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Subject: [Leica] international shoot a roll of film day
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:22:10 -0600
References: <C7C1BE89.5F5C2%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

Are you admitting to, in the past, using one of your despised "cropped 
sensors" in your Hassie, albeit film?

If so, why do you hate 4/3s digital versions of the same approach?  This 
inquiring mind wants to know. ;-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] international shoot a roll of film day


>> so it was pouring rain. but i loaded up the HASSELblad and went out --  
>> sweet
>> barking cheese, 12 frames doesn't last long. i was just getting warmed up 
>> and
>> it was over. hard to focus too. and i'm soaked, my shoes squish when i 
>> walk.
>>
>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/filmday.jpg
>>
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>
> Hasselblad has a special "never run out of film" system you just blow 55
> bucks on a second back. A change of back happens in a seconds a model you
> might be shooting would barely notice. Nor would you.  Meanwhile as you 
> walk
> down the street  shooting sombody else loads the other back as they have 
> 12
> fames to do it in. My wife did it for 25 years on road trips and weekends.
> Or other people. Assistants. Or yourself during a lull.
> Much of the beauty of the system is in the backs.
> Put different film in the other back or more of the same.
> Shoot a Polaroid and then scan it.
>
> My first back was a 220 back. 24 on a roll.
> A16 backs are loads of fun as are A16s S stands for for superslide. 16
> stands for 645 format.
> They turn your 80 into a short tele in effect on top of the shape effects.
> All available for just about free at this point.
> I paid $555 or twice that.  You get to pay $55.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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