A Hasselblad, more than 40 years after first looking.

Vince Lupo said:
At the moment it seems so for me - unfortunately due to my commercial workload and household commitments, I haven’t been able to get out into the world beyond my backyard for any personal work. So it seems that it’s going to be like this for at least the next few weeks.

I’ve gone back to using the 1000f with the digital back, as I prefer the way it works over the 1600f. I also have my eye on another very interesting lens, but I have to wait until next month. Hopefully the seller will still have it and he’ll be open to a bit of negotiation.
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Milking the backyard as you have is a great exercise of the eye and the mind. Standing in the right place in the right light can make s lot of things into great pictures. It is a great challenge and exercise for any aspiring photographer. You have me thinking. It very likely has been a classroom assignment often and for good reason.
 
In reflection my backyard is unkempt, to put it politely. I will have to keep on with my other "backyard", the drydock down the hill from me. I love the shapes and colors of the boats and their hulls. It is close, it is about where I now live and every once in a great while interesting. You have been warned. ;o)
 
boojum said:
In reflection my backyard is unkempt, to put it politely. I will have to keep on with my other "backyard", the drydock down the hill from me. I love the shapes and colors of the boats and their hulls. It is close, it is about where I now live and every once in a great while interesting. You have been warned. ;o)
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Hasselblad 500c/m 80mm
(Phone snapshot of darkroom print)

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I often contemplate selling my
500c/m.
Since I only have the 80mm for the Hasselblad my Rolleiflex gets more use. However, I just can't seem to bring myself to do it!
 
Here's a recent shot from my 500C. I gotta say that--from the perspective of several decades, using a bunch of different cameras--the Hasselblad is a complicated, eccentric, temperamental piece of business just waiting to screw you up, unless you're using it all the time and are aware of its foibles. Accidentally snag the dark slide? Check. Jam it up removing a lens? Yep. Waste time fiddling with that silly shutter speed/aperture linkage? Uh-huh. Try to remember what the red signal means on the film mag (is it exposed, or empty? It can mean both.) Hook it up to a modern flash trigger? Good luck. But when it works, it does take nice pictures.
 

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