Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Are you going to get the digital back for it? I think they were discounting it a couple of months ago. On 7/12/07, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote: > > > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe1.jpg > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe2.jpg > > as they say "hooah!" > > I've had it three days now and haven't figured out exactly how to take a > photo with it yet (red dot white dot, white dot white dot, white dot what?) > it seems to have all the worst features of both a 4x5 and an Edsel. One of > the things that really confused me, apart from multiple shutters which must > be "tensioned" one way or the other depending on the day of the week, was > the incorporation of a dark slide, which I immediately misplaced and didn't > care, figuring "i'll never use this" -- then took the magazine off only to > discover many hours later after banging the two pieces together, that one > cannot put the magazine back on the camera without the DARK SLIDE. > > it LOOKS good though. and hopefully, i'll get film to pass through it this > weekend. > > THEN y'all are in trouble! > > yours, > > Hasselblad Joe > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >