Re: Hasselblad 500C/M "LATE"

"Q.G. de Bakker" <qnu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bob Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
>>I have seen several references to a 500C/M "Late" model.  I know that
>> Hasselblad went to a crank winder as standard on later models of the
>> 500C/M.  Is there anything else that distinguishes a given 500C/M as a
>> "Late" model?
>
> The way the trim curves round the camera ready signal window: round on
the 
> old model, more angular on the later model.
> The tripod quick shoe and lower magazine hooks: two quite separate
things 
> on the old model, one metal part, running as a fork from underneath the 
> tripod shoe to the hooks on the late model.
> The molding/surface of the rear baffles: hard to describe though.
>
> Not all changes will have been made at the same time.
> The cable hook hole on the camera's left side, for instance, disappeared

> before other changes were made.

When did the "T" coating get replaced with "T*"? Was that before, during,
or 
after the 500C/M?

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan