It looks liek you might want to pull your head out of your ass "vintage style" Hasselblad has been making bodies that look this way for as long as you have been alive ad are still considered to be the camera of choice if you want to shoot medium format. and the zycie optics are far and away cleaner and sharper then any other maker.
So maybe they are looking at a modern camera maker and copies there "classic" style.
It appears that I have hit a nerve. I wrote a response before but it wasn't added to the website, so I'll try again:
Sorry for having an opinion? I think it's sad how people will use electronic devices to express a certain fashion sense. I don't see anything wrong with having a gadget that looks aesthetically pleasing, but in this case they are feigning the style of an older film camera which was designed in a certain way in order to accomodate it's film type. Now they just copied the style and stuck digital components inside. Form over function. In other words, it's for someone who wants to shoot digital yet wants to appear to have a 120 film camera. There's no point other than appearance (and square digital photos?) that I can see. Or am I missing something here?
square digital photos, I know it must sound shocking to think that so many people out there still find medium format to be a great aspect to shoot. (mostly for it composition traits). So Go look learn....
There is a grand world of non automatic digital cameras out there for people how know how the meter themselves and dont want to give that artistic control to a computer that dosn't know anything but contrast.
Guh.. I have no problem with wanting to shoot in medium format. I also think it's a neat format to shoot in! I'm just annoyed by taking the look of medium format cameras and applying it to digital cameras for the sake of aesthetic. Does this camera really have to look like that in order to shoot square photos? I doubt it, and I believe much of the reason they kept that look is to appeal to people that think that style of camera looks cool. I have nothing against medium format, film, digital, or any specific format. What annoys me is taking the look or style of one thing and applying it to another. I think film has this sort of romantic do-it-yourself image that many people who are nostalgic about it cling to, and this camera is playing on those feelings by keeping the LOOK of the older cameras yet using digital components.
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I'm sorry but copying vintage style just for the aesthetic is lame.
Wow, what a downer- I thought that these things were cool, but now that someone said it was lame... I just don't know how to feel...
Actually, I think it is kind of cute, but then, I'd want to see it in person before I gave it a yea or nay.
I used to shoot with one of the real deal and they were a pretty awesome camera.
It looks liek you might want to pull your head out of your ass "vintage style" Hasselblad has been making bodies that look this way for as long as you have been alive ad are still considered to be the camera of choice if you want to shoot medium format. and the zycie optics are far and away cleaner and sharper then any other maker.
So maybe they are looking at a modern camera maker and copies there "classic" style.
It appears that I have hit a nerve. I wrote a response before but it wasn't added to the website, so I'll try again:
Sorry for having an opinion? I think it's sad how people will use electronic devices to express a certain fashion sense. I don't see anything wrong with having a gadget that looks aesthetically pleasing, but in this case they are feigning the style of an older film camera which was designed in a certain way in order to accomodate it's film type. Now they just copied the style and stuck digital components inside. Form over function. In other words, it's for someone who wants to shoot digital yet wants to appear to have a 120 film camera. There's no point other than appearance (and square digital photos?) that I can see. Or am I missing something here?
square digital photos, I know it must sound shocking to think that so many people out there still find medium format to be a great aspect to shoot. (mostly for it composition traits).
So Go look learn....
http://www.hasselbladusa.com/
There is a grand world of non automatic digital cameras out there for people how know how the meter themselves and dont want to give that artistic control to a computer that dosn't know anything but contrast.
Guh.. I have no problem with wanting to shoot in medium format. I also think it's a neat format to shoot in! I'm just annoyed by taking the look of medium format cameras and applying it to digital cameras for the sake of aesthetic. Does this camera really have to look like that in order to shoot square photos? I doubt it, and I believe much of the reason they kept that look is to appeal to people that think that style of camera looks cool. I have nothing against medium format, film, digital, or any specific format. What annoys me is taking the look or style of one thing and applying it to another. I think film has this sort of romantic do-it-yourself image that many people who are nostalgic about it cling to, and this camera is playing on those feelings by keeping the LOOK of the older cameras yet using digital components.
That I can understand : )