Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] It's a sad Hasselblad day........
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:08:41 +0530
References: <C9620368.9B75%mark@rabinergroup.com> <906D3578-25C6-47D7-A8DC-7159F88A2982@teleport.com>

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
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Replies: Reply from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com) ([Leica] It's a sad Hasselblad day........)
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] It's a sad Hasselblad day........)
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