Hipsters and hasselblads

[Pieter12]

Except when the camera store is out of my favorite...

 

[Minolta93]

I wouldn't consider myself a hipster. More likely an old man in a younger body.

 

[serouscam]

Without the digital revolution I would not have been able to have a 4"x5" Pacemaker Speed Graphic, 4"x5" Graflex Model D, a Jobo processor, full color and black & white darkroom, Hasselblad 903 SWC, Hasselblad Fisheye lens, and many formally expensive lenses.

There is no Model D, it is called Series D

 

[takilmaboxer]

Well, since the thread has drifted a bit, I can tell a funny story.
I have a neighbor who looks like a hipster but is actually a white supremacist. He had a sign right on the roadway advertising his preference for his presidential candidate back in 2016 (guess who). I was standing there with my phone taking pictures of his sign and chimping each shot when he came running out yelling at me to leave his sign alone. Next day I walked by and he had moved the sign inside a cholla bush, surrounded it with barbed wire, placed a strong light on it, and installed a video camera to keep watch on it (yes this actually happened). So I went home, grabbed my tripod and 4X5 and dark cloth, and set it up to take a real photograph for posterity. He never came outside! But several neighbors walking their dogs commented on my rig. Alas, I forgot to pull the slide...
"A blank he lived and a blank he died,
He never remembered to pull the slide".

 

[Arthurwg]

On recent travels I encountered. an attractive young woman toting a Hasselblad over her left shoulder. I think she was too young to be a hipster. Maybe she was just a serious photographer.

 

[Sirius Glass]

On recent travels I encountered. an attractive young woman toting a Hasselblad over her left shoulder. I think she was too young to be a hipster. Maybe she was just a serious photographer.

That happens more often than you may think.

 

[polka]

Yes, It used to be that we occasionally used shot as a metaphor for photograph but we had many other words as well, expose, use, photograph, make pictures, take pictures, etc...now it seems all these words and phrases have been replaced by "shot'. There is no other word anymore and to make matters even more nauseatingly insipid, we also hear/read such nonsense as "shot film" meaning exposed film - brain dead. The vocabulary of digital imaging has inundated and often displaced wholesale the vocabulary of photography and the result is that the vocabulary of photography has contracted and morphed.

instead, say "waste" film.

POLKa

 

[Duceman]

A young 25ish hipster, just a few moments ago in front of a Tattoo shop, to me:

-Is this a hasselblad
-No, it’s a Rolleiflex. You see, it has 2 lenses. A hasselblad has only one.
-Oh. Is it Old school? (With a now worried look on his face)
-Of course it is!
-(this brought a smile to his face, the worries disappeared instantly). Nod of approval.
—-

So there it is.

Similar thing happened to me not that long ago. Except I was carrying a Minolta Autocord. And the guy asking me if it was a "Hasselblad" was a Boomer.

 

[polka]

Anal-hog.

anal-hog Like-ass ? most reputed !

POLKa

 

[Rayt]

Not necessarily hipsters (and what is a hipster?), but I have travelled much of the world with my Rolleiflex and always had strangers asking me about it. Yes much along the lines is it a Hasselblad and can you still buy film? Setting up my 4x5 in Venice attracted a small crowd of natives.

 

[markjwyatt]

Not necessarily hipsters (and what is a hipster?), but I have travelled much of the world with my Rolleiflex and always had strangers asking me about it. Yes much along the lines is it a Hasselblad and can you still buy film? Setting up my 4x5 in Venice attracted a small crowd of natives.

I have had more than one person ask me if my Mamiya TLR was a Hasselblad. I think in many people's mind 'professional Medium Format Cameras' = Hasselbald. I think in the general public who remember film cameras there are maybe four types:

35mm (the ones everybody had)
professional Medium Format Cameras (the ones you saw in studios, weddings, etc.)
View Cameras (you know, the one Ansel Adams used)
Movie cameras

 

[Sirius Glass]

While my weight is more than I would like, I cannot be called a hipster.

 

[grain elevator]

Similar thing happened to me not that long ago. Except I was carrying a Minolta Autocord. And the guy asking me if it was a "Hasselblad" was a Boomer.

Exactly same scenario here. Btw, what's the deal with the word "duce" in your username?

 

[Duceman]

Exactly same scenario here. Btw, what's the deal with the word "duce" in your username?

Nickname since I was quite young and is a misspelling of the French name for this:

No.... has nothing at all to do with Mussolini.

 

[jtk]

Similar thing happened to me not that long ago. Except I was carrying a Minolta Autocord. And the guy asking me if it was a "Hasselblad" was a Boomer.

This is 2020. A "boomer" might be 70yrs old now.

 

[Duceman]

This is 2020. A "boomer" might be 70yrs old now.

Actually, it is 2022, and yes, a Boomer can be anywhere from 58 to 76.

 

[mshchem]

Well, since the thread has drifted a bit, I can tell a funny story.
I have a neighbor who looks like a hipster but is actually a white supremacist. He had a sign right on the roadway advertising his preference for his presidential candidate back in 2016 (guess who). I was standing there with my phone taking pictures of his sign and chimping each shot when he came running out yelling at me to leave his sign alone. Next day I walked by and he had moved the sign inside a cholla bush, surrounded it with barbed wire, placed a strong light on it, and installed a video camera to keep watch on it (yes this actually happened). So I went home, grabbed my tripod and 4X5 and dark cloth, and set it up to take a real photograph for posterity. He never came outside! But several neighbors walking their dogs commented on my rig. Alas, I forgot to pull the slide...
"A blank he lived and a blank he died,
He never remembered to pull the slide".

That's a great story! Ah the ones that got away.

 

[qqphot]

Last weekend someone asked me if my Leica M3 was an "Ektachrome." His friend replied "bro. bro, ektachrome is film. that's a Leica."

 

[bernard_L]

From experience with my C220, I can confirm that TLR, for whatever reason, are great conversation starters. More than 35mm SLRs that are not so different from DSLRs, but also more than folders.

Some years back, C220 on tripod, checking on the ground glass for framing.
- Is that a camera?
- Yes, please have a look if you wish...
- Ooooh! it's in color!

 

[Kodachromeguy]

In late 2021, a friend and I asked some railroad workers if we could take some pictures down the axis of the railroad bridge that crossed the river at Monroe, Louisiana. Afterwards, they were fascinated to look into the finder of my Hasselblad and try to figure out the left to right view. It was an ice breaker. "Is this really from the 1980s?" My friend had his RB67. That was even more interesting.

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[Sirius Glass]

Well, since the thread has drifted a bit, I can tell a funny story.
I have a neighbor who looks like a hipster but is actually a white supremacist. He had a sign right on the roadway advertising his preference for his presidential candidate back in 2016 (guess who). I was standing there with my phone taking pictures of his sign and chimping each shot when he came running out yelling at me to leave his sign alone. Next day I walked by and he had moved the sign inside a cholla bush, surrounded it with barbed wire, placed a strong light on it, and installed a video camera to keep watch on it (yes this actually happened). So I went home, grabbed my tripod and 4X5 and dark cloth, and set it up to take a real photograph for posterity. He never came outside! But several neighbors walking their dogs commented on my rig. Alas, I forgot to pull the slide...
"A blank he lived and a blank he died,
He never remembered to pull the slide".

I have taken some truly great photographs with the lens cap on. One of the reasons I now use SLRs.

 

[calico]

Well, since the thread has drifted a bit, I can tell a funny story.
I have a neighbor who looks like a hipster but is actually a white supremacist. He had a sign right on the roadway advertising his preference for his presidential candidate back in 2016 (guess who). I was standing there with my phone taking pictures of his sign and chimping each shot when he came running out yelling at me to leave his sign alone. Next day I walked by and he had moved the sign inside a cholla bush, surrounded it with barbed wire, placed a strong light on it, and installed a video camera to keep watch on it (yes this actually happened). So I went home, grabbed my tripod and 4X5 and dark cloth, and set it up to take a real photograph for posterity. He never came outside! But several neighbors walking their dogs commented on my rig. Alas, I forgot to pull the slide...
"A blank he lived and a blank he died,
He never remembered to pull the slide".

Great story! Too bad you didn't get the photo. The sign inside the barbed wire with the spotlight must've been quite a sight.

On the other hand, sometimes what we imagine can be better than a photo. You've told the story......now we can imagine.....

 

[cptrios]

Similar thing happened to me not that long ago. Except I was carrying a Minolta Autocord. And the guy asking me if it was a "Hasselblad" was a Boomer.

On no fewer than 3 occasions, I've had people ask me if my Autocord is a camera. I'm surprised to hear that so many people even know what a Hasselblad is!

 

[qqphot]

TLRs do strangely seem to attract the most attention. Most SLRs are invisible. Leicas are only noticeable to people who are also carrying leicas. The only thing I've found that causes more bafflement or interest is a 4x5 Graflex (the box kind, not the Graphic series.) But with them it's more "What in god's name is that thing and is it dangerous?"

 

[bluechromis]

This term hipster is tossed about but I don't really know what it means. At first I thought it was something about hippies, but it wasn't. When I read descriptions of hipster virtually every quality attributed to them overlapped to a large degree with members of other groups. I thought it must be an urban, yuppie thing. But then I read there are rural hipsters. Then I thought it must be a left-leaning thing. But then I read there is subset of Nazi hipsters called Nipsters. It said that hipsters like to wear tight fitting jeans. But don't a lot of people, especially women, pay top dollar to get tight fitting designer jeans? Does hipster really mean anything other than a general pejorative to effect that, "I think this person(s) is pretentious and has bad taste"? If that is all it means why don't we just say that?