Hasselblad 2000FC/M

Hasselblad · Hasselblad V mount · 56×56mm nominal on 120; 6×4.5 via the A16/A16S magazines, 220 via the A24, 70mm via the Magazine 70; the Magazine 80 for Polaroid film must not be fitted · 1981

Also known as: Hasselblad 2000FC/M · Hasselblad 2000 FC/M · Hasselblad 2000FCM · 2000FC-M · 2000 FCM · ハッセルブラッド 2000FC/M · Hasselblad 2000FC/M Gold · Hasselblad 2000FC/M 100 Years

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
2000FC/M, chrome	Hasselblad V	1981–1984	Two-letter year code + seven digits: RV (1981) … RI (1984); e.g. RI1519324 (Blue Moon Camera), RI1519722 (vhpictures) — no factory block is published	No figure is published in any consulted source; Nordin's compendia are the place to look and were not consulted directly
2000FC/M, black	Hasselblad V	1981–1984	Same two-letter code as chrome; no separate black block is published	No split between finishes is published
2000FC/M Gold — 100 Years in Photography 1885–1985	Hasselblad V	1985–1985	RI152xxxx bodies (1984 code): RI1520722 = no. 153, RI1520792 = no. 96, RI1520794 = no. 152, 1520845 = set no. 604 (Leitz Auction, Henny Hoogeveen, Classic Connection); gold A12s carry RC (1985) codes, e.g. RC3267090, RC3267137; gold Planar 2.8/80 serials 5875393–5878053	Disputed: 700 per Leitz Auction, which calls them the final 700 2000FC/M bodies made; 1,500 per Henny Hoogeveen. No factory figure found

Serial data are individual reported examples (dealers, auction houses, owner blogs), not a factory list.

How to tell them apart (expand)

Model plate reads 2000FC/M; a 2000FC plate with the safeguard lever present has not been reported
Shutter-safeguard lever at the top of the rear opening — the one external part that separates this body from a 2000FC
Cocked body with no magazine: empty rear opening (safeguard on) rather than a visible titanium curtain
Shutter speed ring and battery compartment (6 V PX28) on the body; mirror-program disc 0/1/2 inside the crank; pre-release latch on the body front
Listing trap: the curtains are 0.014mm titanium foil (Photo of the Life) — ask for a photograph of the rear opening with the body fired, since creases and tears are the usual fault and the retraction hides them when the body is cocked

2000FC/M, chrome:

Satin-chrome trim; 2000FC/M on the model plate on the body side
Shutter-safeguard lever at the top edge of the rear opening, beside the upper magazine catches — right = safeguard on, left = body behaves as a 2000FC (instruction manual, Fig. 14)
With the safeguard on and the body cocked, lifting the magazine off leaves the rear opening empty; on a 2000FC the first titanium curtain stays exposed
Shutter speed ring on the body, 1 to 1/2000 plus B and a C lock position; red V at 1/90 between 60 and 125 marks the X-sync limit
Mirror-program disc (0 / 1 / 2) with red detent button nested inside the folding crank

2000FC/M, black:

Black-anodised trim and black crank; magazines sold in matching black
Photo of the Life describes the black paint of the 2000-series as easily chipped and the leatherette as prone to shrinking — worn edges are usual

2000FC/M Gold — 100 Years in Photography 1885–1985:

Gold-plated metal parts on body, Planar 2.8/80 (F, with gold filter bayonet ring) and A12; edition number engraved
Wooden presentation box, papers and maker's box; Hasselblad set code 10258158 on the Classic Connection example
Edition numbers seen: 090 (eBay), 96 and 153 (Leitz), 152 (Hoogeveen), 604 (Classic Connection)

2000FC/M, chrome: The standard camera. No 2000FC/M price list was consulted; the Victor Hasselblad Inc. dealer list effective 1 January 1980 (Pacific Rim Camera reference library 02203) has the chrome 2000FC at $3,570.00 with 80mm Planar F 2.8 and A12 (product 10308) and $2,085.00 as a bare body (10316). The instruction manual consulted carries the print code "10316 E 2.5 … 12 1983" — 10316 being the number that list assigns to the chrome 2000FC body — which is consistent with, but does not prove, the product number carrying over unchanged.
2000FC/M, black: The January 1980 dealer list prices the black 2000FC at $3,600.00 as a kit (10324) and $2,100.00 as a body (10332), $30 and $15 over chrome; whether the FC/M kept those numbers is not documented in any consulted source. Black bodies are the ones most often seen in dealer and auction listings today.
2000FC/M Gold — 100 Years in Photography 1885–1985: A boxed gold set issued in 1985 for "100 Years in Photography 1885–1985". Body serials decode to 1984 and the magazines to 1985 by Hasselblad Historical's VHPICTURES key, so the bodies were built at the end of FC/M production and the sets assembled the following year. Flints Auctions sold one in November 2022 (Digital Camera World). What 1885 marks is given only by the edition's own name: Wikipedia's company history has Arvid Viktor Hasselblad starting the firm's photographic division and dates the Kodak agency to 1888. One dealer's claim that the date is Victor Hasselblad's birth centenary is wrong — he was born in 1906.

Serial-range notes

RV… – RI…: Body and magazine serials begin with a two-letter year code read through VHPICTURES (V=1 H=2 P=3 I=4 C=5 T=6 U=7 R=8 E=9 S=0): RV = 1981, RH = 1982, RP = 1983, RI = 1984. The third-letter F that Hasselblad appended to 2000FC codes applied only in 1977 (Q.G. de Bakker, Hasselblad Historical), so FC/M bodies carry plain two-letter codes. An FC/M with an RV code is reported by Photo of the Life; the gold-edition bodies are RI.

Specifications

Format: 56×56mm nominal on 120; 6×4.5 via the A16/A16S magazines, 220 via the A24, 70mm via the Magazine 70; the Magazine 80 for Polaroid film must not be fitted · 12 on 120 (A12); 16 at 6×4.5 (A16); 24 on 220 (A24) exposures
Finder: waist-level, interchangeable (prism and meter-prism finders available); screens interchangeable by the user
Shutter: Electronically timed focal-plane shutter with titanium-foil curtains; the FC/M adds a switchable safeguard that retracts the first curtain when a magazine is removed from a cocked body. C and CF lenses may instead be used on their own leaf shutter with the body ring locked at C · 1s–1/2000 and B on the body ring, with click stops at intermediate settings; 1s–1/500 and B on the lens leaf shutter · flash sync 1/90 (red V on the body ring) with the focal-plane shutter; all speeds to 1/500 with the lens leaf shutter · no self-timer
Film advance: Folding crank, one full turn advances the film and cocks the shutter; the mirror-program disc inside the crank, held in at the start of the turn, recocks without advancing (intentional double exposure, and resetting a retracted curtain)
Back: Interchangeable magazines — A12, A16, A16S, A24, Magazine 70, Magazine 100 for Polaroid; NOT the Magazine 80, whose projecting glass plate destroys the curtains
Meter: None in body; meter prisms available
Motor drive: Not compatible — No winder coupling — that arrived with the 2000FCW in 1984 (Hasselblad Historical)
Country: Sweden
Accessories: All V-system waist-level, prism and meter-prism finders · A12, A16, A16S, A24 and Magazine 70 film magazines; Magazine 100 for Polaroid (recessed glass) — the Magazine 80 is forbidden · Rear protective cover — the 2000FC manual says to fit one whenever no magazine is on the body · Sports viewfinder, for working with the mirror locked up in program 0 · F lenses: Distagon 50/2.8, Planar 80/2.8, Planar 110/2, Sonnar 150/2.8, Tele-Tessar 250/4 and 350/4, Variogon 140–280/5.6 · 6 V PX28 (4LR44) battery for the shutter electronics

Where sources disagree

First

1982 — Hasselblad Historical's model table; English and German Wikipedia
1981 — camera-wiki.org; the Japanese Wikipedia product list (1981–1983); Emulsive; photoethnography; The Lens DB

Better supported: 1981

Two documents favour late 1981: Pacific Rim Camera's literature catalogue lists a 2000FC/M sales brochure with the print code "1.003 E115 11 81", i.e. November 1981, and Photo of the Life reports an FC/M body coded RV (1981). Hasselblad Historical's 1982 may record the year the camera reached the market in quantity.

Last

1984 — Hasselblad Historical, Wikipedia, Emulsive
1983 — the Japanese Wikipedia product list

Better supported: 1984

The 2000FCW that replaced it is dated 1984 by every consulted source, and the gold-edition FC/M bodies carry 1984 (RI) codes.

Gold edition production

700 — Leitz Auction, describing them as the final 700 2000FC/M bodies produced
1,500 — Henny Hoogeveen (dealer)

Edition numbers seen run from 090 to 604, which neither figure contradicts. 1,500 is also the size of the 1974 500C/M anniversary edition, and may be a confusion with it.

What reviewers say

EM, Emulsive (Ultimate guide to the Hasselblad 2000FCW) (blog) — Written around the FCW but covering the whole line: the 2000FC/M is named as the ideal entry point, the curtain damage the series is known for is put down mostly to curious fingers rather than design, and the verdict is "the best of both leaf and focal plane shutter worlds" after nearly 200 rolls.
Karen Nakamura, photoethnography.com (blog) — Credits the FC/M with solving the thumb-through-the-shutter problem by retracting the curtain when the back comes off, but advises buying a 200-series body instead — the 2000FCW and 2003FCW being the only 2000-series cameras Hasselblad would still repair.
Photo of the Life (HASSELBLAD 2000FC – 1977年発売) (blog) — Owner of a 2000FC and an RV-coded 2000FC/M: praises the speeds and the F lenses, objects to shrinking leatherette and easily chipped black paint, and sold a chrome body after its shutter failed — capable, but not something to depend on. via machine translation — corrections welcome
Hasselblad Moments (vhpictures) (blog) — An RI-coded body: firmer shutter sound than a 500C/M, CF lenses awkward because body speed ring and lens aperture ring sit apart, and the owner sold it after little use because circuit boards and titanium curtains can no longer be replaced.
Shaka1277 (YouTube) (video) — Titled "Best of both worlds" — the 2000FC/M as the body that gives 1/2000 with F lenses and leaf-shutter flash with C lenses. Only the title was verifiable for this draft; the video's argument has not been checked.

History

The M stands for modified, and the modification is a single mechanism. The instruction manual — Hasselblad print code 10316 E 2.5, printed by DR Tryck in December 1983 — puts it in one sentence: the 2000FC/M “differs from the 2000FC by having a built-in safeguard which automatically retracts the exposed shutter curtain from the camera’s focal plane opening”. Hasselblad Historical’s model table says the same in fewer words, “Better shutter protection when the back is off”, and Wikipedia explains why it was needed: the 2000FC’s metal curtains “proved to be quite easily damaged by clumsy fingers”, and every 2000-series body after it retracts them when the magazine is taken off. The curtains are titanium foil that Photo of the Life gives as 0.014mm thick; the 2000FC manual itself describes them as “tough but extremely thin” and tells the owner to fit a protective cover whenever no magazine is on the body.

The manual’s Fig. 14 shows how the safeguard works. A small lever sits at the top edge of the rear opening beside the upper magazine catches. Set to the right, the first curtain of a cocked body is “instantly and automatically retracted” the moment the magazine tips back off the body, so nothing is visible in the opening; set to the left, the safeguard is disconnected and “the camera works as the 2000FC”. Two consequences follow. A flash lead still plugged into a lens PC terminal will fire when the curtain retracts. And a retracted curtain has to be reset before the next frame: with the magazine back on, the red detent in the mirror-program disc is held in while the crank begins its turn, which recocks the body without advancing film — the same motion used for intentional double exposures. If the magazine comes off a body that has already been fired, the curtain stays where it is; to re-arm the safeguard the body is recocked without a magazine, a magazine fitted and removed again. The camera left the factory in the fired state, mirror up in program 1, no battery installed, with a full-page warning to cock it for the first time with a magazine attached.

Everything else is the 2000FC of 1977. The focal-plane shutter is electronically timed from a 6 V PX28 and runs 1s to 1/2000 plus B, with click stops at intermediate speeds; X-sync is 1/90, marked by a red V between 60 and 125 on the body ring, and faster settings block the flash. Three mirror programs are selected with a coin in the disc inside the crank — 2 for instant return, 1 for a mirror that stays up until the film is wound, 0 for locked up — and the pre-release latch cuts reaction time from about 1/15 s to about 1/50 s by the manual’s own table. A C lens is used on its own Synchro-Compur with the body ring locked at C, giving 1s to 1/500 and flash at every speed, at the cost of a finder that stays dark until the next wind. The FC/M manual is also the first to describe the CF lenses of 1982: leaf shutter set to F, the body shutter times the exposure and the mirror returns instantly even in program 2, something a C lens cannot do. Both manuals forbid the Magazine 80 for Polaroid film, whose projecting glass plate “would then impinge upon and destroy the shutter curtains”; the Magazine 100, with a recessed plate, is allowed.

When it appeared is not agreed. Hasselblad Historical and the English and German Wikipedias give 1982–1984; camera-wiki says 1981, the Japanese Wikipedia product list 1981–1983, Emulsive and photoethnography 1981. Two documents favour the earlier date. Pacific Rim Camera’s literature index lists a 2000FC/M sales brochure with the print code “1.003 E115 11 81”, which reads as November 1981, and Photo of the Life reports an FC/M body coded RV — 1981 by the VHPICTURES key. The 1982 date may simply record the first full year of sale. No FC/M price list was found; the Victor Hasselblad Inc. dealer list effective 1 January 1980 has the chrome 2000FC at $3,570.00 with 80mm Planar F 2.8 and A12 (10308) and $2,085.00 as a body (10316), black at $3,600.00 and $2,100.00, and the F lenses at $1,050.00 for the 80, $2,175.00 for the 110/2 and $2,220.00 for the 50/2.8 — the last American prices known before the FC/M. The manual’s code beginning 10316 suggests the chrome body kept its number, but a manual code is not a price list.

The camera closed with a gold set. “100 Years in Photography 1885–1985” is a gold-plated body, Planar 2.8/80 and A12 in a wooden box; Leitz Auction has sold no. 96 (body RI1520792) for €2,280 and offered no. 153 (RI1520722) as “153 of 700 … the final 700 2000FC/M models produced”, while the dealer Henny Hoogeveen puts the edition at 1,500 and Classic Connection lists set no. 604. Body serials decode to 1984 and the gold magazines (RC) to 1985, so the bodies were the last of the run and the sets were assembled the year after. Which figure is right, and what exactly 1885 commemorates, the consulted sources do not settle — Wikipedia names Arvid Viktor Hasselblad as starting the firm’s photographic division and dates its Kodak agency to 1888.

The reputation is the curtains. A Flickr thread from about 2008 records a newly bought FC/M with torn curtains, a British repairer, Dr John Emmett, replacing them with a polymer material of his own for £170, and a later note that his stock was gone; a 2014 forum thread has him out of the trade. Karen Nakamura’s page says Hasselblad would by then repair only the 2000FCW and 2003FCW, and an owner writing at vhpictures sold an RI body after a few rolls because circuit boards and curtains are no longer available. Emulsive’s counter-view is that most of the damage came from curious fingers, and that the FC/M is the sensible entry to the line. The 2000FCW replaced it in 1984 with a winder coupling (Hasselblad Historical).

What remains open: the launch month, which a dated copy of that November 1981 brochure would fix; production totals, which no consulted source gives and which Nordin’s compendia may; the body weight, for which only a second-hand figure of about 730g for the FCW exists; whether the product numbers changed from the 2000FC; and the size of the gold edition.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Photographs

Hasselblad 2000FC/M with the Planar 80mm f/2.8 T* — Lutz Schramm from Potsdam, Germany, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $2,700 across 15 fixed-price listings on 2026-09-08 (middle half $630–$6,500). Tracked since 2026-09-06, 2 days: unchanged from $2,700.

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