Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Steady as she goes there, lad [y]
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:49:41 -0400

> GEEEEZ! Do you work for Hasselblad? You'd think someone insulted your kid or
> something!

No, I just don't like absurd statements that have no basis in reality.

> I don't think the original poster was trashing Hasselblad, he was pointing
> out the problems shooting handheld out of a Helicopter. He was "using" a
> Hasselblad, so he must think it has value.
> Out of those "tens of thousands" of negatives how many were hand held out of
> a helicopter?

1,284.  I would have had 24 more, but one camera ended up on the tarmac....it wasn't worth saving.

> Mark Rutledge

> > > With the Hasselblad, at least one
> > >out of every three shots at 1/500th shows some signs of vibration, even
> > > with
> > >the 80mm lens.
> >
> > That's absurd.  Why not bring this up on the Hasselblad users list and see
> > how many people there see this 'problem'.  You either have a bad camera,
> > or
> > something is amiss in your technique.
> >
> > Hasselblads didn't become one of the top, if not the top, camera for
> > professional use because it produces fuzzy pictures.  I have shot tens of
> > thousands of negatives with my Hasselblads over the years, and never once
> > has a shot shown anything that can be attributed to 'vibration' in my
> > images.  I have taken some very critical shots, some blown up the size of
> > Kentucky....and they are sharp as a tack.

Replies: Reply from "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com> ([Leica] Re: Re: Steady as she goes there, lad [y])