Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The problem in this country is not buying equipment, it is buying and, much more importantly, processing 120 film... Cheers Jayanand (who still has a Mamiya 645 with 55/80/150 and a Rollei TLR gathering dust) On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> wrote: > Why sad for when a few dollars I can pick up a scad of good gear to shoot > with > On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >