Is that a Hasselblad?

vpwphoto · Feb 1, 2012

I had Gene Cernan say it was nice to see my Hasselblad. I made a group photo of 20 some odd astrounauts (including Armstrong) with my trusty Hasselblad...

.... Colin Powell held my "Blad" because he had not yet seen a digital back on one. This was about 2006, when I got a Leaf Aptus.

Jerry Ross and I talked about photo-training at NASA.. he used a Hasselblad too.

Enough name dropping, I don't want to be "called out". But I figure if you have a name to drop it's ok to do it now and then.

(This was my 700th post..) I'm sick...

RalphLambrecht · Feb 2, 2012

BradS said:
hmmmm, so...its a size thing?

nxt time, you pull down your pants and she says itah?,you are in troubl:confused:e

Helinophoto · Feb 2, 2012

tomalophicon said:
When I was young I was asking my father to take me to the beach. Mum told me not to Hasseldad.

Hahahaha! =D

thegman · Feb 2, 2012

I did not get a ITAH, more TIAH (That Is A Hasselblad), I was taking photos on a beach, and a wedding shoot was going on up the beach, the wedding photographer said "Woah, Hasselblad!". She was shooting a Canikon DSLR, but told me she had 4 Hasselblads herself.

RalphLambrecht · Feb 2, 2012

Dikaiosune01 said:
This has only happened to me once. I had been shooting my shen hao for about 6 months, and I got my first ITAH. I was surprised at the question, so I gave a very candid answer, "I don't speak Chinese. It is a 4x5 camera." She walked away very confused.

After reading the first few pages, i'm getting the idea it happens a lot. I'll think of something more cynical the next time it happens to me.

if i had apenny for every time i get sked this stupid question, i could buy another lens for it too!

E. von Hoegh · Feb 2, 2012

As a parallel, I used to drive a 1954 R-type Bentley which belonged to a friend. I f I had a dollar for every time I was asked if it was a Packard, I'd have been able to put a down payment on the thing. It was RHD, btw.

RalphLambrecht · Feb 3, 2012

David Brown said:
I never had a wedding customer ask about the camera when I was showing them my sample albums. I would tend to agree with you. But then, maybe I was lucky. As I get older, I never cease to be amazed at the stupidity of some humans!

(For the record, it was Mamiya TLR ...)

Former-wedding-photographer David Brown

there is alimit to itelligence, but there is bo limit to stupidity

JohnMeadows · Feb 3, 2012

I guess having someone saying ITAH in that situation is better than someone saying "Is that a Minox?"

RalphLambrecht said:
nxt time, you pull down your pants and she says itah?,you are in troubl:confused:e

MattKing · Feb 3, 2012

For the first time ever I had this happen to me recently.

Except that when the questioner got closer, he said "oh now I see, it is a Mamiya".

It was an RB67, on a monopod.

Sirius Glass · Feb 3, 2012

RalphLambrecht said:
there is alimit to itelligence, but there is bo limit to stupidity

Albert Einstein: "There are only two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. I am not so sure of the former."

FiatluX · Feb 3, 2012

JohnMeadows said:
I guess having someone saying ITAH in that situation is better than someone saying "Is that a Minox?"

Well it´s manual and it works without batteries and everytime!

Sirius Glass · Feb 4, 2012

FiatluX said:
Well it´s manual and it works without batteries and everytime!

Yeah, that is just something many film users must deal with. Imagine a camera that works in cold weather, who woulda thought?

E. von Hoegh · Feb 4, 2012

Sirius Glass said:
Yeah, that is just something many film users must deal with. Imagine a camera that works in cold weather, who woulda thought?

Last winter, I was out in about -5f weather with a Nikkormat. The camera took it in stride, but my cellphone stopped working. So much for enhanced 911

Moopheus · Feb 9, 2012

Oddly, today I was out with my "new" RB67, and someone asked me if it was a Voigtlander. Which I thought was a little odd. How would someone even know the name Voigtlander and think an RB was one?

Though I think the best was one time walking with my Koni-Omega and someone says "That's crazy! What the hell is that!"

ambaker · Feb 12, 2012

No ITAH for me. Did get asked, "What is that noise?", with my Mamiya 645 Super. Have been asked if I still shoot film, as I was inserting a new roll. "Nah, I am just changing the batteries". A Hassy is on my future shopping list. I've never held one, much less shot one. Which is why I want one, even if my images are not one iota better with one.

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Sjixxxy · Feb 12, 2012

I was just out shooting with an 8x10 Deardorff. An older woman started chatting with me. "You must also have a Hassleblad."

She gets a few bonus points.

E. von Hoegh · Feb 14, 2012

Sjixxxy said:
I was just out shooting with an 8x10 Deardorff. An older woman started chatting with me. "You must also have a Hassleblad."

She gets a few bonus points.

Then you can get a T-shirt that reads "My other camera is a Hasselblad".

Sirius Glass · Feb 14, 2012

ambaker said:
No ITAH for me. Did get asked, "What is that noise?", with my Mamiya 645 Super. Have been asked if I still shoot film, as I was inserting a new roll. "Nah, I am just changing the batteries". A Hassy is on my future shopping list. I've never held one, much less shot one. Which is why I want one, even if my images are not one iota better with one.

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When you do hold one for the first time, you will experience the simultaneous rise in the GAS pressure and hear a great wallet suck.

summicron1 · Feb 14, 2012

I'm new so perhaps there is another thread that deals with this ...

I'm new, so perhaps there is another thread that deals with this, but while never asked the Hassy question, I AM asked, pretty much daily, the "can you still get film for that?" question.

Usually while I'm taking pictures.

Temptation is strong to say "No, I just do this to keep in practice," or some such witty reparte...so far, I've been good.

so far.

ajuk · Feb 21, 2012

"Come on darling, let's go out with the Blad in the Jag."

E. von Hoegh · Feb 21, 2012

summicron1 said:
I'm new, so perhaps there is another thread that deals with this, but while never asked the Hassy question, I AM asked, pretty much daily, the "can you still get film for that?" question.

Usually while I'm taking pictures.

Temptation is strong to say "No, I just do this to keep in practice," or some such witty reparte...so far, I've been good.

so far.

Yup, I get the film question, too. I also get "can you still get bullets for that?" when at the range with my older rifles.

Grazian · Feb 21, 2012

sly · May 20, 2012

Here's one that had me yelping with laughter as the perpetrator disappeared in the crowd.

Was at big car show in Vancouver yesterday. As I was sizing up a car through the Yashica LM I got ITAH'd yet again. "No, it's a Yashica, a twin lens reflex."

"Oh yeah. Right..... I've got a bunch of Hasselblad's in the closet at home."

I did have the Hasselblad with me too, used it for some IR shots. It was correctly identified by a number of people, and lots of folks made guesses about the Yashica that were quite reasonable (Rollei, mostly).

I saw one fellow shooting with a box brownie, and 2 with zero image pinholes. Hurrah!

Roger Cole · May 20, 2012

The only time I've ever heard anything like that (I said before I hadn't heard it - this was since then) was from my next door neighbor who saw me with my Mamiya 645 Pro from his yard over to my yard, a distance where it could have been mistaken easily for another medium format SLR, and it turned out my neighbor did used to have Hassleblads and earned his living as a photographer. We had a nice chat - the economy tanking forced him into other work but he still does pro photography, 100% digital, on the side. Has a nice web site too. We'd lived next door to each other for about seven years when we discovered this. Neither of us had any idea the other was interested in photography.

Old-N-Feeble · May 20, 2012

I've never been asked if my camera was a Hasselblad... not even when shooting at least three different medium format cameras. I have been told "that's a nice antique camera" while shooting with a modern 4x5 though.

Is that a Hasselblad?

Ever been asked "Is that a Hasselbad?"

No.

Yes, while shooting 35mm or smaller.

Yes, while shooting Medium Format

Yes, while shooting Large Format

Yes, and it was a Hasselblad!

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Old-N-Feeble

Is that a Hasselblad?

Ever been asked "Is that a Hasselbad?"

No.

Yes, while shooting 35mm or smaller.

Yes, while shooting Medium Format

Yes, while shooting Large Format

Yes, and it was a Hasselblad!

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