plasticman Posted September 18, 2012 Share #21 Â Posted September 18, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) The term "fugly" comes to mind... Â The unedited version was what came to mind when I saw it. And I'd hoped for something like a digital XPan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 18, 2012 Posted September 18, 2012 Hi plasticman, Take a look here Hasselblad Lunar. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Paul J Posted September 18, 2012 Share #22 Â Posted September 18, 2012 It's no joke. But it should be, it's hideous. Â Coming from the original Blads, what was and still is the one of the most beautiful cameras made (and a design classic) Hasselblad has an awful lot to answer for. Leica receives flack for it's limited editions but thank god we don't get a red 'Ferrari Edition'. The H5D looks equally dopey. Stop trying to be different and just make a camera that is a simple design classic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaques Posted September 18, 2012 Share #23 Â Posted September 18, 2012 oh- it just gets worse- when you read the promotional material and those prototype pictures! A disgrace. Whatever design team got their hands on this has mangled the hasselblad brand. Everything looks rushed and full of BS- all to make it in time for Photokina- some crumby soundtrack cannot cover the serious flaws in the presentation it is amateurish and embarrassing.... I see a brand marketing disaster here of epic proportions. Â But the again look how big Justin Bieber is? Maybe this camera will be a huge market success. Â Can't believed I speculated earlier today if Leica would be watching this announcement carefully... they must be laughing their a...s off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 18, 2012 Share #24 Â Posted September 18, 2012 more like the Hasselblad Lunatic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gargamel Posted September 18, 2012 Share #25 Â Posted September 18, 2012 I prefer to ignore that, too painfull...Are they trying to kill photography? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted September 18, 2012 Share #26  Posted September 18, 2012 Amazing. Hasselblad has not only surpassed Leica's silliest commemorative designs, they've even surpassed the more outré Russian camera makeovers....  http://img3.etsystatic.com/000/0/5856231/il_fullxfull.306178239.jpg  A Leica Fake - Photo.net Leica and Rangefinders Forum _____  Edit: "Lunar," eh? Ya think Neil Armstrong would have taken one of those to the Moon?  http://fotoshutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/moon_hasselblad.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo.Battista Posted September 18, 2012 Share #27 Â Posted September 18, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) They are going to sell a lot of these to people who have an open mind. Loads of a-l-c type options too. Â I think that I have a different concept of "people who have an open mind". Â Sorry Andy for this comment, but really I can't understand this from a Company like Hasselblad. Leave it to Hermes or LV or Prada. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted September 19, 2012 Share #28 Â Posted September 19, 2012 I am so grateful that I had the honour to visit the Hasselblad factory in Gothenborg many years ago when the 203FE was about to be announced at Photokina the following week. The spirit of Victor still pervaded the building and I came away in absolute awe of how things worked there. It resulted in me acquiring the first Hasselblad 203FE to venture into the Southern Hemisphere! Â Thankfully, I still have the full kit with 8 lenses. It relishes film! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted September 19, 2012 Share #29 Â Posted September 19, 2012 One small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind. Â Haaselblad will be great again. This is only a start. :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TW528 Posted September 19, 2012 Share #30 Â Posted September 19, 2012 I sincerely hope people here realize that this is just a Sony NEX-7 ($1000) with a body designed by Hasselblad ($6500) and nothing more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamey Posted September 19, 2012 Share #31 Â Posted September 19, 2012 Well Gentlemen as I said in a previous post concerning the MF systems. Things are not that great, Leica and Hassleblad need sellers to continue to prop up their MF..Cameras. Â In Leica's case it's the M system. With Hassleblad well, they are hoping for the Lunar module to come to aid their MF starship. Â We are in for some interesting times. Â Ken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlatkob Posted September 19, 2012 Share #32 Â Posted September 19, 2012 It may be a fine camera, but the extreme emphasis on the materials of the handgrip is very odd. And the association with the 1957 model 500C is extremely, extremely tenuous. The non-resemblance is striking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted September 19, 2012 Share #33 Â Posted September 19, 2012 Guys, Â The keynote of Hassy's announcement is their alliance with Sony ... I guess the "lunar" is only an appetizer to the 18-course banquet yet to come. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted September 19, 2012 Share #34 Â Posted September 19, 2012 So what drink did you partake before the appetizer! It seems to be working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdai Posted September 19, 2012 Share #35 Â Posted September 19, 2012 No drink, but some smoke called double full frame size rangefinder? that made me high! LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 19, 2012 Share #36 Â Posted September 19, 2012 Hasselblad, as a company, lost me long ago. Â I was a devout 500 and 555 user for many, many years. I still have a full kit. Sadly and for some ridiculous reason they decided to drop the original design in favour of the hideous Fuji one. The camera got big, heavy, unbalanced and full of painful electrical 'quirks'. The Image quality while good was not to my liking in terms of lens rendering. I still own both V and H kits. I wish for dear life they continued to develop the V but alas another icon of photography has been lost to wiz-bangery. Â I never really get rid of gear but I actually want to rid my self of the H system. I've never liked it all. My V System I will never part with though. It really is possibly the best, or at least one of the best cameras ever made. Â The company has made so many bad decisions and have treated their long term users so badly. Closing the system and now reopening it once the horse has already bolted. Â Seriously, the company is run by monkeys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
honcho Posted September 19, 2012 Share #37 Â Posted September 19, 2012 Trying to remain optimistic about the 'blad/Sony alliance despite this odd marketing exercise. Â Interesting choices of materials, but I'm neither Russian, Chinese or Arab nouveau riche so I don't qualify for loony ownership. Â Thankfully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted September 19, 2012 Share #38  Posted September 19, 2012 The Lunar reminds me of a bedside teamaker ... I wonder if it does  dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share #39 Â Posted September 19, 2012 I didn't realise while at PK yesterday that this camera is a Nex-7 in drag. I had assumed that it was something that Hasselblad had developed themselves. Â Apologies if I have excited anyone unnecessarily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted September 19, 2012 Share #40 Â Posted September 19, 2012 I'm not sure that excited is the right word....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.