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Greg Heath · Oct 10, 2012

This week I purchased a pre-owned Hasselblad 503cx outfit. Why did I wait so long... It's beautiful.
I'm afraid my wife will see me cuddling with it, so i hid all the sledgehammers...

dehk · Oct 10, 2012

Smart thinking on hiding the sledgehammers.

jordanstarr · Oct 10, 2012

...you might want to take it's number off your cell phone too -wives look at your contact list when you leave your phone lying around.

MattKing · Oct 10, 2012

Greg Heath said:
This week I purchased a pre-owned Hasselblad 503cx outfit. Why did I wait so long... It's beautiful.
I'm afraid my wife will see me cuddling with it, so i hid all the sledgehammers...

Offer to let your wife cuddle it too

smiling gecko · Oct 10, 2012

congratulations!!!

take that rascal EVERYWHERE with you...for me, the square format is my absolute favorite...i compose and print square and loooove it...and i hope you will too.

breathe, relax and enjoy.
smiling gecko aka kenneth

Two23 · Oct 10, 2012

Greg Heath said:
This week I purchased a pre-owned Hasselblad 503cx outfit. Why did I wait so long... It's beautiful.
I'm afraid my wife will see me cuddling with it, so i hid all the sledgehammers...

Back in July I bought a vintage 1942 Leica IIIc, with 5cm Elmar. It sits on my nightstand while I sleep. My wife named it "Debbie."

Kent in SD

rorye · Oct 10, 2012

Congratulations, there's nothing like that first Hasselblad.

Kc2edh · Oct 10, 2012

I love my Bronica and the pictures it produces, but I guess the trade-off wasn't only price, but cuddlyness too. I have yet to use the words "Bronica" and "beautiful" in a sentence!

Greg Heath · Oct 11, 2012

If I left it on the nightstand....it might be gone in the morning.

I love it soooo much along with my other Medium Format cameras I created a website for it.... http://gregheath.com

Just having a bit of fun..

I only have 2 photos up right now, but I will be out shooting tomorrow.
I used the website for practice for developing a website for a friend. Rapidweaver for the Mac is awesome.

Greg

Richard S. (rich815) · Oct 11, 2012

Congrats. Love my Hassy. Got to use it more.

tron_ · Oct 11, 2012

Forwarding this thread to the OPs wife. She is going to be crushed, but I feel she should know.

lxdude · Oct 11, 2012

Greg, you just have to convince your wife that the relationship is purely platonic. One tip: never refer to it as "My Scandinavian beauty".

wblynch · Oct 11, 2012

Two23 said:
Back in July I bought a vintage 1942 Leica IIIc, with 5cm Elmar. It sits on my nightstand while I sleep. My wife named it "Debbie."

Kent in SD

So now you can get a girlfriend named Debbie and....

:devil: Oops, never mind

pgomena · Oct 11, 2012

You now have an insatiable mistress who constantly wants expensive "accessories" and has a desire to "go out" all the time. Guard your credit card.

Peter Gomena

andrew.roos · Oct 12, 2012

I think my Bronica is beautiful... but envy you your new Hasselblad nonetheless. Have fun and make great photographs.

Sirius Glass · Oct 13, 2012

Greg Heath said:
This week I purchased a pre-owned Hasselblad 503cx outfit. Why did I wait so long... It's beautiful.
I'm afraid my wife will see me cuddling with it, so i hid all the sledgehammers...

Congratulations!!

Just tell the wife that no one wants those old bulky film cameras so you only had to pay $20 at a garage sale.

Alan Gales · Oct 13, 2012

Take some family photographs with the Blad. Women love pictures of their kids or grandkids. This will convert your wife.

After you convert your wife, tell her you need more lenses for the camera so you can take even better pictures.

Hatchetman · Oct 13, 2012

Some guys get all the luck. I have to sleep with a Pentax 6x7. Is it wrong?

erikg · Oct 13, 2012

Don't ask, don't tell. Please don't tell.

Joseph Maxwell · Oct 13, 2012

I second that - nothing beats the SQUARE!

Ezzie · Oct 14, 2012

I´ve found cast iron frying pans can be very useful when smashing things is on the menu, or at least my wife has. Now I buy cameras that look reasonably alike so that she can´t tell how many I have. I have the Kowa Super 66, once called the poor man´s Hassy, could be I could sneak in a 500 series under the radar.

Congratulations by the way

Jeff Kubach · Oct 14, 2012

That is great!

Jeff

wblynch · Oct 15, 2012

I just tell my wife, "That's what happens when I put two of these in a dark corner together. It's nature!"

Nah, she doesn't believe me either.

Alan Gales · Oct 17, 2012

Ezzie said:
I´ve found cast iron frying pans can be very useful when smashing things is on the menu, or at least my wife has. Now I buy cameras that look reasonably alike so that she can´t tell how many I have. I have the Kowa Super 66, once called the poor man´s Hassy, could be I could sneak in a 500 series under the radar.

Congratulations by the way

Trust me. Women (if they are not into photography) can't tell one camera from another, even if it's a different format.

Kowa's are fine cameras. Hasselblads are better and of course much more expensive especially when you start buying the Zeiss lenses.

Shooting either camera you will end up taking the same photographs.

Spend your money on film. That's always the best way to go!

Alan Gales · Oct 17, 2012

Alan Gales said:
Trust me. Women (if they are not into photography) can't tell one camera from another, even if it's a different format.

Kowa's are fine cameras. Hasselblads are better and of course much more expensive especially when you start buying the Zeiss lenses.

Shooting either camera you will end up taking the same photographs.

Spend your money on film. That's always the best way to go!

I'm not trying to piss off women here. The same deal goes for men. If my wife buys new make-up, I can't tell it from the old. If she told me her new shoes were 5 years old, I wouldn't know the difference.

We pay attention to what we are interested in.

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