On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 26, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>> >>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Certainly not marketable. Most photographers are conditioned to using >>>>> the >>>>> rectangle to shape their work. I shot 6x6 for many years. Never did >>>>> like it, >>>>> never will. Square is definitely a niche market. And yes, Hasselblad >>>>> and >>>>> other MF makers have been successful in that niche, but it's still a >>>>> niche. >>>> >>>> Hasn't even Hasselblad dropped square format? >>> >>> The company "Victor Hasselblad" doesn't exist anymore. Hasselblad today >>> is >>> just a brand, the cameras are built by Fuji. The classic Hasselblad 6x6 >>> film >>> cameras are all out of production, they disappeared when Hasselblad was >>> sold. >>> >>> Godfrey >>> >> >> That's incorrect in all regards. >> >> Hasselblad is the company not just the brand. The company has had >> various owners since Victor Hasselblad sold the company to an >> investment firm. Victor Hasselblad AB is currently privately held, >> with the majority stockholder being the Shriro Group (who also bought >> out Imacon, resulting in the Hassy/Imacon merger). The H-Series >> cameras were developed in partnership with Fuji and the H-series >> lenses are manufactured by Fuji, but the H series bodies are >> manufactured by Hasselblad. >> >> The V-Series 503CW body remains in low-rate production and can still >> be purchased new, with or without a CFi digital back. > > Not according to the industry sources I spoke to last month, but I didn't > pursue it as I have little interest in $60,000 cameras right now. > > I'm happy to be incorrect on this, if they're still around. Perhaps I should > have prefaced my comment with "I heard from an industry source ..." > > Godfrey >
The V-Series are one of the two inexpensive entries into MF digital right now (the CFi back being $10k, the body being the usual ~$3k) with the other one being the Mamiya 645 with Mamiya ZDb back. We are talking 'within a few grand of a D3x' here, not $60k. $60K is the pricerange for a H3D-II or PhaseOne 645 with their top-end 50MP backs and a bag full of lenses The info you were getting sounds a lot more like 'I heard it from a salesguy' than an 'industry source', considering that it's about as accurate as most 'Pentax/Leica is dead' type rumours. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
