[Leica] Some say Hasselblad must only be used on tripod...

[Mark Rabiner]

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.


On 3/17/15 4:26 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 17, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>>  I used the camera intensively for 33.3 years and I never
>> felt the mirror slap and noise in the CM nor ELM to be the hindrance or
>> design flaw as its touted to be on this thing called the internet.
> 
> I used my 'blad day before yesterday.
> No hindrances or design flaws found.
> Love it.
> 
> YET - If I'd go photograph with that format
> at a church; during a service
> I'd take the Rollei TLR.
> and/or the Mamiya Press
> which I did on so many occasions.
> 
> not the 'blad
> which is - simply too loud
> not the correct tool for those venues.
> 
> for me the same sort of gear decision
> would apply for grabbing candids
> in close quarters.
> I'd choose between the lens shutters, without mirror slap, every time
> or, of course, the Leica Ms (over any 35 SLR).
> That's just how the gear "feels" to me.
> 
> Don't like hitting a fine chisel with a steel hammer head.
> Unless that's all there happens to be available at the time.
> 
> The 'blad is simply NOT
> a quiet stealthy piece of gear
> for me.
> 
> It's a beautiful, extremely useful tool
> for a whole lot of different photographic applications.
> And as a system? Virtually unmatched when you consider:
> the SWC, AutoBellows, Tubes, FlexBody, etc.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> 
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> 
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