Some of you might have known this for ages but I just found out that the new Hasselblad digital cameras are built almost entirely in Japan by Fuji and they use Fuji lenses as Zeiss in Germany were not willing to make the lenses to the new specs. I was amazed.... herschel >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner- >>photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet >>Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:21 PM >>To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students >>Subject: Re: Photographers Still Using Film >> >>Don Feinberg wrote: >> >>> That's why I intend to be shooting film for the foreseeable future. >>> >>> >> >>Those are good reasons (I read them as "I know how to get the results I >>like", "It doesn't generate enough income to justify expensive new >>equipment", "I like doing it this way"; not that that's complete). >> >>I've been developing software professionally since 1969; the first few >>months of that first part-time job paid for my first SLR, and, arguably, >>the programming work has barely been keeping up with the photo bills >>ever since :-). But I've found that digital printing, and then digital >>capture, have massively revitalized my interest in photography. Then >>again, I've always loved computers, I play around with them when I'm not >>working with them. This also means that the home computer costs don't >>mostly get charged against "photography"; except a few printers and some >>of the storage. >> >>-- >>David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ >>Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ >>Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ >>Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
