Well the biggest news of May is that I bought a Hasselblad 2000 camera. I just could not resist because the prize was so low and I knew that I would never find a camera like this at this prize ever again. It is perfect in every way only shows some signs of use at the bottom where the tripod is mounted but that's hardly anything. I read about this camera online for a few months some people say it ain't that good just because of the fragile shutter curtains but I also read that with the type I bought which is FC/M the curtains retract into the body when the film back is taken off so it is even harder to damage them. Also some said you should just take good care of it and not lent it to strangers then it will last very long.
I tested it one night with a Kodak Tri-X 400 and the results were just as good as I had hoped for, even better if anything. The focusing is quite easy and I just love that it has a grid view. I also got a Carl Zeiss 80mm f 2.8 lens with it which is not so different as a 50mm on a 35mm camera or a full frame on digital. I started looking for second hand digital backs for it on ebay but after a short search I decided to just use film for a while. I just love shooting film and even though at the moment I don't have a darkroom I just scan the film in tiff format so I can work with the photos as 114 megapixel raw files. They are only about 100 MB since its only black and white, I assume they would be much bigger if it was color.
For now I will try to blog an over view of each month not about every single photo since I know I just can't keep up with that. I want to blog more but I felt I had to write something for all the photos because that is what I started doing but I try to write more for every photo on the flickr instead. Some of them I don't write much description but then I just feel like I have been writing what I want to say on another photo as well and I don't want to repeat myself many times.
This is good enough for now just pleas visit my flickr for daily photo updates
