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

[Aram Langhans]

I remember sitting in a church at a friend's wedding when from the back of 
the church we heard this "CLACK, CLACK"  and everyone turned around to see 
what the heck it was.  Well, it was the photographer shooting his RB67. 
Talk about noise...  Must have been the first time he used it, as he put it 
away and shoot with a 35mm the rest of the ceremony.  Didn't see the RB 
until much later.  A Hassy is much quieter than that, and sat through many a 
wedding when the photographer was using one.  I think you are correct, Mark. 
It was ubiquitous and expected..

Aram

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From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:25 PM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Some say Hasselblad must only be used on tripod...

> 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
>>
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>>
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