Bill, you obviously feel very passionate about this, so I will reply
with one
or two points and leave it at that.
Regarding reliability, I have personally heard many more accounts of
(V-system) cameras jamming up than RBs, and I have likewise heard a
couple
of amazing stories regarding RB toughness, including a personal
account from
the 1980s of a RB taken to alaska, which had more than once been
completely
submerged in water and subsequently frozen solid, thawed, and operated
fine
afterwards without problems. A Hasselblad is a much more svelte, and
potentially
fragile, camera than the "unrefined" and chunky RB. Have you ever seen
both
disassembled? The RB is much simpler and stronger internally. Less
"refined".
My RB is an extremely old copy (serial number under #100) produced in
1970,
it's never had a CLA, and it works perfectly.
The mirror slap in an RB is, in my opinion, a complete myth. I can
hand-hold my RB
to slower shutter speeds than any other camera I have personally
owned, for example
this night shot was taken at 1/8s and it's a quite high resolution
image:
http://www.deviantart.com/download/128842422/Recursion_of_misplaced_values_by_philosomatographer.jpg
I could never have made this shot with my "smooth" OM-1 at the same
shutter
speed / focal length equiv.
Suffer? Au contraire, the RB brings me only joy and incredibly high
quality
darkroom prints. And it was so cheap... For an investment of less than
$1000
I have a body, two back, six wonderful lenses including a fish-eye.
These lenses do not play games, they walk all over most OM lenses in
terms of final
image quality. Any improvement would be a moot point unless you are
making prints
a couple of meters wide, and I stop at 16x20in at this stage.
But, enjoy your Hasselblad, I will certainly continue to enjoy my RB.
The thing that
annoys me most, is that whenever I am walking around with my RB,
people come up to
me and ask "wow, is that a Hasselblad?"
:-)
On 02 Jun 2010, at 12:12 AM, Sue Pearce wrote:
> I think the RB67 oozes with impractical
>> character and satisfaction :-)
> Yes, the RB oozes with excess weight, excessive mirror slap, and
> generally
> poor ergonomics.
>
> A Hasselblad doesn't "do it" for me in
>> the
>> same way at all.
>>
> No, it just is easy to operate, reliable, and has superior optics,
> and can
> be easily hand held.
>
> I suppose you believe that suffering builds character?
>
> Bill pearce
>
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