Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And others of us stuck them (or sheet film) on Foba studio stands (way better than tripods) with many flash units to compare with your experiences... Or, dare I say it, shot hand held in good light.... john -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner Shooting hand held in 35mm format does not dumb down the results to the extent that it doesn't matter much if you are using a cheap system or a premium system. But using a medium format camera hand held is a thing some think is crazy like a nature landscape guy but a huge percentage of shots done with a Hassy or Mamiya were by people who never took their high speed strobe off the camera and shot events or even used them in the studio with no tripod with studio strobes. So the advantages of the large format were not lost to camera shake or anything else. Its just you got flash pictures. On 12/10/15 4:16 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote: > I have used RB/RZ, and owned/used most of Hasselblad V at one stage or > another (F lenses and the 203 series and up are the exception) and had > G1/G2 and lenses.... > > Now happy with Leica ;-) Just been reunited with my full kit and > ancillaries (tripods, lesser used lenses etc), have to say that seeing > all the bags, boxes and cases in one place looks a little excessive.... > > john > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Pearce > > I was once employeed by a large factory, nad the chief photographer > required that we all use the company's RB67's. HAND HELD! the glass > was in no way Zeiss. Later when I went out on my own, I jumped into > blad gear with both feet. Still got it,can't bring myself to sell it, > even though I'm mainly out of film. They are worth the money in every way. > > And when I had my brief flirtation with Contax g cameras, I used their > zeiss lenses, manufactured by Kyocera under strict Zeiss supervision. > I still miss those lenses, especially the 28. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rabiner > > This is a culture which embraces safe mediocre bourgeois values and is > put off by anything which results in excellence. And feels super > threatened by a premium product to the extent that have have to come > up with lame put downs on it. > In the 90's if you wanted to get a premium product and do really > quality commercial work you could get Zeiss for Hasselblad lenses > which cost a decimal point over it competition which came on the scene > late: Bronica, Mamiya, Pentax and people would say the quality of the > Hassy glass made for negs which were "difficult to print". Which is > blithering nonsense as we'd been making perfect images from Hassy > Zeiss glass for decades which defined the decade in the commercial > world.. And not that different from Leica in 35mm price wise and BS wise. > People who are not in the mindset to invest in a premium product say > "you'll never see the difference anyway" but then don't stop there > they go on to say "getting quality that good presets problems". > But then they're not trying to fool anybody they're just trying to > change the subject. > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >