So my grandpa has an old Hasselblad 500C/M which he gave to me. Its film so how would I develop and use it?
Compared to my Canon 600D, what would the difference in quality be? Will it be more grainy? Do I have to get a good scanner? Where do I get film and what kind of film is used? He doesn’t have any. Will the pictures be really graining. Will the pictures be small? Whats the process between taking the photo and having it in your hands or on your computer? I dont want a dark room in my house!…
… Also is there any 1080p movie mode? lol
honestly there are no buttons on the camera, How do you change shutter speed? But it is very sexy, he has all of the expensive accessories
The thing is that its hard using something like 40 years old. Its hard to believe the quality would be better than the cheapest DSLRs today after all of the technological advancements. But then again its all about the lenses and those lenses are great. Whats your take?
Wow, that’s quite a nice gift! I would suggest you start with this website which is a film photography guide:
http://www.guidetofilmphotography.com/index.html
You may also want to take a photo 101 course and/or read whatever books on the subject you can find in the library. Most people learn on 35mm so you’ll notice that most photo 101 material is based on 35mm rather than the medium format film the Hassey shoots on. The differences in operation are not huge and you could certainly read a 35mm guide and get the basic idea.
You will also need to read the users manual for the 500 c/m which you can Google.
To answer your questions:
1–Film and digital are just two different mediums and there are many types of each with different characteristics. Comparisons are complicated and require study. Neither is “better” than the other, each has strengths and weaknesses in relation to particular goals.
2–Grain, just like noise with digital, is determined by the quality of the “sensor” and the ISO. There are grainy high speed films such as Kodak TMAX P3200 and very grainless films like Fuji Velvia. How each is shot and processed affects the amount and quality of grain. I can tell you that images made by your 600D at high ISO will be much more noisy than images at similar ISO with proper shooting and developing from the Hasselblad. Why? the sensor, or image capture area of the Hasselblad is much larger than that of your DSLR, which means higher resolution and finer grain/noise.
3–You can get a scanner if you want or you can have the lab that processes your film scan it too. A cheap Epson V500 will scan your film just fine if you want to do it at home. Scanning can be almost as complicated as learning how to use a new camera so I’d recommend just taking things one step at a tyme and focus on learning to select film, shoot it and take it to a lab. Later you can get more involved in the processes.
4–There are many many types of film. It’s good he doesn’t have any because it would probably be expired if he did! I would suggest starting out with Kodak Tri-X 400 if you want b&w and have a local lab to process it or plan on taking a class where you can do so yourself. If you want to shoot color and have a lab to do that (colour is more difficult to do oneself) I would suggest Kodak Ektar 100 and Kodak Portra 400. You can use 120 or 220 film. The only difference is in the number of shots you get on each roll, twice as many on the 220. Which film you use is dependent on which back you have to load the film into.
5–What do you mean by asking if the pictures will be small? The negatives will be about the size of your palm. The prints from these negatives can be enlarged to the size of a billboard.
6–The process: Shoot, process, scan, upload. You don’t need a darkroom for anything but printing. You can also have a lab do all the work or work at a school lab. Nobody builds a full lab just to learn basic film photography.
7–What sense would it make for a STILL FILM camera to have a VIDEO mode?! Are you kidding?! 1080p sucks compared to 70mm motion picture film anyway.
8–Read the users manual for the camera in order to learn to operate it. They don’t write users manuals so you can not bother reading them and just asking others how to use the camera. The camera is MECHANICAL, not digital. There are not computers. When you rotate dials, pull levers, press buttons, etc, you directly set mechanical operations in motion. That is the beauty of it and the reason why, after 50 years, it still works and your 600D will be useless in 10 to 20.
9–Advances in technology have largely been geared toward making things easier, not necessarily “better.” You are half right. It’s about lenses and it’s about the quality of the recording medium. Hasselblad makes DLSR’s now. They cost more than a good car and take the same lenses as the 500 c/m. Yet the quality is still different, because the thing the lenses “write on” is totally different.
I hope you enjoy your Hassey and really get to know it and value what it has to offer. It will make you slow down, learn and think about things instead of just rattle off shots fairly carelessly. It will help you see that it is not so much the newness, cost or type of camera that makes a quality, worthwhile photo, so much as the talent, skill and ability of the photographer.
Enjoy!
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