Originally posted by Wasp .....I also de-acquired a Hasselblad 500C in the late eighties. I have regretted it ever since. I acquired a Hasselblad EL/X last year. One has to make amends....
Long regretting I never had the chance to acquire, and then deacquire much later (at a BIG profit!), a 500ELM that was "in the cupboard" because it had no battery section, that I found when I joined EMI Medical at Hayes (West side of London) in around 1976. Never knew how it got there and it was never ever used for anything, and I probably could have "acquired" it when the place got shut down 3 yrs later and I got redeployed - but didn't