I want A Hasselblad. Talk Me Out Of It!

[Pieter12]

Andrew, do you really want to tie your photography to a square format, when a 3 : 2 ratio gives a much more open scope for compositional framing. Does that help.

I like the square format. In fact, I crop most of my shots square, even when shot 2:3 or 3:4. As a matter of fact, a wile back I wrote an essay about it for a book that I was working on. The exception is when I crop 6:17 for panoramas.

 

[Craig]

I've got a 350mm Hasselblad TeleTessar with some fungus on internal lens elements - do you think KEH be able to handle that?

As a general rule, fungus isn't repairable unless the elements are ground and recoated. For all but the most exceptional lenses it isn't financially viable.

 

[BrianShaw]

I like the square format. In fact, I crop most of my shots square, even when shot 2:3 or 3:4. As a matter of fact, a wile back I wrote an essay about it for a book that I was working on. The exception is when I crop 6:17 for panoramas.

Nice! Hasselblad had a booklet extoling the virtues of square format. For me it was interesting reading but I was already sold on the ocncept for some compositions, but especially for freedom to crop.

 

[djdister]

As a general rule, fungus isn't repairable unless the elements are ground and recoated. For all but the most exceptional lenses it isn't financially viable.

thanks for the info.