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Subject: [Leica] In which Kyle buys a Hasselblad....
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Fri Jul 13 17:50:16 2007
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC803081153F2@exchange8.asc.local>

Kyle,

Yes! It is indeed a tough camera to learn.  It took my 9 year old niece
a full 15 minutes to read the owners manual, load a roll of film and
take a dozen pictures of our cats.

Jerry


Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe1.jpg
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hasselblad-joe2.jpg
>
> as they say "hooah!" 
>
> I've had it three days now and haven't figured out exactly how to take a 
> photo with it yet (red dot white dot, white dot white dot, white dot 
> what?) it seems to have all the worst features of both a 4x5 and an Edsel. 
> One of the things that really confused me, apart from multiple shutters 
> which must be "tensioned" one way or the other depending on the day of the 
> week, was the incorporation of a dark slide, which I immediately misplaced 
> and didn't care, figuring "i'll never use this" -- then took the magazine 
> off only to discover many hours later after banging the two pieces 
> together, that one cannot put the magazine back on the camera without the 
> DARK SLIDE.
>
> it LOOKS good though. and hopefully, i'll get film to pass through it this 
> weekend.
>
> THEN y'all are in trouble!
>
> yours,
>
> Hasselblad Joe
>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] In which Kyle buys a Hasselblad....)