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View Poll Results: Ever been asked "Is that a Hasselbad?"
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No.
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Yes, while shooting 35mm or smaller.
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Yes, while shooting Medium Format
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Yes, while shooting Large Format
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Yes, and it was a Hasselblad!
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As a parallel, I used to drive a 1954 R-type Bentley which belonged to a friend. I f I had a dollar for every time I was asked if it was a Packard, I'd have been able to put a down payment on the thing. It was RHD, btw.
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 Originally Posted by David Brown
I never had a wedding customer ask about the camera when I was showing them my sample albums. I would tend to agree with you. But then, maybe I was lucky. As I get older, I never cease to be amazed at the stupidity of some humans!
(For the record, it was Mamiya TLR ...)
Former-wedding-photographer David Brown
there is alimit to itelligence, but there is bo limit to stupidity
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I guess having someone saying ITAH in that situation is better than someone saying "Is that a Minox?" :-)
Originally Posted by RalphLambrecht
nxt time, you pull down your pants and she says it ah?,you are in troubl  e
Nikon 35mm, Mamiya 645 & RB67, Leica IIIb, other bits and pieces
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For the first time ever I had this happen to me recently.
Except that when the questioner got closer, he said "oh now I see, it is a Mamiya".
It was an RB67, on a monopod.
Matt
“Photography is a complex and fluid medium, and its many factors are not applied in simple sequence. Rather, the process may be likened to the art of the juggler in keeping many balls in the air at one time!”
Ansel Adams, from the introduction to The Negative - The New Ansel Adams Photography Series / Book 2
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Originally Posted by RalphLambrecht
there is alimit to itelligence, but there is bo limit to stupidity
Albert Einstein: "There are only two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. I am not so sure of the former."
Warning!! Handling a Hasselblad can be harmful to your financial well being!
Nothing beats a great piece of glass!
I leave the digital work for the urologists and proctologists.
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Originally Posted by JohnMeadows
I guess having someone saying ITAH in that situation is better than someone saying "Is that a Minox?" :-)
Well it´s manual and it works without batteries and everytime! 
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Originally Posted by FiatluX
Well it´s manual and it works without batteries and everytime!
Yeah, that is just something many film users must deal with. Imagine a camera that works in cold weather, who woulda thought?
Warning!! Handling a Hasselblad can be harmful to your financial well being!
Nothing beats a great piece of glass!
I leave the digital work for the urologists and proctologists.
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Originally Posted by Sirius Glass
Yeah, that is just something many film users must deal with. Imagine a camera that works in cold weather, who woulda thought?
Last winter, I was out in about -5f weather with a Nikkormat. The camera took it in stride, but my cellphone stopped working. So much for enhanced 911
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Oddly, today I was out with my "new" RB67, and someone asked me if it was a Voigtlander. Which I thought was a little odd. How would someone even know the name Voigtlander and think an RB was one?
Though I think the best was one time walking with my Koni-Omega and someone says "That's crazy! What the hell is that!"
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No ITAH for me. Did get asked, "What is that noise?", with my Mamiya 645 Super. Have been asked if I still shoot film, as I was inserting a new roll. "Nah, I am just changing the batteries". A Hassy is on my future shopping list. I've never held one, much less shot one. Which is why I want one, even if my images are not one iota better with one.
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