Touched my first hasselblad this weekend!

TareqPhoto · Feb 23, 2012

RalphLambrecht said:
are you guys talking out of experience?

I don't know what do you mean by experience?!!!

jackie_like_the_chan · Feb 23, 2012

^ Experianced hasselblad touchers perhaps?

amsp · Feb 23, 2012

Here's a couple of photos from my first test rolls if anyone's interested...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hassy501cm

Thomas Bertilsson · Feb 23, 2012

The Hasselblad is pretty. It's the precious. Must have the precious.

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 23, 2012

Once you've experienced a Hassy, you become like Gollom lusting after that ring. The lust is way worst than GAS.

Magic2007 · Feb 24, 2012

Hassy is a dream camera, hope to find one in good condition.

Sirius Glass · Feb 24, 2012

jackie_like_the_chan said:
I finally got to take out my first (excluding the holga...) medium format camera from class! It was a hasselblad 500 c/m and let me just say WOW. I know it was a loaner but damn, we just go well together! I have a very very very bad feeling that my checking account is going to be sans the price of a new camera by the time this class is over... Once I got used to the backwards feeling, it felt so good to compose the shot and the negatives! They were gorgeous! Getting an extremely bad case of GAS!!!

Take a look at my signature.

My name is derived from buying the Hasselblad Zeiss Lenses.

Sirius Glass

Too old to care · Feb 26, 2012

Like you, I touched my first Hasselblad recently. Since then I cannot get it out of my hands. I put my Leica aside for the time being and do not regret it one bit.

Sirius Glass · Feb 27, 2012

Too old to care said:
Like you, I touched my first Hasselblad recently. Since then I cannot get it out of my hands. I put my Leica aside for the time being and do not regret it one bit.

I warned you, but no you knew better than to listen to me. Now you got what you deserve, in many nice ways.

Paul Goutiere · Feb 27, 2012

I've touched softer, pinker, prettier things than a Hasselblad, but none I could take a picture with.

aeoc · Mar 1, 2012

Paul Goutiere said:
I've touched softer, pinker, prettier things than a Hasselblad, but none I could take a picture with.

If you touch it too much you will get hairy palms.

KarnyDoc · Mar 3, 2012

I know what the OP means.

I bought my 500C/M in 2005 and had it overhauled and repaired by Hassy USA that summer. Worked reliably since.

Sadly, though, I had to sell it in December to pay an overdue bill. I listed it on Craigslist, and a couple bought it for their daughter's 21st birthday, a gift that was totally unexpected.

See, their daughter was studying photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and she'd rented the school's Hasselblad from time to time.

Her mother wrapped the camera in an old box that once held a pair of boots (talk about a red herring!), and was quite blown away by the gift. She was also delighted to be able to use it right away because I'd included seven rolls of Ilford HP5+ in the deal.

Dieter Zakas

mark · Mar 3, 2012

The OP went from a Holga to a Hassy. Isn't like going from a mule to a Ferrari? The price of the hesselblads are very reasonable. It is the cost of the glass that keeps them out of my hands.

skahde · Mar 4, 2012

I would gladly buy the lenses I have for my Blad at current prices and go on a long and nice vacation with it for the difference to the price I really paid for them back then.

36cm2 · Mar 4, 2012

mark said:
The OP went from a Holga to a Hassy. Isn't like going from a mule to a Ferrari?

mark · Mar 5, 2012

skahde said:
I would gladly buy the lenses I have for my Blad at current prices and go on a long and nice vacation with it for the difference to the price I really paid for them back then.

They are worth the money but still well out of my budget.

skahde · Mar 7, 2012

Looking through KEH's offerings I see your point. In Europe C-lenses have come down in price considerably more than in the US.

mark · Mar 7, 2012

Yep in the states it costs more to get a good piece of glass.

Touched my first hasselblad this weekend!

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