Hasselblad's 500 EL/M Space Edition: A 1982 Icon Revisited
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Nothing to buy, nothing to update. Hasselblad dug the 500 EL/M 'Space Edition' out of the archive and gave it the glossy video treatment. The camera itself is legitimately iconic, a motorised medium format body that went to the moon and then got a commemorative anniversary release in 1982. Worth watching if you have a soft spot for the engineering that defined professional photography before autofocus existed. Skip it if you're looking for anything that affects a current shooting kit.
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