I confess, I sold my Hasselblad today...
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I used one professionally. I had it assigned to me complete with two film backs, three lenses and a nice case to house it all. Nice camera, but not the ultimate be-all, do-all. Great glass. But it is slow to use and I though a bit delicate when tough work was required. How many other film cameras do you have?
I used one professionally. I had it assigned to me complete with two film backs, three lenses and a nice case to house it all. Nice camera, but not the ultimate be-all, do-all. Great glass. But it is slow to use and I though a bit delicate when tough work was required. How many other film cameras do you have?
You sold a Hasselblad, not the Hasselblad -- there are more where that one came from, if you ever decide to pick one up again.
It is, in fact, only a camera.
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It's very well built, but still I find it somehow boring. Cameras like Kowa/Six, Kowa Super 66, Mamiya TLRs, Ikoflex + a number of 6X7 beauties; they all feel so much more interesting to handle.
I've sold off a few odd machines, hoping that the total number would stay under 50. All film cameras, of course, the digital ones are easily counted: 1 (one)
It makes you a person seeking to limit the number of tools in your toolkit - that's all. But it's curious that you'd created a discussion topic about it. Would you have bothered if you had sold a Yashica Mat instead?
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It makes you a person seeking to limit the number of tools in your toolkit - that's all. But it's curious that you'd created a discussion topic about it. Would you have bothered if you had sold a Yashica Mat instead?
We could discuss my Yashicaflex S, and why I've painted the "face" green or my Yashica Mat on the topic "How dirty can a camera get".
But money makes bigger headlines
No. I've done worse things to get money.
Never
I will NEVER get rid of my Yashicamat. Not the one that was used by a major international wire service in the 1960s and not the one I got a year ago that has the German lenses. Ditto my Nikon F. The ghosts of Muhammad Ali, Elvis and the Beatles are inside the Nikon F box. I have a dynamite photo of Natalie Wood in a little black dress and John Wayne lecturing Paul Newman about politics that I took with my Nikon F. Just for starters....
I will NEVER get rid of my Yashicamat. Not the one that was used by a major international wire service in the 1960s and not the one I got a year ago that has the German lenses. Ditto my Nikon F. The ghosts of Muhammad Ali, Elvis and the Beatles are inside the Nikon F box. I have a dynamite photo of Natalie Wood in a little black dress and John Wayne lecturing Paul Newman about politics that I took with my Nikon F. Just for starters....
I have so many cameras but I will never sell my 500CM. When I want absolute precision and perfection in performance and results it's what I grab over all others every time.
I cuddle mine and kiss it tonight every evening;still hoping for an affordable digital back to become available.
Thomas, there is no 'just' or 'only' about it.I's a lifestyle and the ultimate of mechanical and optical engineering;indeed, it takes all equipment excuses away;if one can't make a decent photograph woth a Hasselblad, they should give up photography and try carpet weaving.
A Hasselblad is the kind of camera that you'll likely rebuy if you sell it. Happened to me with Hasselblad 500cm, Leica M2/3/4/CL, and Hexar AF.
Just for personal use, I find the bronica S2a to be more fun and funky. (Another camera I've sold and rebought. )
My Rolleiflex E2, I'll never sell.
Just for personal use, I find the bronica S2a to be more fun and funky. (Another camera I've sold and rebought. )
My Rolleiflex E2, I'll never sell.
You'll live. It's just a camera. And there are enough on the market that you can always buy another. If you want to spend the money that you just made.
I'd like to hear about this one. That sounds interesting.
Thomas, there is no 'just' or 'only' about it.I's a lifestyle and the ultimate of mechanical and optical engineering;indeed, it takes all equipment excuses away;if one can't make a decent photograph woth a Hasselblad, they should give up photography and try carpet weaving.
I partially disagree. I am currently printing negatives made using Rolleiflex and Yashica TLRs, and at 16x20" print size, I can't tell any difference between them that renders photographs more or less successful.
If you make the camera a limitation, then the results will suffer. Sure it's better to use a camera we are used to, and one we like to use, but owning a Hasselblad is in no way a must for great results. There are many other less expensive cameras that can yield results that are just as impressive. In my humble opinion, anyway.
So, to me it remains true that it's just a camera. A very fine one, indeed. But not necessary for fine printmaking. Not necessary at all.
I don't think so. To paraphrase a politician, one whose name I can't remember right now....I've known bad people. You're not a bad person.
On the other hand, I guess it depends on what you did w/ the money that you got for it. If you bought a DSLR, then yes, you are a very, very bad person :}
On the other hand, I guess it depends on what you did w/ the money that you got for it. If you bought a DSLR, then yes, you are a very, very bad person :}
Quite right. My Minolta Autocord can produce superb images (APUG members have recently lauded some of my Autocord photos *gratitude*) and there are situations in which I will choose the Autocord over my Hasselblad. The context of their usage suggests which is the better camera to work with. I would also say that I've seen plenty of banal images taken with a Hasselblad, by people who bought the camera with the notion that it would somehow turn mediocrity into magic. I feel sorry for people who think the camera has a way to infuse them with a talent they do not already possess.
Beautiful image Frank.
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Thomas, there is no 'just' or 'only' about it.I's a lifestyle and the ultimate of mechanical and optical engineering;indeed, it takes all equipment excuses away;if one can't make a decent photograph woth a Hasselblad, they should give up photography and try carpet weaving.
I was reading an Andreas Feininger book which predates the Hasselblad where he wrote several requirements for his "ideal" camera.
Victor read that book too, or maybe he got an early manuscript.
Thank you! It was on my first roll of film with that (new to me) lens.
No; nor it is not meet you should. For, though I speak it to you, I think the Hasselblad is but a camera, as my Mamyiya is: the violet appears to its film as it doth to mine: the lens shows the image to it as it doth to mine; all its films have but photochemical conditions: its lenses and backs laid by, in its nakedness it appears but a camera; and though its marketing be higher aimed than others, yet, when it photographs, it photographs with the like ways. Therefore when it sees the image, as our cameras see ours, the photographs be of the same nature as ours are: yet, in reason, no camera should possess a man with any appearance of obsession, lest he, by showing it, should credit or blame film box and not the photographer.
Indeed.
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