Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why sad for when a few dollars I can pick up a scad of good gear to shoot with On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Since all the wedding photographers unloaded their Hasselblad gear for > spare > compact flash cards and Hasselblad gear became devalued I've gotten all > kinds of cool dream Hassy gear I've always wanted for peanuts. > In Portland just about every time I walked into my pro photo camera shop I > walked out with the roll of film I was there to get plus a Hasselblad juicy > relic of my dreams. > A 60mm f3.5 CF Planar T* CF lens. My most useful relic. > A Nc-2 100 Prism viewfinder 45 degree for 100 bucks. I got it 10/18/2005. > I got the HC-1 Reflex 90 degree finder for 95 bucks a bit before that. > It was produced by a Hensoldt in 1961 who also made the NC-2. A renowned > German scope company for Zeiss and the German military. Ultra compact and > the camera can easily be turned on its side to shoot verticals with an A16 > or 16 back. I could not do that before with my existing more modern prisms. > These were made before the Polaroid backs. so they can be much more low > profile > The 16 back. Its an A16 back without the A. more fun. It was in a package > of > Crackerjacks. > Bellows lens shade > A16S back for square Superslides. Great fun. > All for peanuts. > 40134/TIBTC square bellows extension. For fifty bucks. > > And when a prosumer digital back any day now comes out which fits on the > back of a Hassy body this stuff will be back to costing thousands of Marks. > And I won't care I'll be out shooting with them not trading them on ebay. > > > > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:47:17 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] It's a sad Hasselblad day........ >> >> I'm glad Hasselblad stuff is so cheap now. There's no way I could have >> bought the kit I have now at the old sky-high prices. Hasselblad was like >> Leica, so costly that real working artists couldn't afford them...now we >> can. >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography >> Fort Wayne, Indiana >> 260-486-2581 >> >> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >> >> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! >> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >> Become a fan on Facebook >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information