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Subject: [Leica] Hasselblad digi-backs, lenses - was M9"M8
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:19:32 -0400

> You're correct that if you want to use that Hasselblad body, you
> don't have many options and you'll be using those (older) Hasselblad
> lenses and whatever back is available for it.
> 
> But that system is likely (and I'm guessing here, based on the fact
> that some components aren't made anymore) to be a dead end. So for
> that kind of money I'd want to have either a clear advantage over
> anything else in that price bracket, or something that has a future.
> Neither of those things seem convincing to me about the
> Hasselblad-500-as-digital option.


Yep spare parts on the ancient Hassy v system are about gone and the lenes
are about to die of old age.


Mark William Rabiner





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