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If one has a darkroom, then great print optically. Many do not have the space for a darkroom or the money for the equipment and therefore digital printing is the only option.

I had recently moved to Rochester New York and I was taken to one of the waterfalls in the area. I could not step across a waterfall flow at the top of a fall with one step so I put one foot into the stream. I did not know that the rock bottom was covered with slimy algae. I was immediately...

Los Angeles City outlawed traffic cameras after a little over a year after they were installed. After the initial impact, people went back to doing things the way they do them, right or wrong.

Just load up some film and start taking photographs. The details of how to take a specific photograph will start to come back to you.

Buy the best equipment that you can afford, [READ: Hasselblad]. That way is something goes wrong you will only have yourself to blame.

I did use the Nikon Fisheye at the base of the Eiffel tower. By the way an Eiffel tower guard was very patient and quite pleasant waiting for me to remove the camera and all the film from my camera bag before the rest of the bag was xrayed. I arrived at 9 AM without reservations, waited about...

That is just slightly over my budget. I will wait for a price drop.

It could be a film back problem, a lens cocking problem or a body cocking problem. Do not force anything and take it or send it to a qualified Hasselblad repair place, such as the one in Burbank California. I suggest that you call Hasselblad and ask it they still repair the 200 series or at...

That is interesting. Welcome to APUG Photrio!!

Recollimation or Collimation requires an optical bench and shining a light through the lens components. Some electro-optical instruments and lenses it is done as each lens is added and adjusted OR for all the lens components at once. It depends of the procedure of each instrument or lens. My...

Holding cameras in ones hands is the best way to find the right camera for oneself. Way back when I sold cameras, I would not put a large camera in a small person's hands nor a small camera in a large person's hands except to make the point that what matters most is how a camera feels for that...

I agree, today's prices make that goal hard to come by prices like that for quality equipment. Which specific processing path, film or digital, can make a great deal of difference.

I would suggest you checkout CLA prices. It is my understanding that my 250mm CF's CLA required all the lens element be removed to get to the shutter to service it and the lens elements required recollimating. In my case KEH covered the CLA including the recollimation and shipping at no cost...

The SL66 was my first choice, but Samys Camera in 2007 advised that I choose the Hasselblad V series and not the SL66, Hasselblad 200 series and Hasselblad 2000 series because of Samys advise that parts and service were, in their opinion beginning to show signs of problems. That changed my...

I had a Certo SuperSport with a very sharp Zeiss lens. It was missing it 645 adapter but that did not matter since the viewing ports did not line up with the 645 numbers on Kodak or Ilford film.

I have the 150mm lens, not the 180mm lens. I too would not say the the 150mm is "meh" but since I do not take portraits the 150mm lens does not get used much. If I were in the position of buying a lens in that focal length I would buy the 180mm lens based on all that I have read.

I took slides for decades and still keep the ones from Europe in the slide trays. Then with the advent of children I started taking color prints, putting them in albums and sending copies to grand parents. After the children were grown I started having large color prints made, joined APUG...

A Rolleiflex does not have interchangealble lenses for it is not in the ball park. I am talking about the Mamiya C family.

Have a repair man do a CLA [Clean, Lubricate & Adjust] to correct the spacing problem and other problems that you do not know about. You will be glad that you did. Welcome to APUG Photrio!!

Folders do not offer interchangeable lenses. SLRs are smaller that TLRs. TLRs do not stop down to see the depth of field.

It is one thing to rewash your old prints. It is quite something else to do that to a print from the 1930's, which are on the order of 90 years old. Take it to a conservator and this is one time one should not stint on the costs.

None of the slrs have or need frame lines. What you see is what you get plus the minimum possible depth of field of the largest aperture. Of course one can stop down and see the real depth of field instead of reading it off a scale and guessing what it means.

The A12V is very rare. I went shopping for one and gave up. It makes more sense to shoot 6x6 and crop if necessary.

The 80mm lens is not the sharpest lens in Hasselblads line up, but it is still much better than many normal lenses available for other cameras.

Enjoy it and shoot more film!

As my girlfriend tells me, "You worked your career earning money to pay for things others needed or thought that they needed. Now is your time in life so if you want something, will use it and enjoy it, then certainly you should buy it." I personally do not hoard; I keep things from hoarders.

But no Tequila, one must drink Crown Royal instead.

I have never experienced that or seen that published anywhere but from you. What do you base that one?

Where?

I have stayed with the most part to local camera stores and KEH. I have not purchased from Japan yet. DHL is a great job of delivering from other countries.