Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/12

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Subject: [Leica] In which Kyle buys a Hasselblad....
From: kenfphoto at gmail.com (Ken Firestone)
Date: Thu Jul 12 17:39:30 2007
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC803081153F2@exchange8.asc.local>

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:
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> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe1.jpg
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe2.jpg
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> as they say "hooah!"
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> 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.
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> it LOOKS good though. and hopefully, i'll get film to pass through it this
> weekend.
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> THEN y'all are in trouble!
>
> yours,
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> Hasselblad Joe
>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] In which Kyle buys a Hasselblad....)