Hasselblad

Hasselblad is a manufacturer Swedish of cameras famous for their great quality, installed with Gothenburg.

History

Founded in 1841, the company makes Import-export first of all. Arvid Viktor Hasselblad, the son of his founder, is impassioned of photography and develops a branch charged to import material of photography. In 1888, he concludes an agreement with George Eastman to distribute in Sweden the products of the new company Eastman Kodak.

At the time of the Second world war, the Swedish government asks Victor Hasselblad (back small son of the founder of the company) to develop apparatuses for its air force, while being based on a specimen recovered on a German plane crushed in Sweden. After the war the production of Hasselblad turns to civil uses and its products acquire a great reputation among the professionals for their quality (objectives Carl Zeiss and use of the Moyen format, generally of the 6x6, giving the negative ones of excellent definition).

The most widespread cases are those of series 500, reflex camera with sight of chest. Their characteristic is to have a Obturateur exchange (each objective is equipped with its own obturator).

The moment of glory of Hasselblad was the use of its apparatuses by NASA, and in particular at the time of the mission Apollo 11 which saw the first man going on the moon.

In August 2004, Hasselblad amalgamated with the Danish company Imacon A/S, specialized in the production of equipment of Numeric photography, confirming the will of Hasselblad to develop in the field of the numerical imagery.

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