[Leica] wide angle to Hasselblad OT Rave

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

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> 
> Isn't is interesting that  when you're 15-years-old a birthday 11-months
> into the future seems like a century away; but at 49, it's "just around the
> corner"? Of course, waiting for a Hasselblad Super-Wide may make your 50th
> seem like the next century; which, in this intance,  would actually be the
> case.
> 
> Along the same lines, right out of college a new M camera seemed
> astronomically expensive. Whereas after 20 plus years in the workforce it
> seems ....I was going to say affordable, but I can't seem to do so. An
> M6... Hexar...heck, especially the Super-Wide; they all seem astronomically
> expensive! Or is it just me that perceives it such?
> 
> David.

When I was 13 it was '65 and I saw my first postage stamp sized picture of a
Hasselblad in the back of a Pop Photo.
I instantly glitched on it. I saw immediately what the modular thing was all
about and how it all basically worked.
It sold complete with lens and back for I believe less than 500 dollars but it
might as well been 5 thousand as 5 million.
So under the holiday tree I would look for Hasselblad sized packages every dear
and was disappointed of course.
I got that dream finally in '80 15 years later at the age of 21. But it turned
out to not be my dream camera after all.
First of all i made the mistake of getting an ELM. Not like putting an MD-11 on
a Nikon FM it turns the camera into a grinding monster.
Five years later I got a 50 and 80 to complete my system as I started out with
only a 150 and five years after that I got a simple CM body.
With all the "Man from Uncle" attachments I got for that system the most
important was the simple CM body itself, the bright Acumat groundglass, and the
folding finder. Still the other night I shot a rock group here and I shot 2
rolls with the M6 and the 50 Summicron and one roll with my Rolleiflex 2.8 F
TLR. Still I shot invaluable Polaroids with the ELM. How much does the 80 2.8
Planar on the Hasselblad match the 80 2.8 Planer on the Rolleiflex? Close enough
for Polaroids to be an invaluable help.
But the SWC Biogon is a Hasselblad gone Leica. A perfect wide angle instrument
for me!
Mark Rabiner