Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Miro Jurcevic wrote: > > I remember as a teenage watching Ansel Adams on television doing his work > and thinking how wonderful photography must be when you have all the time in > the world to sit and plan a shot. How often does any person have that > experience, especially with an SLR or Rangefinder ? > > When you look at the bulk and size of a Hasselblad, it can only really be > used in zero gravity or very carefully. > > Miro Miro my 500 cm with folding finder(new) and 80mm CF lens and 120 or 220 or 645 back and meter crank fits in the same little LowePro mini side bag as my famously handy Rolleiflex 2.8 F. While the handiness and utility of the Rolleiflex is seldom questioned people think the Hasselblad is in a different category. It is if you have a prism on it which doubles the weight and a bigger lens. I have a wrist strap on mine. And with this strap and/or in it's mini side bag I've walked all over Portland ten miles a day all day with the camera. The waist level finder (like the Rolleiflex) makes for an instrument which you always are resting up against something. Setting it on a book on a table to squeeze off shots. And your finger is resting on the mirror pre release button so when you then hit the shutter it's just a leaf shutter going off like the Rolleiflex. Not a series of clunks. The Hasselblad is a small cube with a mirror in it. Light as a feather. You can't get much more elegant then that. The fact that it is modular does not have to be a hinderance. Mark Rabiner