Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/18

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Subject: [Leica] Hasselblad point and shoot thinks its an Alpa
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert G Adler)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:46:27 -0700
References: <CC7E6D42.23B52%mark@rabinergroup.com> <F4C42472-D191-4E97-B235-9E6AEBC041AA@archiphoto.com>

Like!

Bob Adler

On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> 
wrote:

> Those Hasselblad things are a truly ugly joke. They make things like the 
> various Leica Special Editions look like the epitome of restraint, taste 
> and value. On the other hand, the Alpas are for real, and can do things no 
> other cameras can.
> 
> See: http://www.alpa.ch/en/microsites/alpa_12_fps.html
> 
> With this, you can put a Canon 17mm TS-E lens in front of an 80Mp MF 
> digital back and still have shift capability left over! No other camera, 
> and certainly no Hasselblad can touch that.
> 
> If I was still doing a lot of well paying architectural jobs, I'd be all 
> over that item.
> 
> Henning
> 
> 
> On 2012-09-18, at 3:26 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> For only 5000 euros = 6518.0000 US dollars you can get in the next months
>> announced for Photokina a 1.5x crop APS-C 24.3 megapixel Hasselblad
>> mirrorless with little wood side grip pieces which enable you to spend 
>> even
>> more money like buying a modern Alpa only not super high quality - the
>> opposite.
>> I wonder if they'll have the see though Plexiglas grip? That would be
>> groovy.
>> Its called a Hasselblad Luna but its designed to be used on earth.
>> Wood cameras on the moon? One must make ones imagination take a giant 
>> leap.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Hasselblad point and shoot thinks its an Alpa)
In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Hasselblad point and shoot thinks its an Alpa)
Message from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Hasselblad point and shoot thinks its an Alpa)