People sometimes think I'm shooting film with my first Gen Sony 7s/r and manual focus lenses. They'll just think I'm a bloody hipster, not rich, with this one😂
@@shellshock10 People that hit the lottery. People who invested in bitcoin when it was pennies. People who inherited 14 generations of blood line of money.
I had a friend who's an advance amateur. He was shooting with his 35 camera for quite some time. Then he tried a Hasselblad. He was impressed with the increase of the picture quality it gave him. He jumped in feet first into medium format. Then he tried a 4x5 view camera. Again he was impressed with the improvement of picture quality. He moved quickly to 8x10 and worked with that for a few years. He was doing direct printing from the negative. His girlfriend had did a couple of books. They took off for a few weeks to take photos of county fairs around a few states. It was going to be for her next book.
@@SamRielly Did the Nikon ever make it down to the surface? IIRC on Apollo 15 it was mounted in the rendezvous window. Not a knock on Nikon, their cameras made a tremendous difference in photojournalism in that same period of history but my recollection is that Hasselblads took pretty much all of the famous and influential handheld still photo moon shots like the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo etc
@@SamRielly i had a look through the USRA Lunar Planetary Institute site’s Apollo Atlas and browsed by camera and for 35mm Nikon I can only find orbital shots and shots of things inside of the capsule and only for Apollo 17. Which isn’t nothing, but also does not appear to include anything actually shot while on the surface of the moon. I think it may have seen much more use during later missions like Skylab IIRC
@@Chirishman6 You know, you could be right. I have a nikkor 50mm 1.4 from the 60's that I could have sworn was used on the moon. It may have just been in space from the same time period
I know where there is a free Hassleblad you can simply pick up and keep. Its a one owner and used only for a few days. Its a classic film 60's model and comes with a unique history. Most likely you have seen photographs taken with it. Yours free. Just pick it up. The only problem is its on the moon, left by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Finally !!.... After 15 years in the business countless hours, sleepless nights, the hard work the blood, sweat and tears, the grind, All put in to afford ... A Hassalblad branded camera strap !
Hardly like that, they are expensive compared to say Nikon, but not by a gigantic difference at feature parity. I've played with several - just not my jam. Very nicely made but not practical or particularly usable in general. I used to be a Nikon guy, but after using and owning all sorts of cameras by all brands, what do I use by FAR the most? Sony. I'll take Sony over anything else every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Most of all because of the picture quality, or rather the versatility, by which I mean that a Sony is more likely to take very consistently good pictures regardless of circumstances. Nikon is great in a studio set up, Canon will capture magic in nature, but Sony is so close it's near impossible to tell at both of those AND all the junk in between. I don't love Sony menus, and it'll disable or change settings on it's damn own without warning. BUT they work always and take good pictures. I'll live with the menu system and self changing settings.
I’ve wanted the Hasselblad x1d since the first one was shown at Photo Expo in NYC . Then the 907 when it was first introduced. Can’t afford them but love them!
First of all, it would be rather difficult to make it, and it would weigh a lot(likely to be heavier than you can carry(and just remember that you would require bigger and heavier lenses to give coverage over the whole sensor). Another reason is that nobody would have enough kidneys to pay for that
Yes, sure - what makes this one revolutionary is that you can attach the digital back to hasselblads film cameras. Even to those multiple decades old. You get one of the best sensors and software, but with the look of old film cameras. Thats what makes this camera great. Sad almost no one can actually afford it reasonably.
@@ilovedagreenday I was shocked too, but they acquired majority in stock back in 2017. Which is why the name was added to the drones and other products.
Close friend of mine has a 501CM he brings to events regularly. I've gotten to use it on a couple occasions. A bit disorienting at first but it's so much fun.
Given that my hobbies are playing guitar, photography, and collecting watches. The price tag on this thing is fairly reasonable. It's all about perspective.
Of all the cameras in the world thats the one i want most esp with a old hasselblad like in the video with it . Such a Beautiful and inspirimg camera to use
I know very little about photography... But have always admired the quality of Engineering in all Cameras... This looks stunning.. and no doubt will function perfectly for years.
They use them on the moon for the Apollo missions.(well similar model with stunning quality as well) thats why we can enjoy a really good quality pictures of those missions.
Gorgeous??? You are living in the past i think...please look a little better at what exists because your hasseblade who has been sleeping for a long time in front of what the Japanese are doing thanks to whom photography has evolved
Expansiv? Yes! Worth the money? Yes!! The best of the digital and analog world. I worked with a Mamyia 645 and a Yashica 124 MAT and still with the Yashica going out for a shoot is so relaxing and brings you down to earth😊
