[Leica] In which Kyle buys a Hasselblad....

[mak at teleport.com (mak@teleport.com)]

I heard he scored some Tech Pan 120 and was going to use that to cover all 
the details on one of his skanky goth models,,,

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
>Sent: Jul 12, 2007 4:24 PM
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] In which Kyle buys a Hasselblad....
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>http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe1.jpg
>http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe2.jpg
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>as they say "hooah!" 
>
>I've had it three days now and haven't figured out exactly how to take a 
>photo with it yet (red dot white dot, white dot white dot, white dot what?) 
>it seems to have all the worst features of both a 4x5 and an Edsel. One of 
>the things that really confused me, apart from multiple shutters which must 
>be "tensioned" one way or the other depending on the day of the week, was 
>the incorporation of a dark slide, which I immediately misplaced and didn't 
>care, figuring "i'll never use this" -- then took the magazine off only to 
>discover many hours later after banging the two pieces together, that one 
>cannot put the magazine back on the camera without the DARK SLIDE.
>
>it LOOKS good though. and hopefully, i'll get film to pass through it this 
>weekend.
>
>THEN y'all are in trouble!
>
>yours,
>
>Hasselblad Joe
>
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