500C/M question....idiot question time

[sperera]

.....the film camera I use on shoots these days is a 500 C/M.....

ok i feel like an idiot asking this but i honestly have only just noticed this!

.....so here i am preparing for tomorrow's shoot and I took it apart as i always do to make sure there's no crap on the insides etc plus the fact I love to take it apart and hold if you know what i mean.....guilty pleasures and all that......

anyway I shot a few film-less frames when i noticed the shutter (barndoors) on the back of the camera closes as soon as i release the finger from the trigger as opposed to staying open long enough for say a 1 second exposure......

I haven't shot at anything below 1/60 sec for years as i normally use flash heads with the Hasselblad so i haven't seen anything wrong on all the rolls I've shot.....

Unlike what the 503 CW i used to have the 500 C/M has a lever beside the trigger to lock the mirror/rear shutter up....surely the same function as the mirror-up lock under the winder.....

so, can someone enlighten me to the quirks of the 500 C/M design....

I have obviously deduced i need to keep a hold of the trigger well after I've shot a frame at lower speeds.....yes, i feel dumb for this question after all the rolls I've shot....

 

[wbulte]

It is perfectly normal for the barndoors to do as they do on your camera

Indeed for slower shutter speeds you need to keep the shutter release button depressed until the lens shutter has done its thing. I simply programmed my release finger to keep the button depressed 10 seconds (or so) all the time.

Wilko

 

[cs_foto]

.....i noticed the shutter (barndoors) on the back of the camera closes as soon as i release the finger from the trigger as opposed to staying open long enough for say a 1 second exposure......

very interesting discovery!

if you shoot for 1 second exposure and release the trigger before that you indeed expose for less than the actual second...

thanks god i developed a sound driven ritual,

click - >
lens shutter clock - >
beautiful barndoor damped sound.

so in that way i keep my finger (or cable release) pressed, i have to listen to those sounds in that particular order...

who said that appreciating the sound of a hasselblad 'V' shutter was pure fetishism???

 

[polypal]

Indeed for slower shutter speeds you need to keep the shutter release button depressed until the lens shutter has done its thing. I simply programmed my release finger to keep the button depressed 10 seconds (or so) all the time.

Wilko

Slower shutter speeds as in anything under 1/30 of a second.
Older C lenses had a warning for this purpose.
Speeds from 1 second up to 1/30 were marked with a red stripe to remind the user
to keep the release button depressed long enough for the shutter speed used.

 

[fdisilvestro]

If you use the self timer available in C lenses you have to make sure the shutter remains pressed long enough, no matter the shutter speed. You can do this by blocking the shutter in the "T" position or by using a release cable with lock.

I believe that making sure the lens shutter closes before releasing the shutter is even more important in the EL series cameras, since it may try to reload before completing the cycle (I may be wrong on this, but I will not try anyway)

Francisco