hasselrad rides again…

so, i set up this blog a few years ago now. back then i had a Hasselblad 501CM hence Hasselblad/Hasselrad.

i moved over to rangefinders (namely Leica’s) and traded, sold and bought my way through nearly all of their M series and screw mount bodies plus all of their pre-Asph lenses (minus the ellusively expensive Noctilux).

during that time, somewhere in the middle, i had a brief encounter with a lovely XPan / 45mm kit that i paid too much for (mint wouldn’t be accurate enough to describe it’s lovely condition). i really enjoyed the camera, but it was a lot of $$$ at the time – so when the opportunity came to sell it for what I paid I jumped on it (the immediately regretted it, as is always/mostly the case when selling cameras).

I recently took stock on my gear, where I was at and how I felt about what I was shooting (I also deleted all of my old posts on here, save some Rodinal push-dev info I kept up as a reminder to myself on dev times), and I was in a rut… feeling rather stagnate, shooting the same things over and over again with a very expensive camera and a lens I was so-so about and wishing I could afford lenses I could never afford (that’s the Leica way, for those short on scratch to spend on gear like me). Then an XPan came up, for a very good price… rather worn exterior, but none-the-less an XPan / 45mm kit I couldn’t pass up.

once again, my blog moniker is somewhat relevant, and I’m exploring the XPan and apnoramic format and it feels good… Leica be gone! (oh, I have a Pentax 6×7 kicking around too that I’m quiet fond of at the moment). so I think I’ll end up blogging some stuff again, mostly from the XPan – we’ll see how I go