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The Hartblei Hcam B1

Marry Phase One digital backs with top quality 35mm Canon optics.

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The Hartblei Hcam B1

List Price £5995.00

DDI Price with Phase One back order

£5250.00 plus vat & shipping (not inc Lens)

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See test with IQ 180

So you have Canon kit and some top end lenses like the 17mm & 24 T/S lens but need more resolution and have been thinking on getting a Phase One digital back then this is the camera for you!The Hartbleii Hcam B1 takes Canon lenses on the front of the B1 camera and Phase One digital backs on the back of the Hcam B1.

All Phase One Backs, Canon & Carl Zeiss Lenses, Shift- and Tilt, and Full Control!

PhaseOne, and it open platform who are open to all solutions and camera systems work amasingley well with the Hartblei Hcam B 1 alowing the use of 17mm and 24mm T/S lenses & Carl Zeiss lenses.

HCam-B1 with Canon 17mm TS - Worldrecord 125 degrees image angle !

If a MF photographer wants to use larger image angles, there are no choices besides 35mm DSLRs. But this comes with limitations in resolution, in handling (shift, swing and tilt) and in price, because all the items of his already existing equipment will not fit to the 35 mm body and need to be purchased again.

On the other hand is an upgrade to MF from 35 mm today a cost and time consuming task. You can spend easily five figures amounts to get up and running, and it also will take considerable time.

Because of this Hartblei was intrigued by the thought to connect the worlds of 35 mm and MF.

Our Superrotators are originally MF lenses of the Hasselblad V System and offer image circles way bigger than 80 mm and up, delivering enough resources to even use shift and tilt movements on most smaller backs. So we decided to build a camera by ourselves. The camera should be completely open for all MF backs on the market and should use a 35mm lens mount as an interface to support all lenses, no matter whether 35 mm or MF. The plan was to give access to extreme wideangles down to fisheyes or superteles and while maintaining a reasonable price offerin.

In short: as there was none on the world market, the camera needed to be built from scratch.

Our camera has a built in electronic blade shutter (B,30sec-1/4000sec) which we get from our partner Mamiya/PhaseOne. If needed the camera can be used with full remote control through your PC/Mac, and it uses a motorized sliding back for highest precision and prevention of unwanted camera movements/vibrations.

We use high precision parts from industrial machine tool management electronics, e.g. foil keyboards, motors of the sliding back, central electronics and display. These parts are industrially normed, highly reliable and nonetheless very price efficent.

Canon EF Aperturecontrol ontop of the HCam-B1 !

Our camera body is made of massive alumium boards, assembled with solid screws, thightly sealed and very service friendly. In addition, it is absolutely easy and clear in operation.

Our camera mount is made by Novoflex with highest precision. Whoever uses this for the first time and mounts a lens into it will be positively pleased and recognize that even today legendary precision mechanics can be built cost efficiently in Germany and the EU.

So the user of HCam-B1 achieves wideangles down to 14mm! This equals about 135 degrees of image angle (without fisheye!). And with the new Canon 8-15mm Fisheye Zoom we get tacksharp 180 Degrees shots up to 80 Mpix backs! On the long side of focal range even superteles become available. And with our Hartblei lenses with tripod collar you even get portrait and landscape switch, as well as shift and tilt for all backs - parallaxfree!

Sefan Steib, Hartblei

Product Description

• Unique and solid professional camera with built in electronic blade-shutter for all digital or analogue formats up to 4,5 x 6 cm.
• Evolved by a several year development cycle, for toughest production condition.
• Shutter speeds from B and 30 sec. down to 1/4000 sec. all usable untethered!
• 1/125 sec flash sync, first or second shutter blade sync-cable
• Shutter built for high number of care free exposures, standard part - service friendly because of simple structure.
• Built from 5 mm Aluminium boards plus other materials used by industrial control enineering, for highest robustness.
• No vibrations - perfect for multi-shot and long exposures.
• Attractive price, made possible by usage of standardized parts plus straight and simple construction.
• Operation of camera by built in foil keyboard or remotely from your computer, using your back's dedicated software.

Connectors

• For all digital or analogue backs. Adaptions for PhaseOne/Mamiya 645-AFD, Hasselblad V and Hasselblad H.
• Other adaptions, e.g. Contax 645 and others are available.
• Four connectors universal plug; trigger for shutter with every adaptation (upon ordering, please specify your system!)
• Cable release 1m included (longer cable on request as an extra).
• Motorised sliding back with sensor precision positioning.

Focusing Screen

• Bright focusing screen with interchangeable finders (all Hasselblad V System finders and screens usable).
• Included in the system is a Hartblei TTL Spot Prism-finder
• Power supply

Power supply

• Mains power supply or high performance rechargeable Li+-batteries 7,2 V, 1500 mAh to 7200mAh (Accessories) 
• original professional video (Sony) and Phase One digital back batteries.

Dimensions and weight

• 233 mm x 129 mm x 34 mm (WxHxD) 
• weight depending on customization and battery, approximately 2.3kg (5lb)

2 Year warranty

• Our proven technology and modular design allow us to offer a 2 Year limited warranty for parts and construction.

This is Position 1 of the IQ180/HCam-B1 test with Canon TS24mm about 10mm shift upwards. f11,5 , 35 ASA

The 24mm is amazing,it´s shifted 10mm on the IQ180 and this beats any other lens in that focal range, with no color cast, no chromas and nearly no light falloff.

Sefan Steib, Hartblei