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Unjamming a Hasselblad

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MartinC

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Hoping there may be a Hasselblad expert out there!

Went taking shots today and experienced a jam on my 500cm, the lens started to come off rotated about 5mm then stopped and would neither come off or rotate all the way back on.

Got home and looked closer. The lens is unlocked and the camera is cocked, so I thought easy fix, open the rear secondary blinds and turn the small screw inside the body clockwise to recock the lens... no dice the screw only moved a small amount then stops. The lens rotates back and forth a small amount but that's it.

Also the mirror is in the down position.

Any ideas? I don't want to force anything obviously, but am loathed to have to send it off to get fixed as mechanical Hasselblad technicians are few and far between.
 
Many thanks, it looks like the ANNIE78 video may well be the answer, I will see if the local repair shop can do it and at what cost and then perhaps try myself. I am actually in the US so I may have to look around perhaps on the LA area for a Hassy specialist if the other options don't pan out.
 
That link worked for unjamming the lens. Problem is that after reinstalling the lens and trying to remove the jam happened again requiring me to do the fix again. It only happens with this one lens, it seems like the release pin is just too sensitive and the act of removing the lens is sufficient to trip it. I will be not mounting the lens again until it's been to a repair shop for adjustment as unjamming is quite a pain and not possible to do in the field.
 
As a follow up, cleaned the mounting area of the lens and the visible cocking mechanism of the lens and strangely the 150 now mounts and dismounts properly. I am still nervous about the lock up occurring again so will be taking the Mamiyaflex as a back up just in case when I go out again.
 
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