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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Chapters: 500cm, Agfa Clack, Ami 66, ARAX camera, Bronica, Diana camera, Flexaret, Hasselblad, Holga, Lubitel, Mamiyaflex, Mamiya 6, Mamiya 7, Mamiya C, Mamiya C220, Mamiya C330, Mamiya Press, Mamiya RZ67, Mamiya Six, Omega (camera), Pentacon Six, Pentax 645, Pentax 6×7, Plaubel Makina, Rolleicord, Rolleiflex, Voigtländer Brillant. Excerpt: Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company is best known for the medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II. Perhaps the most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo program missions when man first landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras. Hasselblad's traditional V-System cameras remain widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers. One reason is a reputation for long service life and quality of available lenses. Their newer H-System cameras are market leaders, competing with Sinar, Mamiya and others in the medium format digital camera market. The company was established in 1841 in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a trading company, F. W. Hasselblad and Co. The founder's son, Arvid Viktor Hasselblad, was interested in photography and started the photographic division of the company. Hasselblad's corporate website quotes him as saying I certainly don¿t think that we will earn much money on this, but at least it will allow us to take pictures for free. In 1877, Arvid Hasselblad commissioned the construction of Hasselblad's long-time headquarters building, in use until 2002. While on honeymoon, Arvid Hasselblad met George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak. In 1888, Hasselblad became the sole Swedish distributor of Eastman's products. The business was so successful that in 1908, the photographic operations were spun off into their own corporation, Fotografiska AB. Operations included a nationwide network of shops and photo labs. Management of the company eventually passed to Karl Erik Hasselblad, Arvid's son (grandson of founder F. W.). Karl Erik wanted his son, Victor Hasselblad, to have a wide understanding of the camera business, and sent him to Dresden, Germany, then the world center of the optics industry, at age 18 (circa 1924). Victor spent the next sever