Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Med Format, and boy, is this OT!!
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:16:22 -0700

Dan Post wrote:
> 
> Henning-
> I got to use an SWC for my niece's wedding. ><snip>
> I am a Leicaphile, but that SWC, despite the shortcomings, is one tool that
> is marvelous- and there is no real substitute out there, that I can tell!
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Henning J. Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
><snip>
> > Mark R wrote:
> >
> > >It's a whole different kind of fun! You're darn hard on that poor
> > >Hasselblad! ><snip>
> > The only Hasselblad I have now is the SWC, which I use in combination with
> > some Mamiya 6 stuff.><snip>
> >    *            Henning J. Wulff
><snip>

Last year a friend of mine who had lots of "gear" was showing some envoy
at one moment about my growing Leica M system.
I cheered him up by telling him that having a (Hasselblad)Superwide was
all the Leica he needed. For me there is still some truth to that
statement. I'm going to have to somehow make sure I don't turn 50
without owning and using at least a real old one.
This same friends Superwide is a real old one with non T* coating but he
feels he makes up for this by putting a new expensive Hasselblad UV
filter over it. The extreme folly of his ways I am not able to convey to him!
Mark Rabiner