Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:43 AM 1/6/01 -0800, A. H. Ongun wrote: > >Hassy's are in a different market and have a niche among wedding/portrait >photogs. > >Andy Ugh!!! I don't think so!!! Hasselblad is the premier MF commercial camera system. Wedding photographers like AF (Nikon, Contax, Mamiya, etc.) Yes, many use Hasselblad, more use other cameras. Because of the extensive system, zone system support, auto-bracketing, entry level bodies, extensive electronic bodies, Super Wide, Super long APO and Super APO lenses, etc... Hasselblad is entrenched deeply in the commercial/illustrative photography market. Commercial, Illustrative, Advertising, Fine Art, and advanced amateur photographers out number Hasselblad wedding photographers by a H-U-G-E margin. While attending Brooks Institute of Photography and working as a commercial photographer for a dozen years afterward, I only saw Hasselblads used in a commercial venue. In all of the weddings that I attended over the past 40 years, I remember seeing Hasselblad used only twice. All the rest (many dozen) were Bronica, Mamiya, and Nikon. Even though I've always owned Hasselblad (except for a few years during the late 80's and early 90's) I have always used my Leica's to shoot weddings (personal favor to friends getting married) and I borrowed a Mamiya Flex TLR for one during a time when I had no Leica and my Hasselblad system had been stolen!!! (1963). Bummer! Insurance did not pay!!! Double bummer! 500C, two backs, 50, 80, & 150 lenses, sheet film back and ten sheet film holders. And I knew who it was but couldn't do anything about it! Jim