Oh they have long forgotten that case of Hasselblads that went into the lake................. This goes back to the MA2A motto...."Do you want the shot.............or not?!" State Farm has enjoyed five decades of substantial premiums, every once in a while the deal goes the other direction...........
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Oh they have long forgotten that case of Hasselblads that went into the lake................. (deleted)
Wait, you killed a case of Hasselblads also?
I was thinking of the single camera that you dropped off the back deck of a property into a lake/pond a few years back. I don't recall ever hearing the Blad story. Care to reminisce?
kwbarnes wrote:
Wait, you killed a case of Hasselblads also?
I was thinking of the single camera that you dropped off the back deck of a property into a lake/pond a few years back. I don't recall ever hearing the Blad story. Care to reminisce?
Oh yes, the D810/24TSE that bounced into the pond.............well they are still in the black I'd say................
Just got home from an all day pool shoot, my thermometer hit 106 mid-afternoon with a THI of 115 in the shade, sporting! I think I'm going to start wearing a swim suit to these assignments!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Oh yes, the D810/24TSE that bounced into the pond.............well they are still in the black I'd say................
Years ago I was commissioned to shoot a sailboat regatta for a club on Lake Ray Hubbard. The Regatta was a three day event and the organizers arranged for a deck boat and crew to get me where I needed to be. Apparently the week before we had some Texas sized thunderstorms and the boat got pretty full of water so they took the drain plug out of the stern to make sure it dried out. The first morning we raced all over the lake shooting sunrise racing images, then we broke for lunch at the boat club. When we came out from lunch and went to the dock there were four tie down ropes going down to a mostly submerged boat. The two cases of Hasselblad's were "safely" tucked away under a bench seat in the rear of the boat. Seems that, as long as one is moving forward at a good clip the missing plug wasn't a factor, but the minute you stop the water goes the other direction.
There was an upside (not for the insurance company) to this event. My Blad Rep at the time was a great guy, very proactive, He called Hasselblad and told them the story. I had architectural assignments lined up for the next two weeks and had no medium format gear to do it with. I was relying heavily on my Hasselblad Super-Wide for architectural work at the time because I had not started shooting 4x5 yet. Professor Ernst Wildi was the head honcho at Hasselblad and a name recognized throughout the medium format photography world. Professor Wildi heard of my plight and immediately Fed Exed his personal Super Wide to me until Hasselblad could deal with a back order situation and replace all my gear. Ernst and I built a friendship from that event on and Hassleblad began taking an interest in my architectural and aviation work. That was back when Hasselblad was "Hasselblad", they are a very different company today, so different that I can't even get them to answer a simple inquiry about current equipment. No longer is Hasselblad a Swedish company obsessed with quality and their history, they are just another company bought out by some venture capital group and now owned by the Chinese. Unfortunate, I'd probably still be shooting Blads in one form or another if they had bothered to return my phone call.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Just got home from an all day pool shoot, my thermometer hit 106 mid-afternoon with a THI of 115 in the shade, sporting! I think I'm going to start wearing a swim suit to these assignments!
Uh oh Jim!!! Better run that "speedo" by Shelia 1st!!!!!!!
RD
This goes back to the MA2A motto...."Do you want the shot.............or not?!" State Farm has enjoyed five decades of substantial premiums, every once in a while the deal goes the other direction...........
