Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Since all the wedding photographers unloaded their Hasselblad gear for spare compact flash cards and Hasselblad gear became devalued I've gotten all kinds of cool dream Hassy gear I've always wanted for peanuts. In Portland just about every time I walked into my pro photo camera shop I walked out with the roll of film I was there to get plus a Hasselblad juicy relic of my dreams. A 60mm f3.5 CF Planar T* CF lens. My most useful relic. A Nc-2 100 Prism viewfinder 45 degree for 100 bucks. I got it 10/18/2005. I got the HC-1 Reflex 90 degree finder for 95 bucks a bit before that. It was produced by a Hensoldt in 1961 who also made the NC-2. A renowned German scope company for Zeiss and the German military. Ultra compact and the camera can easily be turned on its side to shoot verticals with an A16 or 16 back. I could not do that before with my existing more modern prisms. These were made before the Polaroid backs. so they can be much more low profile The 16 back. Its an A16 back without the A. more fun. It was in a package of Crackerjacks. Bellows lens shade A16S back for square Superslides. Great fun. All for peanuts. 40134/TIBTC square bellows extension. For fifty bucks. And when a prosumer digital back any day now comes out which fits on the back of a Hassy body this stuff will be back to costing thousands of Marks. And I won't care I'll be out shooting with them not trading them on ebay. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:47:17 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] It's a sad Hasselblad day........ > > I'm glad Hasselblad stuff is so cheap now. There's no way I could have > bought the kit I have now at the old sky-high prices. Hasselblad was like > Leica, so costly that real working artists couldn't afford them...now we > can. > > > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-486-2581 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information