Hasselblad 500C/M Instruction Manual page 34

Fig 56
HOW TO HOLD THE SWC/M
Fig. 56 shows the best way to hold the
SWC/M in hand-held shooting. You can
keep the spirit level in view without removing
your eye from the viewfinder. You cradle the
lens in your left hand with your thumb and in-
dex finger curled around the focusing ring.
Your right hand steadies your grip, while
your right index finger rests on the shutter
release.
MAIN CAMERA COMPONENTS
The Hasselblad Super Wide C/M consists of
three main components:
The camera body with its permanently at-
tached Biogon lens, the detachable optical
viewfinder, and the interchangeable film
magazine which also fits the other Hasselblad
cameras.
VIEWFINDERS (Figs. 57—58)
The optical viewfinder (1) shows the picture
area and a simultaneous view—via the reflec-
ting prism (26)—of the spirit level (27).
The reflector makes it possible to keep a con-
stant check on the spirit level during hand-
held use of the camera.
The viewfinder has the same angle of view as
the lens, but it takes in a slightly larger field
because of its location on top of and behind
the lens. The difference is as follows:
Top of the field: 6 in. larger.
Bottom of the field: | Viewfinder and lens
field coincide.
Sides of the field: 3 in. wider on each
side.
This is the case irrespective of the lens-to-sub-
ject distance.