The best camera in the world?
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2024
- What is the best camera in the world? And is there such a thing even? The Hasselblad 500 series takes the cake, if you ask me ;).
I took a little roadtrip to Dubrovnik, to Neretva estuary and into a snowy mountain, to try and tell an interesting story about the Hassy 500.
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Why does this channel not have more subscribers? I love everything about it. Please keep going, Alexander!
Many thanks for your kind words Robert! 😃
I know right! I just subscribed 😊👍
You have to know this camera and love working with it, then everything will work out. Supporting that statement is this video. "TLR Lubitel 2 cameras, Lubitel 166U examples of black and white photos"
Thank you for publishing!
Well done Alexander, The hasselblad and Rollei tlr are two of my favorite legendary cameras. Remember it's hip to be square!! 🤣
We want more! The compositions were spot on.
I agree, great square images, greetings from New Zealand.
I have shot with a Hasselblad since 1977. It is without a doubt one of the best engineered, designed and built cameras ever. That said there is no perfect camera. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. As for the square well lets just say “It’s hip to be square”
Hasselblad.. now owned by a communist Chinese drone maker. A travesty.
I can’t agree more with you, my friend. Square is ….. but mechanic and feel is top notch! But what we discussed many times, we should have them all, and according to the mood that day, take it out and shoot!
Keeps getting better!
Awesomness, more swearing, bts and drooling over a camera you love :)
Isn’t that what it’s all about? 🥲
Another entertaining video, Alexander! Yes, yes the Hassey is great but it’s also become a status symbol like Leica. Not interested in such things nor the associated huge prices. I love my TLRs and Bronica S2A; they work for me and I’m ecstatic to use them...and save money, too. Keep up the great work and if you’re ever in NYC I’ll buy you dinner!
Thanks Paul!
Just found your videos today. Absolutely stunning: Great content and I love your style of presentation. As for the Hassi femhundred: I used to carry around a Mamiya RZ67 for a long while. Fantastic camera but a real pain in the a…rms. Simply too heavy for my old age. Eventually sold it and now I enjoy my Hasselblad 503CX - and yes, I do love square format. Cheers, Peter
Thanks for your thoughts Peter! :) Well, I owned a Mamiya RB67 which is I think even heavier so I completely understand your point hehe. Cheers to you as well!
Hey man! Great video. I don't know how you can be so comfortable to shoot that much in public. For me is hard to go outside alone with the tripod, set the camera, walk, shoot, take care of everything. Your talent on doing this is huge :) Thank you for your inspiration! (The sound that camera produce is so pleasing to listen to :D )
Hi Gabriel, thanks for your comment! 😃 I am SO sorry that I’ve lost the footage from the first time ever, I stopd in front of the camera. I remember, I was so inspired by FunForLouis that I decided to try vlogging. I filmed myself in our KITCHEN(!) with my smartphone and, oh boy… I was SO unbelieveably embarrased. But LOTS of practice, slow increments and trust m-its possible to do wonders!
@@alexander.starbuck Yeah! Practice is the key :) I also lost my first footage but I remember the vibe that I have... OMG I was so stressed out :)) Thank you!
love the quality of your channel
Thank you villegas! :)
Great video!
Looking forward to your new ones 👏🏻
A compact analog camera that you prefer these days would be a great video ✌🏻
Thanks TQA for the kind words! ;) I would do such video but I actually do not own any film cameras at all! I sold everything and am looking into purchasing either a Pentax 67 or getting into large format with a Stenopeika camera. Possibly a darkroom and wet printing my BW work, we'll see.
Great video 👍
What about the rollei sl66 with tilt shift function, close up function and a reverse mount of the lens for macro photography?
Great one my friend! (Nemoj slušati Rapu, bolje su ove nove fotke :D I dobro ti paše taj Square format odmah. je sve fine art!)
Thanks bro 🥲, supportive as ever!
Bravo Aco! Very cool review!
Thx man! 😉
For analog 6x6 Cameras I think the Hasselblad 200/2000 series is the best you can get, you can both use Lenses with large aperture without shutter in the Lens and you can use Lenses with shutter in the Lens, best of two worlds. I had the Hasselblad 500 C/M, but I did not like the vignetting in the top of the viewfinder when using Macro an tele Lenses, so I got the Hasselblad 2000 FC which I had special customized at the Hasselblad factory. I do not use analog cameras today, I do not like the polluting chemicals. I love digital photography.
My impression of the Hasselblad:
1. In the 80s of the last century I did an apprenticeship at a professional industry and portrait photographer. He almost exclusively used Hasselblad 500s - and during all the years I was there, always roughly a third of the cameras, lenses and accessories where away in repair shops. Since then, I stayed away from Hasselblad.
2. Recently, I tried it again, not with the "real" Hasselblad, but with the latest version of its Ukrainian Arax copy. What I then realized: one body, two backs, and two lenses are significantly heavier and more bulky than two Pentacon Six cameras with a lens on each. this is obviously true for Hasselblads as well. This I did not expect, since I also thought that one advantage of the Hasselblads is its size and form factor. I now have two Pentacons with a lens on each with me instead of the Arax/Hasselblad, when I want to use a 6x6 medium format SLR camera.
3. As you said, regardless if you shoot Hasselblad or any other classic medium format camera, you won't be able to see it from the photos which camera you used.
Share your pain over shooting in square format. Worked as a wedding photographer from 1985-95 using Mamiya c330's. All our output had to be rectangular! Red crayon lines on the focussing screen helped. Now using Bronica 645 although I think the Mamiya lenses are slightly better.
Great images ❤👍🏻 and best camera, so it is❗️
Thanks Ruud! 😃
Stvarno si postao stručljak, Laki! Keep up the good work! 👍
Hvala Lepi 😉
First of all, very nice video! But where do the bright spots come from in some of your photos, for example at 0:40?
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it :). Ahh, the spots, yes, I noticed these and was a bit disapointed when I got the film back from the lab. It can be either from my improper storage of the film before using it (it did suffer a bit from hot weather) OR from the lab mistreating it during development.
Great videos my man! Square format ain't easy but it's actually very interesting when shooting with wide angles (40/50mm) and tele (250), compositions are just going trough it effordlessly. Gotta admire the Planar though!
Thank you 😃, glad you like 'em! Yes, maybe the wide would solve it for me but I never tried the Hass 40, 50, 60 mm lenses so there's definitely room for another take on this format and another video ;).
@@alexander.starbuck Personally i'm kinda hating on 60mm and 150mm focal lengths but i have 50/80/250 every time i go out with my hassy. the only real con is the cost, they went nuts with prices lately, $250 for a film back!
Originally out of my price range! Finicky, needs services including magazine! Demon to load!
I used Mamiya C series twin lens, with various lenses. I used my gear rather than designated Hasselblad! The square not a big deal.
Frende get some people in those frames!
I know…. I should! 🥲
Kul video Alex :D ;) Har faktiskt aldrig använt Hassie, men ofta velat en och varit nära att köpa en. Jag har kört Rolleiflex länge och älskar den, och diggar faktiskt 6x6 :P
Härliga ställen du var på också, och snälla nu är det dags att slänga på lite Game of thrones och lägga kameran på hyllan några timmar...den är värd att se hehe.
/Martin.
Thanks for lovely words, Martin! 😁 Which Rolleiflex have you got, a TLR or…? If you can, definitely do get a Hassie, they are just amazing machines! As far as Game of thrones goes, I think I’d mich rather wander a bit around Sweden 😍. It seems like an incredibly beautiful country!
@@alexander.starbuck hehe you welcome :D I have the Rolleiflex 75T and yes a Tlr, its one of the "ordinary " f3,5 ones but with a tessar lens i really like, and its smaller than the f2,8s too which makes me bring it more often then not :)
I most likely will at some point. I just the other day went on a photowalk with 4 or 5 people bringing theirs so i got to hold it and feel it as well as other times i have met them. And they feel great :) And take such nice images too.
Hehe yeh well, its pretty special if you like the moodswings of the weather here :P But we had some very nice winter days now and summers and spring are awesome of course :)
/regards Martin.
our photographic mind, only last for a few seconds though..
Nuo neliösi eivät ole ollenkaan huonoja!
Tak su mycket, Uradjimiru! 🥲
…….Is the one that’s with you.”
I’m with you on that one JT 😉. But in the end, we do prefer some tools over the others and those are the ones that end up being “with us”. Cheers!
I knew the big H was coming before you said it.
On my case I got 2 Hassies, one being a C and another a CM. This because when eventually one "decides" to block, I got a spare one just in case.... By the way, when they block, its really annoying ! and only expert hands can "unblock the beast", but to me this means wasting too many hours to and from the camera mechanic.....
Being a Bronica Zenza, Mamiya C, Rolleiflex and Hasselblad 500 shooter, I got to admit that the 500 is slightly above the rest.... And you are complaining about the square format? Well then let me inform you that the digital back that were/are made for the Hasselblad 500 are.....are......are.... 6 x 4,5 !!! So get a Digital back and use that Hasselblad 500 of yours...
Thanks for the comment Paulo! This is not mine, I borrowed it for this video 😉. If I owned one, I’d probably get the CFV 50 back for it even though that messes up the focal lengths (i.e. frame sizes)
@@alexander.starbuck There's a "small hack" you can do with a Hasselblad and not with the rest, that once upon knowing it, you'll never get back... This only works with the old backs that have the cone window to the film back, where you can see its numbers on the paper. So the "hack" is like this: Insert a new film, start winding it, There will come to a part that you will see an arrow (that the beginning of the filme), go over the arrow and then either 3 or 4 dots before number "1". so it should be something like this: -> . . . . 1 . . . . 2 . . . . 3 So all you need to do is stop on the second dot and start it from there, meaning BEFORE reaching number "1"... This will grant you 13 clear shots instead of just 12. In the end, when the camera shows "12", open the film window and it should be directly over the "11". So all you need to do is this, after taking the 12 shot, insert the darkslide, remove the back, manually engage the shutter, insert the back, remove the darkslide and manually advance from number "11" to number "12" by rotating the knob on the back itself.
nekad, kad nisi znao sto radis, si radio bolje fotke :D
Pokvarile me godine
Alexander! Please, for the love of God and all things decent! Install a neck strap on that very expensive machine and use it! I cringe when I see you do things at 1:44 ~ 4:18 ~ 6:28.
Mamiya 7II for street photography. Mamiyz RZII for studio Linhof Master 4x5 for 4x5