Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank Farmer wrote: > > B.D. > > I know at least one studio down here that has dropped the Hassey 2 1/4 format for the Olympus. He is now considering the Kodak 14 megapixel body. Of course, he hasn't completely dropped his 'blads - he still uses them for weddings and whatnot cause he can't bring himself to trust digital THAT much. But for studio work he rarely uses film anymore. Granted, that is just one guy down here in MS. > Some people think of their cameras as tools to pay the rent. Others, me i get more involved with them. Not putting them under my pillow at night but certainly a camera has spent time on the end table next to my bed next to my alarm clock. Just so it don't get lost in the middle of the night! Later on a week or so it goes to be with the rest of the cameras down stairs. When i was 13 in 1964 or 5 I bought a Popular Photography Magazine, my first issue and which in the back had lots of small adds some of which features topless shots of women which for me was what National Geographic was for others before me. Some definite inspiration. And allowed in my house! (Mad magasine was not allowed in my house and for that matter either were regular comic books like Superman or Batman) Also in the back of that magaine was a thumbnail, pinkynail sized picture of a camera called a "Hasselblad". I think it was going for 3 hundred bucks which for me a that time might as well been 30 thousand bucks. More money than i was going to see in a decade. And i was right. But the point being that somehow at my then tender level of photographic knowledge and expertise glitched on the camera immediately and understood it immediately. Understood how it was a simple cube which took lenses on the front, finders on the top and on from there. And the square format. I didn't get one for the holidays the next year so the holidays for me was in effect, a wash. Next year either. I waited 14 years. 14 miserable holidays. Told the Bank we were getting Chevy Nova. I love Olympus cameras I've got some Pen FT stuff and an XA clamshell. But trade in my Hassy's for an Olympus dig? To me that's like trading in my car for a skateboard and a pair of in-line roller-skates. Nothing gets between me and my Hasselblads. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA Photography Website: http://www.rabinergroup.com Email: mark@rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html