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Hasselblad 500 EL/M is medium format film SLR system camera with motor drive, manufactured by Victor Hasselblad Aktiebolag, Göteborg, Sweden, and produced between 1971-84.

EL/M is a modified version of the EL, 'M' means modified, 'EL' electric.

Hasselblad 500 EL is a system camera this means that almost everything is interchangeable: lens, prism/finder, and film back.

In 1964 Hasselblad started production of a motorized camera, the 500 EL. Apart from the housing that incorporates the motor drive and the NiCd-batteries this camera is similar in appearance and operation to the Hasselblad 500 C and uses the same magazines, lenses and viewfinders.

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2. Hasselblad recommends that you have your camera serviced every year if it is in constant use, and every two or three years if it gets less use. If you have a 500 EL, 500 EL/M or 500 ELX body and the battery dies while the camera is winding, don't panic! Simply remove the battery, insert a charged battery, and the body will complete the cycle.

The body is in V-system 500 series, uses only leaf-shutter lenses. There are various Carl Zeiss made C, CB, CFi/CFE series as Distagon, Planar, Biogon, Sonnar type lenses, with various focal lengths, with Compur shutter for 500 series.

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Hasselblad was the company that first developed the professional medium format modular SLR.Perhaps the most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo program missions when man first landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras.Hasselblad's traditional V-System cameras remain widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers. One reason is a reputation for long service life and quality of available lenses.

There are too many accessories for the EL cameras.

• 2Specifications

EL models

• 500 EL 1964–70
• 500 EL/M 1971–84, introduced user-interchangeable screen,
• 500 ELX 1984–88, introduced TTL-flash sensor and larger non-vignetting mirror,
• 553 ELX introduced new internal light-absorbing coating and use of AA-batteries,
• 555 ELD 1998–2006, introduced new mirror mechanics and electronic contacts for communication with digital backs.

Specifications

• Film: 120 roll, picture size: 6x6cm, or 6x4.5 format with special magazine
• Plate on top of the camera: Hasselblad
• Plate on the left side of the camera: 500EL/M
• Lens: The standard lens of this camera was Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8
  • Mount: special bayonet
  • The lens in the photos: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 250mm f/5.6, chrome finish, auto-diaphragm, filter thread: 50mm producing date: 1968
    • Aperture: f/5.6 - f/45
    • Focus range: for this lens: 2.5-60m +inf
    • Engraving on the lens: Lens Made in West-Germany
    • Two movable DOF indicatorson the lens
  • Diaphragm knob: on the lens for checking DOF on the ground-glass screen
  • Lens release: by a knob on front of the camera, beside the lover right side of the lens;
  • The lens can be remowed only when the motor drive selector on 'O' or 'A'.
  • Important when mounting the lens its shutter must be cocked, the simple way to cock shutter is to insert a coin into the slot on the cocking shaft of the lens and turn to clockwise. Attention that the two red dots must be opposite.
• Focusing: via Fresnel matte screen
• Shutter: Synchro-Compur, central leaf shutter in the lens
  • Speeds: 1-1/500 +B
  • Setting: ring and scale on the lens
• Exposure value system: aperture and speeds rings move together with the lock catch on the lens; 2-18 EV index, red scale numbers and locking catch on the lens; unlock the catch for manual settings
• Shutter release: a silver button on the front right side of the camera
• Remote release socket: for radio control or a special cable release, above the shutter release button
• Winding and cocking: by built-in motor-drive only, the shutter in the lens is cocked by means of the cocking shaft on the body
• Motor drive settings: dial on the right side of the camera
  • O = Single shot normal mode
  • S = mirror pre-release
  • A = continual motor-drive mode as long as shutter button is held down
  • AS = continual motor drive + mirror held up between frames
  • SR = mirror pre-release and mirror is held up after shutter release (for the 60mm Biogon and some other lenses with deep lens rear projection)
• Mirror: instant return type by motor drive
• L O T selector lever: T: time exposure, O: speeds, L: shutter release lock,on the right lover side of the camera
• Frame counter: a window on the right side of the magazine w/ a small signal window, white: the camera is ready, red: the film is not advanced
• Viewfinder: Waist level finder, Fresnel lens and grainless ground-glass screen, w/central cross , w/ black lines for 6x4.5 format
  • Hood opens by a catch on top of the hood, w/ fine focusing magnifier
  • Focusing hood and screen are interchangeable
• Flash PC socket: fully sync, on the lens, select M X V by the lever after moving the catch on the lens forward just beside it
• Self-timer: by M X V selector lever on the lens, set to V
• Fitting for accessory items: on the left side of the camera, w/ a stamping '500 EL/M, Made in Sweden by Victor Hasselblad'
• Back cover: as an interchangeable film magazine, removes by a latch on top of the magazine, w/ a memory dial
• Film loading: Pull-out the film loading part from the camera via turning the un-lock lever on left side of the magazine; load the film to take-up spool; film advance pop-up lever on the right side of the magazine, turn it until zero appears in the frame counter window
  • Caution: before the replacement of the standard film magazine the dark slide must be mounted in its slot; when taking the picture pull-out away the dark slide. Shutter release do not work when the dark slide is in its slot. The slot is on the left side of the camera.
• Others: Tripod socket 1/4 inch; Strap buttons
• Batteries: two 3V Ni-Cad rechargeable battery (not manufacturing anymore), serial connection
  • If necessary only one battery can drive the motor.
  • Motor drive can work with 9V.
  • There are many adapters in the market for 9V alkaline or L1424 Lithium CR-P2 batteries.
  • 9V battery in an adapter takes approx. 800 shots or more .
  • Battery compartment: on the lover left side of the camera , opens by the latch on it, there is a 1.6 amp fuse in it also
• DIN type connector: on the right lover side of the camera, for mains power, with an adaptor 500mA at 6VDC, and the internal batteries must be removed
  • Note: This DIN socket also can be used as a remote control socket by a special device.
  • On/off switch: none
• Body: metal; Weight: body: 1424g wo/ batteries; lens: 922g

Body dating

• First two letters of the seial number show the manufacturing year,
• as to this chart: V=1 H=2 P=3 I=4 C=5 T=6 U=7 R=8 E=9 S=0 ^[1]

Lens dating

• For C and C T* lenses: there should be a 3-digit or 4-digit number in red lettering in the lens mount.
• This is the manufacturing date code.
• The last two digits are the month.
• The first one or two digits are the year.
• Add this to 1957

References

1. ↑Body and lens dating as to Karen Nakamura

Links

• Hasselblad 500 EL/M at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr (in French)

Overview and Personal Comments

The Hasselblad 500 series is a very successful line of single-lens reflex medium format cameras made by the Hasselbald Corporation of Sweden, using German-made Carl Zeiss lenses with built-in leaf shutters. There are two lines in the 500-series: the non-motorized 500C series and the motorized 500EL series. The motorized 500 EL series was widely used by studio photographers because it afforded excellent optics and great high-speed flash synchronization with the ease of a motor drive and remote control switch. The EL cameras are a bit heavy for handheld use. I wouldn't recommend one as your only 'blad but they make a nice second body for studio use. Using the text or images on this website without permission on an ebay auction or any other site is a violation of federal law.

This page covers just the motorized Hasselblad 500 EL body. If you want more information about the non-motorized 500C, 500CM, etc., want more information about lenses, backs or prisms, or aren't familiar with the Hasselblad 500 system as a whole, then please go to my Hasselblad 500 system page first for background reading. If you want more information about the focal-plane medium format series, go to my Hassselblad 200/2000 series page.

Like the non-motorized 500 series, the Hasselblad EL is a system camera. This means that almost everything is interchangeable: lens, prism/finder, and film back. This allows for tremendous flexibility. The square 6x6 format (56mm x 56mm) on medium format film makes the most of the image circle from smaller lens, means that you do not have to turn the camera sideways for portrait photographs, and allows for cropping flexibility later on. It also allows for 12 shots on a standard 120 roll; or 16 on a 120 roll using a 6x4.5 format back. For more information on film backs, please go to the Hasselblad 500 page, I also have a dedicated page for metered and non-metered Hassselblad prism finders.

Some people (most notably school photographers) used to use long-roll 70mm film backs on their motorized Hasselblads because they could get 200+ shots from a roll. But 70mm film is becoming increasingly hard to obtain and develop. As a result, 70mm film backs are very inexpensive on the used market. I would not recommend getting one, however, unless you can secure film for it at a reasonable cost.

History of the 'Blad
You can read about the early Hasselblad history on my Hasselblad 500 series page. In fact, you might want to go there right now before returning here.

The first motorized 500 model, the 500EL, came out in 19xx it was was made until 1970.The next model, the 500 EL/M, wasproduced from 1970 until 1989. The 'M' means Modified. One of the major changes was user-replaceable focusing screens. In the photograph right, you can see the two tabs that hold the screen in. Pushing these outwards with your fingernail allows the screen to pop out.

Much later on (in the late 1980s), Hasselblad replaced the older Hasselblad screens in the 500C/Ms with the brighter Minolta-made Acute-Matte fresnel focusing screen. You can recognize the second-generation Acute-Matte D screens by the two small D-shaped notches in the bottom right or left corner (barely visible in bottom right corner of the screen in the photo above). Many photographers with 500EL/Ms replaced their older dimmer screens with Acute Mattes when they came out, so you'll find many 500EL/Ms with them. Ask before buying, though!

The 500 ELs took a special ni-cad rechargeable battery that isn't sold anymore, but you can buy adapters so that it can take a 9v alkaline battery or lithium CR-P2 or 2CR5 battery instead. You can see an example of such an adapter to your right here.

After the 500 EL/M, there were other models in the motorized 500 line, most with relatively minor revisions and some features removed for cost-cutting purposes. The 503EL/X with TTL OTF (through-the-lens off the film) metering was a god-send for some wedding photographers who shoot PJ (photo-journalist) style using wide, tele or other non-standard lenses; but it's not that critical (non-TTL auto-flash works well enough for most of us).

The latest EL model, the 500 EL/D was designed especially for digital film backs. It's still quite popular for this purpose, so they are much more rarer on the secondary market.

Hasselblad 500cm Service Manual

I believe the 500EL/M is the minimum model you should buy used. The 500EL models are now almost 40 years old and some were used pretty heavily in studio settings. Some are in good shape, but others need CLAs (clean-lube-adjusts). An Acute-Matte screen costs about $100-300 separately (depending on its vintage, D's are more expensive) so try to buy a 500EL/M which has one already installed. A good condition 500EL/M body should cost you less than $500, often much less.

Using a Hasselblad 500 EL
Using a 500 EL series camera is practically the same as a 500 series, the only difference is that you don't have to wind the film yourself. In the Hasselblad 500 series, the camera body is just the body, it provides very little functionality other than a mirror and film crank. With the mirror crank replaced by the motor drive, there isn't much left to do on the 500EL.

Dating a Hasselblad
Don't go on a blind date and buy a camera that you don't know its age! You can date the manufacture of your Hasselblad bodies and backs using the following serial number code. Using the first two letters of the serial number and converting them against the chart, I find that my 500EL body (serial #USExxxxx) was made in 1970; my 500C/M in 84 (#RI1293xxx); and my film back (serial #UC47xxxx) in 1975:

Just as important as the age is how many rolls went through it. Cameras don't like to be abused - so don't buy a camera that's been retired from a professional photography studio. Cameras also don't like to not be used, so don't buy a shrinkwrapped camera from 1970 and expect it to work (keep it for its collectible value in the shrinkwrap). The best used camera is from a retired dentist who would use it once every few weeks to take a few snapshoots and otherwise babied it.

Dating Lenses: You can also date the lens manufacture for C and C T* lenses. Zeiss doesn't use Hasselblad's VHPICTURES, but if you take the lens off the camera and look at the rear element, there should be a 3-digit or 4-digit number in red lettering on the shroud. You may have to focus the lens to infinity or to the closest focus distance in order to reveal it. This is the manufacturing date code. In order to decode it:

Hasselblad 500 El M User Manual 2017

• The last two digits are the month
• The first one or two digits are the year. Add this to 1957.

So my 50mm Distagon has a date code of '806'. This means it was made in June of 1965. My 80mm C T* has a date code of '1605'. This means it was made in May of 1973.

CF lenses use a different code: one letter and two digits. The letter is the month (A=Jan; B = Feb; C=March; D= April) and the two digits are the year flipped. So 28 = 82 = 1982. So F58 = June 1985.

Hasselblad 500 C M Camera

I haven't discovered the code for CFE lenses yet.

Technical Details

About the Hasselblad Corporation

Blah blah blah... from a press-release:

Hasselblad 500 El M User Manual Pdf

2003-01-30 Shriro acquires Hasselblad, the Swedish camera manufacturer. The Shriro Group acquires the majority shareholding in Victor Hasselblad AB. The purchase agreement was announced today at a press conference at the Hasselblad premises in the centre of Gothenburg.
- Shriro is well-known to Hasselblad, and has succeeded very well in selling our products into the key markets in Asia, says G?eY?Lan Bernhoff, President and CEO of Victor Hasselblad AB. Shriro is our distributor in several key Asian markets and has, amongst other things shown its capability together with Hasselblad in developing the Japanese and Chinese markets as major outlets for Hasselblad.

The Hasselblad family started its company in 1841. Since mid 1870 Hasselblad has had its centre of operations in the same building downtown Gothenburg. In May this year the company will move to new office and production premises in a newly established high-tech industrial and university area, named Norra a^?vstranden, Gothenburg.

The company has recently carried through a successful, worldwide launch of a new unique camera system, built for traditional film as well as digital photography. The H1camera, which took nearly 6 years to develop from 'idea' to a 'finished product', opens up new markets for Hasselblad. Deliveries of the new system started in December 2002.

Hasselblad today has the most wide spread camera system in the world within the medium format, the so-called V system. This system originates from 1948 and will also in the future be an important part of the sales.

During the latter part of the 90:s Hasselblad has gone through extensive structural changes and when the company moves into the new premises the efficiency gain will be substantial. This move marks the completion of this period of manufacturing and product renewal, and the company is now ready to embark into a new era.

On August 12, 2004, Hasselblad surprised everyone by merging with digital image sensor developer Imacon. The new company will be called Hasselblad Imacon. This is very good news as Imacon is one of the leading vendors of digital backs for medium format systems. This means that we can expect even better incorporation of digital technology into Hasselblad's cameras (most probably only their H1 line since the V system seems to be a dead end).

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