[Leica] Leica SL: Worst Camera of the Year?

[Richard Man]

Indeed, those joke cameras were rebadged Sony digital cameras, sold for
7x-10x the prices, with the added wood grip and other non-sense features.
At least it appears that the current Hasselblad corporate owner is no
longer pursuing that brain-dead strategy.


On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Crew,
> There wasn't, nor is there anything wrong with a Hasselblad if you are
> using
> the 2 1/4 120 film cameras. During part of my Leica life I also used 3
> Hasselblad cameras when shooting for some clients and magazines. As the
> Photo editor or the art directors called the shot on acceptable film size!
> ERGO? If you wanted to do assignments for  their magazine you worked with
> their size.
> Now maybe what you lads are talking about is some "Mickey Mouse?" China
> made
> 35mm size badged Hasselblad that could well be a piece of copy-cat junk?
>
> But there isn't anything wrong, nor was there anything with a 2 1/4 120
> film
> size Hassie as they were a wonderful machine to work with. Only the odd
> time
> the 2 1/4  Sq.format was a bit of a pain in the ass!
> cheers,
> Dr. ted
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Ken Carney
> Sent: January-12-16 4:59 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica SL: Worst Camera of the Year?
>
> I thought Hasselblad's were good cameras? Used by the astronauts and all
> that?
>
> On 1/12/2016 11:03 AM, Robert Baron wrote:
> >
> http://photorumors.com/2016/01/11/2015-worst-camera-of-the-year-vote-now/
> >
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