A Hasselblad is, as I was told when I first held him, many photographer's dream camera. This I've known for 20 years, and there is a certain magic to the way he sits so comfortably in the hand, the way his leaf shutter thunks, a serious sound that still makes me feel slightly unworthy of owning such a beautiful thing. The learning curves - for there are quite a few - are much harder to navigate than, at first, imagined. I shot almost an entire roll of Velvia slide film with wrong speed dialled into my lightmeter recently, rushing ahead of myself as I am, so often, wont to do.
Patience is a skill, one I'm trying very hard to master. Slowly, slowly.
You can do it!
Posted by: Lucy | October 07, 2010 at 09:56 PM
i am about to take the plunge with mine, after saving my extra pennies for months and months. it is a different thing, very different indeed, to go back to a reality of delayed gratification, scrupulous note-taking, and trying to get the intuitive feel of exposing film through an enormously intelligent device...that is, after a decade of blithely snapping away with digital, which makes one forget all this in an odd way. and all that money for film and processing, and it's such a crap-shoot so often, although i never remember it feeling like QUITE such a crap-shoot all those years ago.
i think your work with blad is stunning, even if you are being patient with remembering all it requires.
Posted by: Ali | October 11, 2010 at 04:05 AM
LOVE this photo Lucinda!
Posted by: claire | October 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM