Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Would Ansel Adams shoot Leica
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:40:53 -0700
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Miro Jurcevic wrote:
> 
> I remember as a teenage watching Ansel Adams on television doing his work
> and thinking how wonderful photography must be when you have all the time in
> the world to sit and plan a shot. How often does any person have that
> experience, especially with an SLR or Rangefinder ?
> 
> When you look at the bulk and size of a Hasselblad, it can only really be
> used in zero gravity or very carefully.
> 
> Miro

Miro my 500 cm with folding finder(new) and 80mm CF lens and 120 or 220 or 645
back and meter crank fits in the same little LowePro mini side bag as my
famously handy Rolleiflex 2.8 F.
While the handiness and utility of the Rolleiflex is seldom questioned people
think the Hasselblad is in a different category. It is if you have a prism on it
which doubles the weight and a bigger lens. I have a wrist strap on mine. And
with this strap and/or in it's mini side bag I've walked all over Portland ten
miles a day all day with the camera. The waist level finder (like the
Rolleiflex) makes for an instrument which you always are resting up against
something. Setting it on a book on a table to squeeze off shots. And your finger
is resting on the mirror pre release button so when you then hit the shutter
it's just a leaf shutter going off like the Rolleiflex. Not a series of clunks.
The Hasselblad is a small cube with a mirror in it. Light as a feather.
You can't get much more elegant then that.
The fact that it is modular does not have to be a hinderance.
Mark Rabiner

In reply to: Message from Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org> (RE: [Leica] Vest/jacket pocket's)
Message from "Miro Jurcevic" <miroj@ozemail.com.au> ([Leica] Would Ansel Adams shoot Leica)