Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Where? And which Rollei and how much to dust it off and send it to USA 97034 zip On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > The problem in this country is not buying equipment, it is buying and, much > more importantly, processing 120 film... > Cheers > Jayanand (who still has a Mamiya 645 with 55/80/150 and a Rollei TLR > gathering dust) > > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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