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Hasselblad’s current digital offering is only really interesting in the commercial space where you only really need one if you’re getting paid enough to rent on

Hasselblad’s current digital offering is only really interesting in the commercial space where you only really need one if you’re getting paid enough to rent one on the first place. Plenty of alternatives exist as well when it comes to digital backs. The old film cameras are of niche interest, but Hassleblad isn’t making money off that.

hef19898 4y ago
With medium format like Hasselblad, the back are anyway seperate from the body. Hasselblads are great cameras, Leicas as well. Objects of desire both. I did some middleformat work as a teenager, not with Hasselblad so. But this whole looking down into the view finder to see a mirrored picture makes you think a lot more about composition and so on. I liked it, but film is just to much work for me at the moment. And digital backs for medium format way too expensive. I loved medium format in black and white so. Damn, now I have to find time to go through my dad's archive with him!
- antiterra 4y ago
  Leica is doing interesting things with prosumer digital too, though. The rangefinder ergonomics of the Leica Q allow for completely different use cases and feel even though it is hilariously overpriced compared to a competing Sony fixed-lens (RX1R or something like that.) Last I looked, it was at least a $1000 differential and the Sony beat the Leica handily on features and potential quality. I’d still never trade my Q for one.
  - hef19898 4y ago
    Leica makes great cameras, unfortunately as you said over priced... I never touched one of their digital ones, but I was furtunate enough to have a film one for a school project before going to university. The camera was loaned to my dad, who was generous enough to allow me to use it. It was great, really was. It kind of felt better than the Nikon F4 I usually got, but not that much better to justify the price. One thing I kind of dream about so is some Zeiss glass. Not that I'll ever be able to justify it so! Besides, I have developed a weakness for old Nikkor manual focus lenses. If I had a Leica so, I'd never trade it in for something else neither! Some things you just don't do!

hef19898 4y ago

With medium format like Hasselblad, the back are anyway seperate from the body. Hasselblads are great cameras, Leicas as well. Objects of desire both. I did some middleformat work as a teenager, not with Hasselblad so. But this whole looking down into the view finder to see a mirrored picture makes you think a lot more about composition and so on. I liked it, but film is just to much work for me at the moment. And digital backs for medium format way too expensive. I loved medium format in black and white so. Damn, now I have to find time to go through my dad's archive with him!

antiterra 4y ago
Leica is doing interesting things with prosumer digital too, though. The rangefinder ergonomics of the Leica Q allow for completely different use cases and feel even though it is hilariously overpriced compared to a competing Sony fixed-lens (RX1R or something like that.) Last I looked, it was at least a $1000 differential and the Sony beat the Leica handily on features and potential quality. I’d still never trade my Q for one.
- hef19898 4y ago
  Leica makes great cameras, unfortunately as you said over priced... I never touched one of their digital ones, but I was furtunate enough to have a film one for a school project before going to university. The camera was loaned to my dad, who was generous enough to allow me to use it. It was great, really was. It kind of felt better than the Nikon F4 I usually got, but not that much better to justify the price. One thing I kind of dream about so is some Zeiss glass. Not that I'll ever be able to justify it so! Besides, I have developed a weakness for old Nikkor manual focus lenses. If I had a Leica so, I'd never trade it in for something else neither! Some things you just don't do!