![]() ![]() If you have ever taken a photo of the moon or a solar eclipse with an iPhone, you’ll notice that both the sun and moon have been moved further away by god. (He hates smartphones). Here’s what I learnt about choosing an affordable digital body along the way… Let’s just say it’s a good job I enjoy the 80mm focal length on medium format, which is roughly equivalent to 56mm on my full frame camera, with it’s silly small crop sensor. Nevertheless, like a crocodile waiting patiently in a lake popular with tourists, I’ve been waiting for the right moment to spring onshore to snap up the small child of a wealthy portrait photographer. After scoring a bargain Hasselblad H3D-39II kindly pointed out on my very own forum, I then scoured eBay for the choice of 2 lenses I could afford, before settling on one lens after seeing the price of the second. See the word “cheap” in my clickbait PetaPixel inspired headline? Cheap compared to what? A toaster? Not quite. What’s the closest we can get to a competitive digital 645 format in 2017 for under $3000? Like that fateful skeleton, I’ve planned for a while to start doing photos properly, and not with the small crop sensor of a full frame camera. His Mac is still working though, loading Sigma Photo Pro. He’s still there now, but his heart no longer beats, his airless lungs no longer breathe and his skeleton has a very unergonomic posture at the desk. “Was it really worth it?” he began to wonder, to sell his dear wife and children into slavery for a slow and dusty camera the size of a brick?Ībsolutely, thought the man, as he polished the sensor in his Hasselblad digital back for the 10,000th time. He never regretted spending the money on a Hasselblad, but one night he decided to take it to pieces… there was a spec of dust in the viewfinder. He liked photography so much, he sold his family to a North Korean slave farm. Did you hear of the man who tried to clean every last spec of dust from his Hasselblad?īut he has a cautionary tale from beyond the grave…
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