Novice to medium format needs some info

[zdenek]

Simon P Galbally (Simonpg) wrote on July 04:

' 2007 - 9:27 am,Have you seen that now Erwin Puts has all his lens reviews available on-line as downloads?! '

I know about pdf form of his Lens book but not about reviews. Are they on the same www page? Could give the link?

Zdenek

 

[qnu]

Simon,

6th edition: cheap paper, greyish/no depth to blacks in prints of photographs.

 

[marc_peeters]

Hello, the difference between the 5th and the 6th edition, the 5th edition is 375 pages all of the V system and the 6th edition is 360 pages whith inside about 1OO pages of the V-system and the rest of the H-system.
So if you want a 501 or 303, you need the 5th edition.
I suppose you will find the 5th edition only on the second hand market.
A new 6th edition will cost you around 80 euro's and a second hand 5th edition will cost you......more than 100 euro -second hand-.
And if you have some more money I can tell you that the "System Compendium by Richard Nordin" gives you all the information about types, numbers fabrication dates (lenses, body's, backs etc.) from the beginning of the V-system. This one costs you "new" about 45 euro's

Bye
Marc

 

[qnu]

And now we've firmly landed on the subject of books:
Hasselblad related books.

Wildi - the Fifth, by the way, is not entirely devoted to the V-System. It contains a section on the X-Pan too.

My personal favourite among the Wildis is the third.

 

[gjames52]

A new 6th edition will cost you around 80 euro's and a second hand 5th edition will cost you......more than 100 euro -second hand-. >

The 6th is $49.95 USD at B & H and I recently saw a new copy of the 5th for $39.00 USD.

Good shopping

Gilbert

 

[wbulte]

You want a seperate forum 'chapter' dedicated to books? Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[gjames52]

The thread is "Novice to medium format needs some info"

Are books "info"?

Regards:

Gilbert

 

[qnu]

If books aren't full of info, i don't know what.
And they contain more info than we can ever cover here, so not inappropriate, i think.

But a separate Forum? Why not read the books?

 

[najobskalf]

They used to be - but soon to be replaced by digital forms.

 

[kommini]

>Hi Simon,

Oh, by the 'get up' of the book, i meant the physical binding and quality of the paper/binding etc. Of course, what I say is only hearsay. I have a fifth edition myself, and i have not seen the 6th edition yet.

Cheers Krish

 

[zdenek]

All is to be done in measure.

"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." (Ecclesiastes 12:12, KJV)

Zdenek

 

[agripix]

G'Day Zdenek:

I think the text is "... be admonished: of making many THREADS there is no end; and..."

Cheers,

Colin