Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/12

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Subject: [Leica] Old Hasselblad V with digital back, Leica, Fuji Xpro 1
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:54:14 -0700
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The major problem with that is that old digital back are good for may be
ISO 200. The newer ones may be ISO 400...

So if you are OK with that, they are really excellent.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Douglas Nygren <douglasnygren at 
yahoo.com>wrote:

> As Leica prices increase and increase (in order to make their Factory
> stores profitable or appealing to a retailer?), adding a digital back to my
> existing old Hasselblad V system becomes more tempting. Leica M prices and
> Hasselblad digital back prices are beginning to converge.
>
> Maybe instead of the M10, I'll consider the digital back the Hasselblad.
>
> Then again, it may be time to cash in and sell my used Leica gear and pick
> up the Hasselblad back and still have money left over to buy a Fuji xpro-1
> with M adapter and use any remaining Leica lenses on that.
>
>
> Cheers--Doug
>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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