Doomed?

[Antje]

I sure am doomed - I bought this Rolleicord last week, shot a few rolls of film, bought some lab equipment and developed my first B/W rolls, and this weekend I suddenly found myself searching Ebay for a Hasselblad with back and lens... What am I doing here? I own a Canon 20D with all the lenses I could wish for that sees several hundred to thousands actuations each month. I shoot mostly macro and wildlife, and now I'm hankering after a system that would lend itself more to landscape, portraits and such. I saw this nice 501 at a camera store and couldn't keep my eyes off the big viewfinder... It even smelled nice. And then this beautiful 6x6 format...

Could someone please talk me out of it? I almost long for the days when I was a student and Hasselblads so expensive that I couldn't even dream of them. Now I could just go and buy one. I should have my husband hide my credit card for me.

And all of this just because I wanted to give this neglected little Rolleicord a nice new home. What have I done!

Sorry for the rant - I simply needed to talk about my new love.

Antje

[arigram]

You are doomed allright. Pretty soon you'll be using the Canon as a bookend and not being able to look at digital stuff anymore.

[Magnus W]

Yup, doomed.

hassy-owner -- MW

[Steve Smith]

You have now set the pattern for the rest of your life. If you want to stop yourself making instant purchases, freeze your credit card inside a large block of ice. Next time you want to buy something you have the time it takes for the ice to freeze to think about your purchase!

Steve.

A fellow Rolleicord owner. (and a Bronica ETRS, two Olympus XAs, Nikon FG, Nikon F601, Flexaret, Zeiss Ikon, Canon QL, Homemade 5x4, modified Polaroids, etc... etc... !!)

[catem]

Ah - no going back

Enjoy.

best wishes,
Cate

[Antje]

Thanks for your understanding, guys... I really needed a shoulder to cry on. Now where is that next cameraholic meeting?

I do see a pattern here. My dad has approximately ten zillion cameras of all kinds (and about ten MF, LF, pinhole, digital and other cameras he uses regularly). I never thought I could actually buy a camera just because it looked at me twin-eyed from a shelf, which is basically the way my dad acquired his collection. Seems like I just never met the right one until this moment! Must be something in my genes, as well.

Thankfully, I've been a very poor student long enough to be forever reluctant to spend - I think the prudent step would be shooting the Rolleicord for a while until I find out if that's really what I want.

That, and staying away from Ebay and every camera store in town.

Antje

[juan]

Soon you'll need an 8x10.
juan

[Jerevan]

In the long run you may be doomed, but as you say, a good few films through the Rolleicord is a good way to start!

It's possible to do a lot with it. I've done portraits, landscape, details in landscape, architecture and just about everything except pure action stuff with my Rolleicords.

[jstraw]

Whatya want for that 20D?

[JBrunner]

Yes, there is a cure to what is happening. Just go LF and get it over with. And BTW welcome to APUG.