Recent content by madabouthass

This is with regards to the Lunar issue . At first I was dead against it . How could my beloved Hasselblad who have always made great cameras come out with just the skin for Lunar ! Slowly , after talking to alot of industry watchers I began to see the greater picture . Hasselblad had to...

For the servicing of old cameras/lens , no two repair / servicing job can be the same . Availability of Parts and Calibration equipment are the other issues . In the history of Hasselblad in Singapore , only 3 have been trained. Phillip Tay - now runs a repair shop in Geylang . Ah Sim...

Instead of a lightstand , an autopole is much more secure and takes up less space . Especially in low ceiling areas . Just some good clamps and you can attach even a boom arm it .

Lines / mm are measurements used by the lenses manufacturers to to check resolution . test charts having tiny lines are counted in one mm of a test image . Some people might feel that , we might as well get a cheaper 12 million pixel camera if we cant achieve 30 million pixels . Though...

135 mm lenses optimise to fall on a 24x 36 mm format ( 24x36 = 864 sq mm ) The larger medium format lenses calculate to fall on 64.5x 60mm format ( 64.5x 60 = 3870 sq mm ) Difference between formats , 3870 divide by 864 = 4.479 factor. And , if we accept 12 million is max for 135 format ...

Let me try to answer this . In 135mm format , the normal lenses resolve only around 12 million pixels . They will require higher qualility lenses Like Zeiss , around 100 lines /mm , for the 16 to 24 million pixel devices . This quality probably can only be achieved perhaps one perfect one...

BTW , selling my H4D50 body to upgrade to th H5D 60 when it comes . Mint condition , only a few shutter count - $ 25 k nett. Left it with Boonz at Shriro . Still with 3 months Shriro warranty . Can also let go 80mm at $ 1500.

Shriro tells me there can be 39 different combis for the Lunar. This is cool . I'll get the gold top with the wooden grip and the white top with the electric blue grip! And a few other grips for colour coordinates - nice . Cant wait .

We have not had a Hasselblad Master since Tay Kay Chin in the last millenium ! Wake up . Time to stand up for Singapore ! Many catagories (12 to choose from )this time :- Get those Masters Entries in! Photographers who want their images to be considered for the prestigious 2014...

At the Hasselblad Booth during Professional Photo Imaging 2012 at Funan DigitalLife mall .

The Hasselblad Ferrari at the local Ferrari showroom . The guests having a shooting good time . " Like my Ferrari ? "

Could this be Hasselblads New Camera at the coming Photokina 2012 ? Is this a stolen picture of the Prototype at a recent Photo Show ? Will we see this at next months Professional Photo Imaging 2012 show at Funan between 12th to 15th July ?

Actually there no changes for the 2 top sellers - H4D31 kit and the H4D40 kit . Unless one buys the H4D31 kit with the 35-90 zoom ( 15,560 euros ) now is $ 11,995 euros or about $ s$ 19,550 ! before 7%gst . The H4D 50 body is 3000 euros less . And the H4D60 is 6,200 euros ! But these are...

The Truly versatile Hasselblad H system Lenses can now be used by the Leica S2 ! Leica dramatically expands S system with Hasselblad lens adapter - British Journal of Photography

New: Linhof Quickfix I Tripod Connector now comes with Spirit Level . One of the best Quick attach shoes now comes in improved version . Saw them at Fotografix Wongs' .