Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 17, 2015, at 6:25 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I do think a photographer using a Hasselblad shooting a wedding is > ubiquitous. Expected. > In the late '90's when the digital thing hit the used cases in the camera > stores were flooded with used Hassy gear selling for a song most of which > came from wedding photographers going digital. I got all kinds of cool > stuff > then. Old finders which were much more compact as there was no Polaroid > back > to bend around. Zeiss glass selling for peanuts. Odd format backs like > A16s's which were superslide backs. You name it. > Almost all from wedding photographers who looked upon their Hassys as cash > machines. I'm sure a few were good. absolutely wonderful wedding machines especially for the after ceremony group shots and the reception stuff candids before the ceremony and most especially during the ceremony not so much not for me anyway it really just comes down to to comfort levels photographer with their gear clients with the photographer ministers, rabbis, priests' personal rules et al Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist