Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:32 PM 12/20/01 -0500, Dan Post wrote: >Marc >Correct me if I stray off course, but I thought I read that Victor >Hasselblad was actually an ornithologist, and he specifically designed the >camera to photograph birds in the manner he wanted. I always thought that >the reason the camera was such a success, was because it was designed by a >USER and not by an engineer with some vague notion of what a photographer >needs (shades of the Edsel!). Sorry, Dan. Victor Hasselblad had little input into the actual design of the camera bearing his name. Read Nordin's COMPENDIUM for details. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html