Yes Sir, in retrospect, I should have taken the body and waited for my 35-100 lens. I had a discussion with my supplier today and we are both leaning on Hasselblad to get the body and lens shipped as soon as possible. I should have some idea about a ship date next week. My thinking was, as I mentioned, having the body and no lens for however long didn't make sense, but having the lens and no body doesn't either.
We don't know if Hasselblad underestimated the demand, or they are playing some kind of artificial demand situation. If Hasselblad was still the 100% Swedish company they were, I would say it's an underestimation, but DJI doesn't play either of those games so who knows. On the other hand, if Hasselblad was still muddling along without DJI's substantial financial infusion, I wouldn't be looking at the their product at all. I just need to be patient and keep watching Youtube tutorials. The five days that I had the loaner was just enough to whet my whistle, I'm ready to put it to work....Show more →
Thanks, Jim. I hear you. If there is one camera regret that I have, it is selling the Leica M4P that I bought second hand. I loved the fact that it was all manual and you had to get the settings right. Unfortunately, I had to sell that to get something else. When I looked again, they were going for 4 times what I paid for it and sold it for. Such is life, I guess...
I hope you get your setup soon and look forward to the results. I can only imagine what some of your recent real estate shots would look like coming from that combo.
Ahhh Gero, "hindsight", if only we had the same degree of foresight, oh well. The Hasselblad will be interesting as far as an architectural tool. My plan is to equip it with the newly designed 20-35E and the 35-100E. Those focal lengths should allow most of the types of photography that I have in mind for the camera. I have seen architectural work done with the Hasselblad and some of it is stunning, but I have questions about shooting with non-tilt/shift optics. I know a lot of perspective corrections can be done in post, but my experience tells me that many of the wide angle lenses not only introduce the usual parrallax distortion, but stretch objects in the frame as well. I just watched a review of the 20-35E, the author was emphatic about the lack of distortion and his architectural images bore that out, time will tell.
Shooting on a Hasselblad and reducing the file for social media strikes me as a crime against nature, but I guess it is an inevitable part of our industry now. A number of my clients regularly have me produce large display prints for their corporate walls and that's where the camera will distinguish itself, and hopefully the person who mashed the button......
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Ahhh Gero, "hindsight", if only we had the same degree of foresight, oh well. The Hasselblad will be interesting as far as an architectural tool. My plan is to equip it with the newly designed 20-35E and the 35-100E. Those focal lengths should allow most of the types of photography that I have in mind for the camera. I have seen architectural work done with the Hasselblad and some of it is stunning, but I have questions about shooting with non-tilt/shift optics. I know a lot of perspective corrections can be done in post, but my experience tells me that many of the wide angle lenses not only introduce the usual parrallax distortion, but stretch objects in the frame as well. I just watched a review of the 20-35E, the author was emphatic about the lack of distortion and his architectural images bore that out, time will tell.
Shooting on a Hasselblad and reducing the file for social media strikes me as a crime against nature, but I guess it is an inevitable part of our industry now. A number of my clients regularly have me produce large display prints for their corporate walls and that's where the camera will distinguish itself, and hopefully the person who mashed the button.........Show more →
Jim, you're going to need a bigger drone to carry your Hasselblad combos and your clients will need bigger iPads The beauty of high resolution with ridiculous dynamic range...
I was playing around last night and decided to start a thread on "Alternative Gear" that was more specific to Hasselblad, it's already got a little traction. We'll see where it goes as X2DII-100C cameras start to get delivered around the world.......... https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1922697/
That's a nice clean Holloman AFB F-4E Kevin. 1997 was their final year at Holloman. Many ended up as QF models (unmanned target) for F-22 training. Always love the F-4 photos.
Built in 1968 (MSN 4011), it initially served with the 20th FS at George AFB, California (pre-1992 base closure), then briefly with the 163rd Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS), Indiana Air National Guard (1986–1991). It returned to the 20th FS upon the unit's relocation to Holloman in June 1992. After 1997 the records indicate it was retired to the Bone Yard with no additional documentation for QF conversion.
KevinJacksonUK wrote:
A few oldies from the 1997 Golden Air Tattoo (USAF 50th anniversary airshow) at Nellis.
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Your F4 images send me right back to the sounds, sights, smells and tragedy of war mate!
Rippers fer sure!
Thanks for being a patriot! We DO have the same "Mother" you know!
Dan
Ray Swindle wrote:
That's a nice clean Holloman AFB F-4E Kevin. 1997 was their final year at Holloman. Many ended up as QF models (unmanned target) for F-22 training. Always love the F-4 photos.
Looks like Randy Ball and his Mig 17's are teaming up with the Collings foundation to bring something special for some 2026 airshows. The Collings foundation is going to fly their F-100 and F-4 with the Migs. I may have to make a trip to see this combo. I have never see n the F-100 fly and the last F-4 that I saw fly was as a Kid.
Interesting, the F100 was in pretty rough shape cosmetically when I shot it at WOH last year, but it flew......fast. That should be something to see. Are you around early next week Joe? I may be in McCalla for a day or so.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Interesting, the F100 was in pretty rough shape cosmetically when I shot it at WOH last year, but it flew......fast. That should be something to see. Are you around early next week Joe? I may be in McCalla for a day or so.
Yes Sir I will be around. I will shoot you a message with my cell number.
Finally got a chance to catch some late afternoon F-15 action at Seymour Johnson AFB in NC last week. Unfortunately the sky was cloudless. I normally don't embellish shots, but I had a cloud formation I had captured at sunset 2 days prior, so I did a little sky replacement. My apologies to any purists
A good friend and I went out to Ontario, CA recently, to chase trains in Cajon Pass. When were were flying back out of ONT to DFW, we noticed that the special Star Wars scheme with Alaska Airlines was set to depart before we had to check in. Here's one shot I got of it. Kinda neat that the mountains were behind it, almost giving it an actual Star Wars feel to it.
Hope everyone has had a great week and I wish you and all your families a very Happy Thanksgiving, next week.
