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Subject: [Leica] OT: Contax 645 one more time
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:43:35 +0100
References: <C6AE8672.52FC2%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Didn't they take all the reflex stuff out of those cameras and use a  
wire finder?
Anyway, not likely to be at any shutter speed used by me in England  
most of the year...
Frank

On 17 Aug, 2009, at 09:00, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> I always thought a Hasselblad went off like a hand grenade. Beautiful
>> design and functional but I did not get good results except on a
>> tripod personally.
>> Frank
>>
>> On 17 Aug, 2009, at 02:12, Jan Decher wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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"
>>
>
>
> Here's a hand held Hassy shot which didn't get seen by too many  
> people was I
> was done with the E back on the trip which held black and white.
> Its the first Earth rise ever seen by a human.
> At the very moment it happened.
> The more famous color shots came later.
>
> http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/photos/e/as08-13-2329.jpg
>
> from
> http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/14day4_orbits456.htm
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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