Is that a Hasselblad?

[Q.G.]

So is a Nikon F. I get comments about that...

You do set those right, don't you?

 

[k_jupiter]

I can't stand 6x6cm... Square is such an annoying aspect ratio...

From someone who obviously doesn't understand square.

tim (ex-MD) now in san jose

 

[kavandje]

I can't stand 6x6cm... Square is such an annoying aspect ratio...

Oooh... them's fightin' words, them is...



At any rate, last time I checked (15 seconds ago to make sure), the Hassy's negs are 55mm x 55mm, and you have those cute little triangle things on the side, so they aren't really square anyway.

 

[pgomena]

The nice thing about those other aspect ratios is that they all can be cropped to a square. The nice thing about the square is that it can be cropped to all those other pesky aspect ratios. Who cares, really?

Peter Gomena

 

[blankk]

I went walking around La Jolla (San Diego) this evening with the 500C/M and immediately after I got out of my car a woman on the sidewalk asked if it was a Rolleiflex. I told her it was actually a Hasselblad, and she seemed much less interested but said "oh, nice camera."

 

[thisismyname09]

I showed my dad my rb67 the other day and the first thing he asked was something along the lines of, "you didn't get a hasselblad?"

 

[benjiboy]

I say "no it isn't, it's a Mamiya, a poor mans Hasselblad".

 

[André E.C.]

Funny, I can't stand 35mm anymore also, it's so depressingly small!


Cheers



André

 

[jasonhall]

Funny, I can't stand 35mm anymore also, it's so depressingly small!

I am coming to the same conclusion.

Jason

 

[kompressor]

Here i realy used a Hasselblad

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/sport/spill/verdi/98452

 

[Q.G.]

NRK har kun rettigheter til á vise dette innholdet i Norge.

 

[nicefor88]

Didn't realize the swedish box was famous that way...

 

[Poohblah]

had a close call the other day... I was asked if my medium format folder was a Leica. rangefinder, yes, but Leica, no...

 

[sly]

Went to a Mother's day concert featuring medieval choral music and period instruments. At least 6 people admired my beat-up hassy. One asked if it was large format, and 2 asked if it was a Hasselblad. No one asked why I was shooting film. All comments were impressed/respectful. Just shows you how superior the ancient music crowd is, I guess. Very different from taking a film camera to.... oh.... a parade.

 

[paul_c5x4]

First outing with my 5x4, got asked "Oh, is that an MPP".

Correctly identified.

 

[Darkroom317]

I finally got asked this question when I walked into an art gallery with my Rolleicord in downtown Rogers. I would have thought
someone would have asked that about my RB67 more so than my Rollei.

 

[pgomena]

I have been waiting for this to happen for months now. Surprise! I have been asked twice within the past three weeks if "that is a Hasselblad?" The first time it was a folding wooden field camera on my tripod, the second time it was my Hasselblad. I'm batting .500 so far. This is a fascinating phenomenon.

Peter Gomena

 

[Bosaiya]

Got it again while riding around with a Crown Graphic and a pimped-out RB67. They were referring to the Graphic. The "boxy one." "Oh this, (holding up the RB), yeah it's pretty similar, they're both-" "No, the other one that opens up." Hmm.

 

[fiducio]

So far, only one person has ever identified it as something remarkably close. "Oh, is that a hasselhoff?"

I took it to a party, like a kind of crazy costume party. Everyone there asked me of it does video, and one girl even grabbed it right out my hands turned it around and frantically tried to find the 'delete' button... No one had a clue.

And as for the very old thing... I always am asked that question. I've got a 503CW, manufactured 2006, apparently it's newer than most people's 'pro digital' equipment that looks like it's held together by duct tape. :]

Even better when a lady walking around the same time shooting a 5D with a couple, she stopped me and asked what I was shooting, I told her, and she asked if she could look at it because she's never seen one. She spent about five minutes holding the shutter halfway down, trying to auto-focus. Then got even more upset when she couldn't figure out why it wasn't metering with the waist level finder. It was quite humorous. Spent 30 minutes explaining to her all about it while the poor couple had to wait.

 

[Tony Egan]

While walking to the PMA Imaging Technology convention last Sunday I befriended a man and his young daughter who were a bit lost and looking for directions. I suggested we walk together and we got talking about photography. His wife was a wedding and portrait photographer who was promoting Asuka Books at the show and he admitted to knowing very little about photography himself. When he asked what I did I started to explain my continued love of film and larger format cameras etc.
Oh, you mean with a Hasselblad then he said.
See, you don't even need to have a camera with you to be shooting with a Hasselblad!

 

[Paul Sorensen]

Closest I ever got was someone asking if my Mamiya 645 was a movie camera. Maybe I need to get out more...

 

[AlexG]

Closest I ever got was someone asking if my Mamiya 645 was a movie camera. Maybe I need to get out more...

Hahaha...I had the same kind of thing happen to me while I was shooting my Bronica last month.

Guy: "Hey, are you with Channel 13 news?"

Me: "Not to my knowledge...Why do you ask?"

Guy: "Whats up with your big ass TV camera?"

Me: "Oh, it's just a hobby "

 

[Sirius Glass]

Tony, does that mean that you have upgraded from Rollei? :confused:

Steve

 

[nocrop]

ITAH?

Who doesn't like to say "Hasselblad"? Now, is it hossel-blahd or hassle-blad (rhyming with "bad), or a combination, or mix-match of the two?

 

[Tony Egan]

Tony, does that mean that you have upgraded from Rollei? :confused:

Steve

Steve - if you are referring to my avatar I must sheepishly admit it is was a Yashica D TLR which I sold at a camera market a few years ago to help fund a Mamiya 7. I do have a Hasselblad (XPan) but when people see that they usually say is that a Hasselblad in that hesitant and sceptical manner which translates to, well, it doesn't look like a Hasselblad!
You just can't win at this game!