At the end of 2024 I got serious about my makeshift darkroom and installed proper ventilation and a real darkroom sink. Little did I know that that was the missing link for a total reformation of my photography. The more I shoot film the less I like digital. The 6x6 Hasselblad is the goldilocks of film cameras in the sense that it's brings the ease of shooting roll film with the enhanced quality of a larger negative. This does come with a cost though. It's one dollar a shot in early 2025. (It's also why I bought the Leica's which allow me the luxury of shooting anything I want as much as I want, like digital, as it's it's only about thirteen cents a shot.) 

          The Hasselblads are also photographic Royalty. From the cover of Abby Road to the Astronaut standing on the moon and not to mention Ansel Adam's photographic of Half Dome, a Hasselblads been there. As Michael Kenna likes to say, "(It's) like an old lawnmower, it just keeps going and going." My Hasselblads were made in 1989 and 1998 respectively. I have a 500 C/M and a 503 CXi. The Cxi adds TTL flash metering which I'll never use. But it's basically just a 500 body if ignore that and they can be had for better prices sometimes over the older 500 C/M's.

          For lenses I have the CF 50mm FLE, the CF 80mm, CF 150mm and CF 250mm. These are some of the highest quality lenses ever made and all can be had for under $1,000 USD. Most can be had for under $500, which is ridiculous and an indictment of our modern throwaway society that prizes convenience over quality.