Thank you for posting this so younger photographers know of this particular camera from the early 20th Century.

I have one sitting on my shelf. Need to get some film

I just purchased a hasselblad 500cm that came with a complete kit with most of the goodies you have. I’m glad I found the video because I didn’t know about the sports finder. Awesome video sir.

Excellent! Just subscribed. I need to work out a set up for slide duplication using my Canon R5 (high res mirrorless) body and my 2:1 macro lens (full manual) that has 67 mm filter threads. Doable? Also, is it a problem to use a step down ring - or series of rings - to go from 67 mm filter thread on my lens down to the ES-1 52 mm size?

Place film between two pieces of anti-newton glass.

"...there's no batteries needed, everything is gears and springs and levers" - the essence of a Hasselblad 500C/M in a nutshell. Love the real-world provenance but I am curious as to why Lou stepped down from a Hasselblad 500C/M to a Mamiya 645. I guess people want different things. Thought I was a Hasselblad know-all but that rubber lens shade threw me - never come across one before. Still can't get over the fact that this is a 45 year-old ensemble - I think it would be fair to say each owner treated it with care. All in all, a remarkable ode to friendship via photography.

Thanks for a very well explained, informative and helpful video. You mentioned that the ES1 has a 52mm thread - do you know whether the ES2 uses the same thread?

The Film Photography Project is now making 620 film and selling extra spools as well.

First I’d like to say thank you for a very informative video. I just bought a vintage Nikon slide copier on eBay. Now about the extension tubes. I’m not understanding why you did not put extension tubes to have the lens farther from the sensor, perhaps needing fewer tubes in front of the lens? I’ve never used extension tubes, but I’ve always seen pics of them between the lens and camera? Thanks for your help 😀👍❤️

hi grandppa

Hi Earl , your video is extremely informative as you touched on all aspects precisely, your delivery is top-notch looking forward to watching more of your videos Cheers & again great work !!!

Hello. If I use a Full Frame 36 MP camera to copy slides, will images have a better quality than with a 24 MP CROP camera ? Are Full Frame and the 36 MP needed to copy Slides ?

Dear Earl Great detailed proffesional video. Very clear and very helpful. Thank you so much, from Tel Aviv.

Hi Earl and many thanks for this very informative video. Decades ago I took a substantial number of pictures an a Instamatic camera on the 12x format. I still have a lot of these, some as framed color slides and others as color negative film in pieces of four frames. I want to have them available on my computer and have made an unsuccessful attempt using a Epson V370 flatbed scanner. It turned out that this model only supports the 35 mm format and is accompanied with some dreadful computer software which was far beyond my understanding, I am not a professional photographer as you may guess from my Instamatic past. Rather than buying some expensive equipment for this project I would prefer to use my Nikon D3300 with a Nikor 18-55 or the 18-155 zoom lenses - possibly accompanied by a macro adapter lens and lens extenders which I already have. Do you have some advice or recommendations how I should proceed ?

Great video Earl!

Canon and Nikon on the same thumb. Something is not right here.

Got my B and a developing tank. All I need now to start using it is a film splicer. Will try to make one myself. I'm truly looking forward to seeing the pictures it will produce for the first time. A friend of mine got one in the late 70's. Long before digital. So I never saw any of the pictures made from it.

Where can I find this extension tubes 52mm ? Have you I Link?

Hi this is great!. Which way do you put the slide in the holder? It looked like you did the words outward?

Just place the light source behind the slide holder, held in place how ever keeping everything as still as possible, not moving around. There’s a limit to post production depending on your software.

I am very grateful for all the knowledge you’ve shared with all of us… I love how simple and effective your explanations were, I’ve watched hundreds of videos on Hasselblads since I got mine and I enjoyed your video the most! Thank you so much!!!

Earl, great video and great shot of you at Yosemite. If you ever want to sell that quick focus ring attachment please let me know.

Great video, pointed out to me that I should go ahead and get the adapter for stability’s sake. Do you have a brand name for the extension tubes you used? I’m having trouble finding the right size (ie 52mm) in my searches.

Such a NICE and ENJOYABLE presentation, clearly and patiently done, in details; thank you…looking forward to seeing more…

I am a Hasselblad enthusiast also - but what I really enjoyed was hearing your story and that of your camera. Mine gear is just eBay and camera shop purchases - but I suppose their story starts with me now. What a great friend you have to gift you such a beautiful camera set up. It is so fantastic to hear such stories and how the camera is continuing its story with you.

Hey I just bought one, do you know where I can purchase film for it online?

Wow. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. I’ve got a Canon 5DsR, which is basically a higher Rez 5D3 like yours and also a Canon 100mm macro like yours and have been wondering how to rig it to a Nikon ES-2. This is it. As you said in a reply to another post, extension tubes + step-down ring = 101mm. That’s my answer.

Love the story of your 500CM Earl. That camera is in good hands!

Hello Earl, I started watching your camera videos as I have recently retired, and decided to collect all of the cameras I have ever owned since aged 15. As my father came from Italy I then decided to look at your Italy 2019 video. I was amazed by your photographs, and realised that you don't just collect cameras, but you compose and take beautiful photographs too. You ought to do a video of some of your individual photographs, explaining how you composed them and what you did about lighting. You would undoubtedly attract more viewers, as composing photographs is the most important part of photography. Well done Earl, Andrew C

thank you！very helpful！

Thank you for a very clear and instructive video. I'll use the ES-2 with my 100mm Tokina macro lens on a Nikon D7100 crop sensor body. Now, I just have to figure out the length of spacer tube needed to produce a 1:1 magnification, corrected for the smaller crop sensor, so that the entire 35mm film negative can be photographed in RAW. This should be simple to figure out by just hand holding the camera with the attached macro lens and seeing what the spacing distance is between the lens' filter plane and the slide's surface (ie the corrected "working distance") which would yield a fully reproduced 1:1 slide image. I'll review your post processing method, too. Thanks again. NY

very much enjoyed this Earl!

Hi Earl, Your method looks straightforward. I'll be using a Canon 100mm L f/2.8 macro lens (67mm filter threads) with a Canon 1.6x crop body. I need about 7" distance between the lens and slide to get a frame-filling image. I would need a 67mm to 52mm step-down ring, but the problem is finding is the threaded extension tubes. I clicked on your Amazon link for the extension tubes but it took me to a different product that's no longer available. Is this the type of extension tubes I need? www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/888031-REG/vello_ext_nfm_manual_extension_tube_set.html/overview I looked at all the comments and they won't give a straightforward answer about the thread diameter, and keep saying that they aren't designed to screw into the lens's filter threads.

Very informative and heartwarming to know the story and friendship behind the camera. Thank you!!

Great video!! I’m going to get this setup for my EOS R and 100mm 2.8