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Is that a Hasselblad?

Ever been asked "Is that a Hasselbad?"

  • No.

    Votes: 294 37.0%

  • Yes, while shooting 35mm or smaller.

    Votes: 25 3.1%

  • Yes, while shooting Medium Format

    Votes: 219 27.5%

  • Yes, while shooting Large Format

    Votes: 97 12.2%

  • Yes, and it was a Hasselblad!

    Votes: 228 28.7%
  • Total voters
    795
On a hike recently I had a hiker tell his partner my Rolleiflex was an "old Kodak Brownie." Gads.
 
Gads indeed, not to mention zooks..
 
I had a winner once at the airport when the TSA agent asked me to let him inspect the "scuba diving flashlight" in my bag. I never scuba dive so I was very perplexed. Opening my bag he pointed to my Hasselblad 503cxi... I told him it was a Hasselblad and was waiting for the ITAH quetion... he just told me I could proceed with a pat down... great!
 
Soooo close...I was out yesterday with a Koni Omega Rapid M and I got a "Is that a Horseman?" I can see the resemblance so obviously, the guy knew something about film cameras.
 
I didn't belive that it will happen but today I was with a Graflex Speed Graphic + Kodak Aero Ektar, and it happened. But he know something too, he said he knows that it looks like a 3D and "is it true that it costs 1 euro per sheet?" and finally asked me if he can take a look at the GG.
 
And there's the variant, I know it's a Hasselblad! Shooting last weekend and one guy approached me asking what kind of film I was using. He was a lab technician in one of the few remaining film development labs in Sydney. About 10 mins later, from about 20 meters away, a woman I would guess in her mid-thirties called out, hey, it's great to see someone still shooting 6x6 film! I do too! Smiles exchanged.
 
I never had been asked "is that a Hasselblad, but I mostly shoot with a Canon SLR.

However, I have been asked many many times if I am with the local paper.

Actually the most flattering thing is that I was at a overlook with my camera, and a young nice couple asked me to take a photo with their film SLR since "I knew what I was doing." I also gave them my work card. Got a email 2 weeks later saying that the photo i took is framed in their house. That was one of the nicer things.
 
I was recently asked "What Leica is that?" buy one of our local self-styled experts-on-everything. I was carrying a Kiev 4a.
 
Zedwardson said:
a young nice couple asked me to take a photo with their film SLR since "I knew what I was doing."
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I've had people ask me that, when I was carrying anything from my EOS 3, m645af, Hasselbladski, and Toyo G.
Too bad that every time they then asked me to take a photo of them using their phone, an area in which I specifically do not[/url] know what I'm doing
 
I have been asked if I was using a Hasselblad on several occasions, mostly when I was actually using my 2000 FC/M. There have been times where I was asked that when I was using my Mamiya C330, go figure. Most of the times when I am shooting the Hassie, it's "Nice camera!". I do often get asked what kind of camera I'm using when I'm shooting with my Canham 4x5, one guy just said "what's that?", and when I told him it was a camera, he looked puzzled and said "really?".
 
No, its not a Hasselblad!

Not the same question, but analogous. I was sitting on the ground in my front yard, taking a close-up of a dog tooth violet with my Pentax 645n. My 120 macro was mounted, of course, as was the right angle finder and a cable release. The camera was on a focus rail and supported by a Manfrotto tripod. My next door neighbor Sylvia, who is a nosy busybody, hollered "Mighty fancy camera, George. Is that a Nikon?"

Naturally I couldn't let that go unchallenged, so I told her no, it was a Pentax medium format film camera, the likes of which Nikon had never made. I don't think she had any idea what I was talking about....
 
Never had the ITAH, but I've been asked several times if my RB67 was a movie camera. Once I had my RB on a tripod taking a shot of the foot bridge at a local park when an elderly gentleman and what I imagine was his grandson stopped about 30 feet away, and the fellow said "see that camera boy? That mans a professional, if only he knew how wrong he was. The best one happened while I was walking down the main street of a nearby town, a woman who was probably in her mid 50's stopped and asked me what kind of camera I was using. I told her it was Mamiya RB67 and it was a medium format film camera. She looked at me like I must be on drugs and said "film, film they stopped making that 20 years ago". When I assured her that film was still available she said "well where on earth do you get it developed". "I do it myself" I said, she immediately gasped and replied "surely thats illegal". I just kind of sighed and she wondered off.
 

Oh yeaaaah! I jus' lov' sniffin' that there fixer, don' you?? Thems illeagle thangs is the very best.
 

Good grief. Some people are alive only because stupidity is not fatal.
 
Sadly, she's probably already reproduced - thus passing along both the genetic and attitudinal imbecility she manifests.
 
Yesterday at the Rocky Mountain Balloon festival in Colorado Springs, it happened FOR A SECOND TIME with my Mamiya C33. I told him it was a Mamiya. He wondered what year and I told him 1964, and we were immediately separated by 2 guys dragging a rope to stretch out a 2nd wave balloon. It came between us and I never saw him again.

A little later, a woman came by. Judging by her equipment she seemed to really have her digital act together, and she said, "Now there's challenge!" I gave her a big smile and nod and thought, "That's somebody who GETS it".
 
Yes, I was using my RB67 yesterday in the park and a big guy with a digital camera asked me the dreaded question.
 
I've recieved that too. Twice, in fact. That was when I was using my Yashica TLR. It's also been called a brownie, box camera, 3D camera, and a couple people have mistaken it as a Rolleiflex.
 
Someone once asked if my Pentax 645N was a Bronica or Mamiya.
That's as high up the food chain as I have ever gotten.
 
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