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Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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mikew said:
Still a joke though at that price.
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I knew Hassie's were expensive, even for MF, but holy cow... $27.5K?!!

Thank gawd the shutter speed maxes out at 1/800 because with a continuous rate of 1.5 frames per second... I... I...

*scratches head*

I was going somewhere with this... Just gimme a minute.
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Horoscope Fish said:
Hassie's shut down if you take them outside; it's part of their patented "StudioSenz Technology".
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In all honesty they made there name at a time when the engineering on them was way ahead of most cameras,i had a 500CM and 500ELM,my wife did weddings on the CM and i did birds,flowers ect on the ELM,they where a joy to use.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
mikew said:
In all honesty they made there name at a time when the engineering on them was way ahead of most cameras,i had a 500CM and 500ELM,my wife did weddings on the CM and i did birds,flowers ect on the ELM,they where a joy to use.
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All kidding aside, I have the greatest respect for Hassie's... I've never handled one that wasn't a Studio Queen but their reputation absolutely precedes them.
 
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mikew_RIP

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Horoscope Fish said:
All kidding aside, I have the greatest respect for Hassie's... I've never handled one that wasn't a Studio Queen but their reputation absolutely precedes them.
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We had trouble with there backs scrunching the side of the film backing paper,we sent it back for checking and no fault was found,had quiet a few weeks of problems until we finally got an admission from Kodak they where using worn cutters that where making the backing paper too wide,they said it was not a problem with other cameras it was Hassleblads exact width that had caused the problem.

They always said what made there lenses so expensive was the amount that where rejected.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
I wonder what the photos would look like as compared to the FX Nikons. If you were doing gigantic prints I could see the benefit but just how big would you have to go to see the difference if it and say the D810?

I used to shoot with a Mamiya 645 and you could see the difference in it vs the 35mm but I am just not to sure about the difference a medium format digital would make in a normal size world.
 
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mikew_RIP

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Don Kuykendall said:
I wonder what the photos would look like as compared to the FX Nikons. If you were doing gigantic prints I could see the benefit but just how big would you have to go to see the difference if it and say the D810?

I used to shoot with a Mamiya 645 and you could see the difference in it vs the 35mm but I am just not to sure about the difference a medium format digital would make in a normal size world.
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I think most users would be better off with digital if for no other reason than the weak link would be the scanning,now if we still had Cibachrome that may change the results :D
 
Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

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Horoscope Fish said:
I knew Hassie's were expensive, even for MF, but holy cow... $27.5K?!!

Thank gawd the shutter speed maxes out at 1/800 because with a continuous rate of 1.5 frames per second... I... I...

*scratches head*

I was going somewhere with this... Just gimme a minute.
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You'll take two, then? ;)

Blacktop said:
Didn't read the shutter speed part. So I guess this camera is out for BIF shots.:)
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Not at all. It's just for really slow birds. ;)

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