She is a beauty. And is that a planar?
Yes indeed. I need to expand my Hasselblad kit. The initial kit I bought was this body(500C, from 1960) with a 12 back and an A12 back plus a 50mm Distagon, 80mm Planar, 150mm Sonnar and 250mm Sonnar. That covers me pretty well, but I wouldn't mind a T* Planar and Distagon. I'd love a 40mm, but they're huge. My current kit, even though they're old(as best as I can tell the original owner bought one lens a year from 1960 to 1963) covers the range pretty well at least.
For reals where do you get your old cameras?
I've bought some from Ebay, some from classifieds on other sites, some from KEH, but by far and away my favorite source was Chuck Rubin Photographics in Louisville. From probably 2013 up until the plague hit last year, quite literally nearly every Friday afternoon from the time I got off work to the time he closed at 6:00 I'd go in, BS for a while, rummage through piles of crap, and almost always leave with something. I use to joke about how I'd trip over something in the shop and buying it, but if you saw it you'd see that "tripping over an F2" wasn't exactly a difficult thing to do. It was a magical place. There were some incredible photographers there too(including Chuck himself) and I learned a lot just in that little semicircle of chairs in the middle of the tiny shop.
Chuck took the chance during COVID to seriously clean out, downsize, and move to a new location. I've talked to him a few times, but haven't been to the new store.
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