Bought a Hasselblad today...

Messiah Khan · 20 Jun 2009 at 00:10

Today I bought a Hasselblad H3DII 31MP

Also bought;

1x Hasselblad 80mm lens
1x Hasselblad 120mm lens

4x Canon 5Dmk2
4x Canon 28mm f2.8
4x Canon 50mm f1.8
4x Canon 100mm f2
1x Canon 70-200mm f4
1x Sigma 150mm f2.8 Macro

2x Walker Titan SF
2x Schneider 150mm f5.6

1x Hasselblad 80mm lens
1x Hasselblad 120mm lens

1x 17" Mac Book Pro
1x Mac Pro with 3xGPU, 1xRME soundcard

1X Epson 3800

... Shame its all for work, and not for my own collection. I'll still hopefully get to use some of it at some point.

syke · 20 Jun 2009 at 00:13

I'd say its a shame it's not yours...but i definitely wouldn't like to see that exit my bank! Bet that cost a whack!

MikeHunt79 · 20 Jun 2009 at 00:25

I had to google it, "Call for price" means it's gonna be expensive... :eek:

What res would 31MP give? I'm not sure if I could even load that into PS!

peterattheboro · 20 Jun 2009 at 09:54

Should be touching nearly £20,000 there? :eek:

Derek W · 20 Jun 2009 at 10:11

I hope you'll post a picture of all the boxes when they arrive

Messiah Khan · 20 Jun 2009 at 10:21

syke said:
I'd say its a shame it's not yours...but i definitely wouldn't like to see that exit my bank! Bet that cost a whack!

Yeah, don't think my bank manager would approve of that list, lol.

MikeHunt79 said:
I had to google it, "Call for price" means it's gonna be expensive...

What res would 31MP give? I'm not sure if I could even load that into PS!

Hehe, yup the digital blad aint cheap, but it works out a lot cheaper than some of the other options. As for the resolution, I think it works out at about 5600px X 5600px. Might sound a lot, but it can still be beaten by a scanned 5x4 negative. Will make for some nice 44" prints though.

peterattheboro said:
Should be touching nearly £20,000 there?

It came in at close to £30k for all of it.

Derek W said:
I hope you'll post a picture of all the boxes when they arrive

I sure will try to

famas · 20 Jun 2009 at 11:48

i know someone that could have saved you 15k

lol.

nice purchase, out of intrest why all Canon when you shoot with nikon? could you not persuade the ones above the convert to the darkside?

Messiah Khan · 22 Jun 2009 at 17:54

famas said:
nice purchase, out of intrest why all Canon when you shoot with nikon? could you not persuade the ones above the convert to the darkside?

Unfortunately my personal choice in Photography Kit can't play a role in the decision here. We already have a load of Canon kit so we may as well keep going down that route. Also most of the students tend to have Canon cameras, so they are used to them. And anyway, even if we did go Nikon, I doubt I could convince them to get a 600mm f4, lol.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 22 Jun 2009 at 18:04

my eyes extended bigger than anything they have ever seen after reading H3DII 31
At that point I thought it was yours until this followed
1x Hasselblad 80mm lens
1x Hasselblad 120mm lens

4x Canon 5Dmk2
4x Canon 28mm f2.8
4x Canon 50mm f1.8
4x Canon 100mm f2
1x Canon 70-200mm f4
1x Sigma 150mm f2.8 Macro

2x Walker Titan SF
2x Schneider 150mm f5.6

1x Hasselblad 80mm lens
1x Hasselblad 120mm lens

1x 17" Mac Book Pro
1x Mac Pro with 3xGPU, 1xRME soundcard

1X Epson 3800

Good to get some play out of that. I would love only a quarter of that to play with.

MikeHunt79 · 22 Jun 2009 at 18:10

Just noticed the \RME soundcard... Do you use Logic Studio or Garageband also?

Messiah Khan · 22 Jun 2009 at 18:19

MikeHunt79 said:
Just noticed the \RME soundcard... Do you use Logic Studio or Garageband also?

Pro Tools. But the RME soundcard is for computerising the playback of sound cues in the theatre. The soundcard is a RME HDSPe RayDAT which im hooking up to the Yamaha LS9 desk via ADAT. This will allow me to have up to 36 Channels in and 36 Channels out of the computer. Will make life so much easier than having to use CDs and Minidisk for sound cues.

MikeHunt79 · 22 Jun 2009 at 18:50

36 channels, that should be more than enough. Pro-tools is the only DAW I have not tried yet, I might give it a whirl despite doing most music stuff in Logic now. I guess ADAT is a nice way of doing it as the signal stays digital.

I recently picked up a 24 channel in and 8 channel out XLR multicore snake, and it's massive, around 2" diameter and rather heavy also! I guess this isn't very camera related tho...