Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, Yes! It is indeed a tough camera to learn. It took my 9 year old niece a full 15 minutes to read the owners manual, load a roll of film and take a dozen pictures of our cats. Jerry Kyle Cassidy wrote: > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe1.jpg > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe2.jpg > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >