Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, Mark, but a Hasselblad does not go "click" that would be at the most a Rolleiflex TLR. Hassy's, just like the Rolleiflex SL66, have distinct mirror slaps that are more like a "clonk" (see this German Hassy site for a sound sample: http://www.stefanheymann.de/501cm/hassi-ausloesen.mp3). The Contax 645 mirror is surprisingly well damped, allowing a shutter of up to 1/4000 sec., and making this MF camera very suited for handheld and wildlife photography (if only Kyocera/Zeiss had bothered to offer a 500mm lens...!). The additional sounds you described are from the actually very quiet 1.6 fps built-in winder. Just for the record, Jan ----------------------------- I went out shooting with a friend of mine from Denmark he with his new Contax 645 had had for a few weeks, me with my Hasselblad CM I'd had a few decades. no tripods this time. We both lined up for the same shots. I'd go click. He'd go click buzz zap clank click. 8 things had to happen on this Contax 645 before it would take a picture. Compared to the Hasselblad it definably lacked a certain kind of elegance. He traded in his entire Contax 645 system for Hasselblad the following week. He was, by the way, normally a tripod shooter. Mark William Rabiner