In 1940 Swedish Air Force officers requested Hasselblad to construct a camera that rivaled the one found in a German reconnaissance aircraft shot down over Sweden.

For example, Hasselblad 2000 was tried a week at Nidingen, the only place in Sweden where the black-legged kittiwake nests.

[1] By 1948, the company introduced the first civilian Hasselblad camera, the 1600F, in New York City.

Over time, Hasselblad has become a standard camera for many professional photographers.

In 1980 Hasselblad was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.