[rollei_list] Re: Any Hassy to Rollei 6000 series converts?
- From: Bob Shell <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:06:49 -0500
On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Jim Brick wrote:
This is not true.
They are simple to load and require no special skill. I have taught
many a Hasselblad Workshop and in each workshop have a dozen or
more Hasselblad neophytes, that is, folks who have never used a
Hasselblad. They always learn how to load a Hasselblad film back
within a few minutes and then never have a problem throughout the
workshop.
Jim, you're not exactly unbiased when it comes to Hasselblad. Sure
people can learn to load Hasselblad magazines, and they even used to
hold Hasselblad loading speed contests at Photo Plus in NYC, but once
you load a Rollei 6000 magazine, particularly the late model rotating
645 magazine, you realize instantly that this is how a medium format
camera should load. I never understood why Hasselblad refused to
modernize the film magazine with an insert that went in from the back
rather than the side and could be put in either way around. If you
check out a late model Kiev 88 magazine, you will see what Hasselblad
should have done in the 70s, and Rollei showed how it should have
been done in the 80s.
The main thing people have trouble with is putting the edge of the
film under that metal piece that pulls it out of the way so you can
slide the insert into the magazine. With the late Kiev and Rollei
designs you just don't have to fiddle with that. Great improvement.
Bob
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