Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The camera was styled by Sixten Sason IIRC but the concept was by Victor himself. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 20. joulukuuta 2001 20:49 Aihe: [Leica] OT: Hasselblad History >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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html