Hasselblad H1
Hasselblad · Hasselblad H mount · 6×4.5cm on 120 or 220 roll film in the HM 16-32 magazine — 16 frames on 120, 32 on 220 and 8 on a 120 half-roll, per Fujifilm's specification for the identical GX645AF. Instant film via the HMi 100 magazine; digital backs via the H interface. · 2002
Also known as: Hasselblad H1 · Hasselblad H-1 · Hasselblad H1 645 · Hasselblad H1 film · Fuji GX645AF · Fujifilm GX645AF Professional · GX645AF · ハッセルブラッド H1 · フジフイルム GX645AF
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hasselblad H1 | Hasselblad H | 2002–2005 | — | — |
| Fujifilm GX645AF Professional | Hasselblad H | 2003–2010 | — | No figure published by either company |
- Specifications are taken from Fujifilm's published GX645AF Professional sheet, the two cameras being the same product; camera-wiki's H1 page agrees where the two overlap, except on the spot-meter floor noted above.
How to tell them apart
- Rectangular 6×4.5 SLR with a fixed right-hand grip and an LCD on the grip — unlike any V-system body
- HM 16-32 magazine with its own LCD; the lens carries the leaf shutter and there is no shutter-speed dial on the body
- Four-digit-hour shutter range (to 18 hours) on the display is a quick way to tell an H body from any other 645 SLR
- The only visible difference from the H2 is the model name; an H1 upgraded to H2 firmware still says H1 on the outside
Hasselblad H1:
- 'HASSELBLAD' on the prism housing and 'H1' on the body; Hasselblad product code 3013050 for the body (Kamerastore)
- Grey-and-black finish with the removable battery grip on the right, the grip LCD carrying the settings display
- Lenses engraved 'HASSELBLAD HC' with the focal length and aperture (e.g. 'HC 2,8/80')
- Film magazine marked 'HM 16-32' with its own LCD and dark slide
Fujifilm GX645AF Professional:
- 'FUJIFILM' and 'GX645AF Professional' markings in place of the Hasselblad name; camera-wiki notes more black plastic on the exterior
- Lenses engraved 'SUPER-EBC FUJINON GX645AF HC'; Fujifilm calls the mount the 'GX645 dedicated mount' but it is the H bayonet
- Magazine, prism and grip otherwise identical to the H1's
- Hasselblad H1: The camera as sold outside Japan. Per camera-wiki the body came from Hasselblad, the autofocus sensor and focusing screen from Minolta, and the lenses, metering prism and film magazines from Fuji. Hasselblad Historical's one-line summary adds that only a 90° prism finder was available for it. In 2004 the same body was sold with a fixed 22 MP Imacon back as the H1D — a digital camera and outside this catalogue.
- Fujifilm GX645AF Professional: The same camera sold by Fujifilm in Japan, on sale from late January 2003 at a manufacturer's suggested price of ¥359,000 for the body and ¥540,000 for the standard set (Kitamura's 2003 pick-up page; Fujifilm's own product pages give the specification but no price). Kitamura's 2024 ShaSha article says the two differ only in the nameplate. Fujifilm kept the GX645AF in its catalogue until about 2010 — five years after Hasselblad Historical closes the H1 — so late Fuji-badged bodies are the youngest H1s. Whether they carry H2-level firmware is not documented.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×4.5cm on 120 or 220 roll film in the HM 16-32 magazine — 16 frames on 120, 32 on 220 and 8 on a 120 half-roll, per Fujifilm's specification for the identical GX645AF. Instant film via the HMi 100 magazine; digital backs via the H interface.
- Finder
- Interchangeable — HV 90x 90° eye-level AE prism finder with built-in flash at launch; a waist-level HVM finder joined the system later · 2.7× magnification · 97% coverage
- Shutter
- None in the body — exposure by the electronically controlled leaf shutter in each HC lens · 18 hours (64,800 s) to 1/800 s, B and T · flash sync All speeds (leaf shutter); built-in TTL flash, guide number 12; hot shoe · self-timer
- Film advance
- Built-in motor, up to about 2 frames per second; no manual advance
- Back
- Interchangeable magazines — HM 16-32 (16 on 120, 32 on 220, 8 on a 120 half-roll), HMi 100 instant film, and digital backs on the H interface
- Meter
- TTL through the prism finder — spot, centre-weighted and average; spot EV 2–21 and the other two EV 1–21 at ISO 100 per camera-wiki (Fujifilm's sheet gives EV 1–21 for spot and centre-weighted). Autofocus is TTL phase-detection, EV 1–19 at ISO 100, single and continuous.
- Motor drive
- Compatible — Built in — the camera has no manual advance; power from three CR123A lithium cells in the grip, with a rechargeable lithium-ion grip as an option (camera-wiki)
- Weight
- 715 g
- Dimensions
- 145 × 114 × 88 (body, per Fujifilm's GX645AF specification); 145 × 130 × 200 and 1,940 g for the standard set with lens, prism and magazine mm
- Country
- Sweden
- Original price
- ¥359,000 (JPY, 2003) for the Fujifilm GX645AF body and ¥540,000 for the standard set in Japan (Kitamura). No Hasselblad-badged launch price in any currency has been found. (today ¥408,000)
- Accessories
- HV 90x AE prism finder with built-in flash (the only finder at launch); HVM waist-level finder later · HM 16-32 roll-film magazine (120/220); HMi 100 instant-film magazine · Battery grip for three CR123A cells; rechargeable lithium-ion grip (camera-wiki) · Digital backs on the H interface — Imacon Ixpress, Phase One P-series and Leaf backs were used on the H1 (Bill Thoo, 35mmc) · HC lenses 35, 50, 80, 100, 120 macro, 150, 210, 300 and the 50–110 zoom, all made by Fuji
Fujifilm's GX645AF specification gives 97% coverage, 2.7× magnification and −4.0 to +2.5 dioptre adjustment for the AE prism; camera-wiki gives the same dioptre range. The prism carries the TTL meter and a small flash of guide number 12 (camera-wiki). The magnification figure is Fujifilm's and is not stated relative to any lens.
Where sources disagree
- Weight (grams)
- 715 g body — Fujifilm's GX645AF specification
- 820 g — a specification aggregator returned by search, without saying what is included
Better supported: 715 g (Fujifilm)
The 820 g figure may include the grip or batteries; Fujifilm's 1,940 g is for the full standard set
- Meter (spot range)
- Spot EV 2–21, centre-weighted and average EV 1–21 — camera-wiki
- EV 1–21 for spot and centre-weighted — Fujifilm GX645AF specification
A one-stop difference at the floor of the spot range; neither page names its source
- Last
- 2005 for the Hasselblad H1 — Hasselblad Historical's table
- About 2010 for the Fujifilm GX645AF — Fujifilm's continued listing
The two are the same camera under two names; the Fuji-badged run outlasted the Hasselblad one
What reviewers say
- Michael Reichmann (Luminous Landscape), 2002 (blog) — "The ergonomics are first-rate": a finder as bright as a Pentax 645NII's or better, and backs that detect 120 or 220 on their own. No manual wind knob on the backs, so a part-used roll needs the camera to advance, and no 300 or 400 in the launch lens line.
- Stefan Heymann, a week's test against his 501CM (blog) — "The H1 is a really solid, great camera. It is fun to use it": a bright finder with unobtrusive sensors, autofocus that is quick and accurate and yields the moment the ring is turned. No threaded cable-release socket, and the lens release sits under the left thumb.
- Bill Thoo (35mmc), H1 with film and a Phase One back (blog) — Metering accurate and controls intuitive, with "a pleasure in being forced to slow down" — because the autofocus "is slow even in perfect conditions" and hunts in low contrast, and harsh-contrast scenes show colour fringing that post-processing does not tame.
History
The H1 was shown at Photokina in Cologne in September 2002 and released that November (camera-wiki), and it broke with everything Hasselblad had sold since 1948: a rectangular 6×4.5 frame instead of 6×6, autofocus instead of a ground glass and a helicoid, and a new bayonet that took nothing from the V system. It was also, like the XPan of 1998, a joint project with Fujifilm. Camera-wiki’s division of labour has the body from Hasselblad, the autofocus sensor and focusing screen from Minolta, and the lenses, metering prism and film magazines from Fuji; Hasselblad Historical’s table puts it more bluntly, “lenses made by Fuji”, and notes that although the finder was interchangeable only a 90° prism was available. The camera’s own contribution to the company’s history is easy to state: it is the last Hasselblad system designed first as a film camera.
The specification on this page is taken from Fujifilm’s published sheet for the GX645AF Professional, because the two cameras are the same product: 16 frames on 120, 32 on 220 or 8 on a 120 half-roll in the HM 16-32 magazine; an electronically controlled leaf shutter in each lens running from 18 hours to 1/800 s with B and T and flash synchronisation at every speed; TTL phase-detection autofocus from EV 1 to 19 at ISO 100; TTL spot, centre-weighted and average metering; an interchangeable AE prism with 97% coverage, 2.7× magnification and −4 to +2.5 dioptres; a motor at up to 2 frames a second; three CR123A cells; 145 × 114 × 88 mm and 715 g for the body. Camera-wiki adds a built-in flash of guide number 12 in the prism, an optional lithium-ion grip, and a spot range starting at EV 2 rather than Fujifilm’s EV 1 — a one-stop disagreement neither page explains.
Four lenses were available at launch — the HC 35mm f/3.5, 80mm f/2.8, 150mm f/3.2 and the 50–110mm f/3.5–4.5 zoom — and the 50mm, 100mm f/2.2, 120mm macro, 210mm and 300mm followed while the film bodies were current. All carry the leaf shutter, which is why the body has no shutter-speed dial and why flash syncs at 1/800. The HCD 28mm and 35–90mm came later, were designed around the smaller digital sensor, and belong to the H3D era rather than to this camera.
Fujifilm’s version, the GX645AF Professional, went on sale in Japan from late January 2003 at a suggested price of ¥359,000 for the body and ¥540,000 for the standard set (Kitamura’s 2003 pick-up page). Kitamura’s 2024 ShaSha article says the two cameras differ only in the nameplate; camera-wiki adds that the Fuji uses more black plastic outside. Its lenses are engraved Super-EBC Fujinon GX645AF HC and Fujifilm calls the mount the “GX645 dedicated mount”, but it is the H bayonet and everything interchanges. Fujifilm kept the GX645AF listed until about 2010, five years after Hasselblad Historical closes the H1, so the youngest H1 bodies are Fuji-badged. No Hasselblad-badged launch price in any currency has been found, and no production figure is published by either company.
The H1 was built as an open platform: Imacon, Phase One and Leaf backs all mounted on its digital interface, and Bill Thoo’s 35mmc article is a recent account of running Phase One P-series backs on one. In 2004 Hasselblad’s owner Shriro bought Imacon and the H1 was sold with a fixed 22 MP Imacon back as the H1D (Hasselblad Historical) — the first step in a sequence that ends with the H2F as the last H body sold as a film camera. The H2 of 2005 was the same body with new firmware, and H1s could be upgraded to it by service centres, so an H1 engraved H1 may behave as an H2 inside.
What remains open: the Hasselblad launch price; the body weight (715 g per Fujifilm against 820 g from an unattributed aggregator); the serial-number scheme, which no consulted source describes; when the HVM waist-level finder arrived; and whether late GX645AF bodies shipped with H2-level firmware.
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.
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