Flash for 500C/M?

[curmudgeon]

In past years when visiting our son and his family in Florida I have used my 500C/M for photographing stationary subjects, and my wife's digital point-and-shoot for photographing our grandchildren, who never seem to stay still. The next time we go, I would like to take a flash for the Hasselblad and use it for everything. I see two ways to do this: a non-TTL handle-mount flash like the Mecablitz 45 CL-1, or a Hasselblad flash bracket and a non-TTL shoe mount flash. Any advice would be appreciated, including a recommendation for a shoe-mount flash if I decide to go that way.

Thanks!

 

[Fliger747]

The 500 CM isn't TTL flash capable, directly. I have used flash before with the 500 CM with various brackets. Back then about all flash was manual. Almost any flash could be used in manual mode. Especially if a strong flash was used, bounce would solve many exposure issues once you got zeroed in (have a flash meter?).

I do treasure the old film photos I have of family, something about the look of the camera. The victims seem to fall for it's way of working in a pleasing way.

Good luck! Tom

 

[curmudgeon]

I ended up buying a Hasselblad flash bracket and a Metz Mecablitz 36 C-2 flash. The flash has an automatic mode that, to my surprise, produced better results with bounce flash than with direct flash on a test roll of Tri-X.

I was worried that with the flash tilted up for bounce it would fire right in my eye as I looked down through the WLF. But with the flash head tilted up 60° and extended to match the coverage of a normal lens I had no problems.

--Doug