My name is Ulrich, I'm a 59 years old photographic veteran (amateur), who, thinking of retiring within the next 4 years, is looking forward to refreshing his photographic skills. I live in Germany.
I started photography in the late seventies, mostly 35mm tranparencies, but then I changed to b&w which I processed in my darkroom. Trying to improve quality, medium format came into play, and due to this Hasselblad. In the early eighties, I got a 2000FC with some C lenses and a SWC/M. The latter became my favorite camera, that's why I choosed that name. During the eighties, I did a lot of b&w photography and prints, some cibachrome prints from 6x6 transparencies, too.
I that time, photography as art played an increasing role in Europe, the work of Ansel Adams became popular, and consequently I changed to a 4x5" camera, which was the maximum format affordable to me.
By the end of the eighties, I was infected by a new virus: You may call it "computeritis". I did a lot of programming in visual basic , especially for my job, and photography was pushed back by the PC into the background.
I reduced photography to vacation - and family shots.
Last year we renovated our home from scratch, and during the clean-up I came across the two Hassis, so I noticed that I missed something during the last years. Why not combining photography and computer skills and doing it digitally?
Up to now I'm still in a learning process about digital photography. I wonder if I should use still films and buy a good filmscanner (as the nikon 9ooo) or buy a digital back for my Hassis. In any case I would prefer to do my prints with an inkjet printer and not in the darkroom (my wife would appriciate this, too, as I wouldn't disappear so often into the darkness of my cellar), as I think that the quality of the outcome can be controlled very well. Beside this I would like to do larger prints than I could do in my darkroom; I think the the Ansel Adams times of 13x18" or 24x30" contact prints are gone (even if I'm eager to add one of his prints to my photo collection, I'm still admiring his skills and learned very much from his books).
During the last days, I learned a lot from your discussions, esp. about the cfv back. Thank you for that !
I started photography in the late seventies, mostly 35mm tranparencies, but then I changed to b&w which I processed in my darkroom. Trying to improve quality, medium format came into play, and due to this Hasselblad. In the early eighties, I got a 2000FC with some C lenses and a SWC/M. The latter became my favorite camera, that's why I choosed that name. During the eighties, I did a lot of b&w photography and prints, some cibachrome prints from 6x6 transparencies, too.
I that time, photography as art played an increasing role in Europe, the work of Ansel Adams became popular, and consequently I changed to a 4x5" camera, which was the maximum format affordable to me.
By the end of the eighties, I was infected by a new virus: You may call it "computeritis". I did a lot of programming in visual basic , especially for my job, and photography was pushed back by the PC into the background.
I reduced photography to vacation - and family shots.
Last year we renovated our home from scratch, and during the clean-up I came across the two Hassis, so I noticed that I missed something during the last years. Why not combining photography and computer skills and doing it digitally?
Up to now I'm still in a learning process about digital photography. I wonder if I should use still films and buy a good filmscanner (as the nikon 9ooo) or buy a digital back for my Hassis. In any case I would prefer to do my prints with an inkjet printer and not in the darkroom (my wife would appriciate this, too, as I wouldn't disappear so often into the darkness of my cellar), as I think that the quality of the outcome can be controlled very well. Beside this I would like to do larger prints than I could do in my darkroom; I think the the Ansel Adams times of 13x18" or 24x30" contact prints are gone (even if I'm eager to add one of his prints to my photo collection, I'm still admiring his skills and learned very much from his books).
During the last days, I learned a lot from your discussions, esp. about the cfv back. Thank you for that !
