I spent several decades shooting slides and if I had to I would remount a slide to do some cropping. I learned that it is much better to get the composition correct before taking the photograph and then not have to crop later.
The field of view is so wide that it is no hardship to frame a little loose and crop when you print. The lens is sharp enough that a bit of cropping doesn't really affect the final print quality.
The SWC is rectilinear and that is very different than the run of the mill shorter than 20mm lenses [for 35mm cameras] of which most valuable feature is to distort everything for the Holy Grail of distortion. The SWC is a real camera, not a Lens Baby. If you want a real camera buy and use the SWC, otherwise save your money and buy a Lens Baby.
I will agree to that and is why I don't really buy anything wider than 28mm in 135. However the one exception so far has been the Zeiss 21/4.5 ZM which I think is related to the Biogon in the SWC. It is amazingly well corrected, zero distortion and you really don't feel like you are shooting such a wide lens.
Best MF camera I’ve ever owned. Made more money with it than any of my other’Blads!!
Best MF camera I’ve ever owned. Made more money with it than any of my other’Blads!!
I have more fun with the SWC than any other camera.
Fedex ground is terrible, that won’t even try at my house sometimes and say no one was home, when we were home all day.Guys stop! it was supposed to be delivered today. I saw a FedEx truck from my window and went down to sign for the package but the driver never came to my house. No note on my door. A few minutes later the tracking showed "Delivery attempted, signature required" I guess we will see if FedEx wants to come out of their truck tomorrow...
Best MF camera I’ve ever owned. Made more money with it than any of my other’Blads!!
There is a serious design flaw with the Hasselblad SWC. You can focus but you cannot compose a picture accurately. Why?
Because the lens cuts off the view of the foreground as seen through the viewfinder. And because the lens is so wide there is a lot of foreground and because the lens is so sharp there is a lot of detail in that foreground. When I used a SWC for deep-focus front to back landscape pictures I used it upside down. The un-see-able part of the view is then up in the sky where there is less chance of a critical framing error.
Yes, there is a ground-glass back for the SWC that solves any focussing, framing, and composition errors but it is a cumbersome answer to a problem a SLR doesn't have.
SWC? Meh.
Get a Brooks Plaubel Veriwide 100.
Sirius, your blinkers are showing.That does not compare at all, but then you would know that if you have been reading the posts on this and other threads. Of course that has never slowed you down for post what you do not know on threads.
SWC? Meh.
Get a Brooks Plaubel Veriwide 100.
That does not compare at all, but then you would know that if you have been reading the posts on this and other threads. Of course that has never slowed you down for post what you do not know on threads.
Sirius, your blinkers are showing.
Huss prefers the differences that the Veriwide 100 provide.
You prefer the differences that the SWC provides.
Your preferences are fine, just not more important than Huss'.
I think Huss' point (which everyone can see is tongue-in-cheek) is just as valid as your various interjections of "buy a Hasselblad" in threads that are about 35mm or TLRs or basically anything but Hasselblad. Kettle, pot and all that.
It arrived! I should apologize to the FedEx driver - today I sat on my porch to make sure I wouldn't miss it. It turns out she parks around the corner and walks to the houses on the block, so when I saw the truck yesterday she probably actually did visit my building and got no response. The camera is in about the shape I was expecting. KEH "ugly" encompasses a very wide range of conditions. This one comes in perfect condition in every way except for a small, deep scratch (chip?) on the front element. I am sure it will have as much effect on the image quality as an equivalent piece of dust on the front element would -- i.e. not very much. The only question I have for the peanut gallery here is how badly do you think it will impact resale value. I paid $1200 for this camera and its finder. If I decide in 6 months I really want a Mamiya 6 [unlikely], or I need the cash, could I recoup the investment?
The second question for SWC users is an oddity. I have two backs sitting on my desk right now, an early C12 with the window in the back and a late A24. For whatever reason, this SWC only works with the A24. It couples fine with the C12, but won't fire, as if the darkslide is still in or the film hasn't been advanced. Both work fine on my 500 C/M. Any ideas why?
Besides-- the subject is "Talk me out of...".
Which apparently, we failed miserably at doing.
I know! I was the only one that paid attention and Sirius got all mad at me!
SWC is fantastic. Brooks Plaubel Veriwide is a funky alternative, as it is, as the name says, Veriwide.
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