A Hasselblad, more than 40 years after first looking.

Richard G said:
Selling off some stuff is what I should be doing. I've never sold anything. Interesting to pare down to "just Hasselblad".
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I think in reality I’ll still have a few other cameras besides the Hasselblads and the Nikon Z7. ‘Ideally’ I’d like to have my Hasselblads plus my Leica IIIa Tiranty, the Contessa-Nettel Deckrullo Tropical 4.5x6cm and maybe the Jeanneret Monobloc 6x13cm stereo/panoramic. That would be perfect but I’d certainly entertain selling these other cameras for the right price. Getting there!
 
Inventory control has suddenly hit me. All I’ve done so far is keep the boxes for lenses acquired in the last twenty years. The digital Ms are most in use and disposable ultimately at 13 years old. The M2 was given to me. The M6 and 35 ‘cron I’ll give to the child of mine with our first grandchildren….But that leaves too many lenses. For Hasselblad it will all need to go in time, only one camera and a 50, 60, 80, 150 and 250. Better for me to do this than my busy heirs. I have books now worth a lot of money. They should be sold similarly. This realization comes all in a rush the last twelve months.
 
Evergreen States said:
You're probably a little old to be rebelling against Catholic school authorities but my point was that you aren't too old to wear tights and combat boots if you want to.
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Got the Docs, sorry no tights 🙂

My high school recollections referred to seeing punk rockers in the early 1980s on the subways and in downtown Toronto. That was one of their modes of dress.
 
Vince Lupo said:
Got the Docs, sorry no tights 🙂

My high school recollections referred to seeing punk rockers in the early 1980s on the subways and in downtown Toronto. That was one of their modes of dress.
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Heck yeah. Have you ever run across the work of Dave Green? He documented the periphery of the 1980s Toronno punk scene - a lot of pictures of his friends huddled around jukeboxes in working class diners long since lost to gentrification. I like his work a lot, and I like yours too for that matter.
 
Evergreen States said:
Heck yeah. Have you ever run across the work of Dave Green? He documented the periphery of the 1980s Toronno punk scene - a lot of pictures of his friends huddled around jukeboxes in working class diners long since lost to gentrification. I like his work a lot, and I like yours too for that matter.
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Nope don’t know Dave Green - will have to look him up. Maybe my friend Rick McGinnis might know him - he was shooting for local publications in the city then.
 
Evergreen States said:
You're probably a little old to be rebelling against Catholic school authorities but my point was that you aren't too old to wear tights and combat boots if you want to.
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Catholic school, from what I've seen, is for life. I have friends who are pushing seventy, and still rebelling. Some of them are even aware that they are! 😉
 
My new Hasselblad A500 magazine by Nokton48, on Flickr

I bought this unit, had to return it. The frame counters did not work properly at all. I was lucky to get my money back, it was a big hassle! Happy to play with it for a while. One hundred feet of 70mm gives you 500 exposures. Fits the 500C/M or the 500 EL/M. Runs off of an EL/M battery.
 
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The trouble I have with HB is using it. I have a couple of other good cameras and lenses for them. And they shoot great. But the HB I have, the X2D, just seems to do things better. It turns it up to 11. It is the crack cocaine of the camera world. I will avoid the HB for weeks, months, at a time. Then pick it up and shoot some images and wonder just why the hell I ever bother with the other cameras. I am not that good so I need all the help I can get. The X2D is generous.

I caught this fellow on his fishing boat in our harbor and chatted with him. He is down from Alaska, from a fishing family and came here for the weather, and fish. He was a pleasant guy and agreed to have his picture taken. Skin tones and detail are good, the boat looks good, it all looks good with the X2D even when it doesn't.

B0002253 by West Phalia, on Flickr​
 
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