civilized ku # 381 ~ damn it
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 10:45AM 
GaleriePangee ~ Montreal, CA • click to embiggenWhile walking the streets of Montreal's Old City, most notably Rue St. Paul est, we came upon a gallery that had never attracted our attention in past strolls through the area. What caught my attention on this occasion was an exhibit of BW pictures which, upon seeing them through the gallery window, just screamed, loud and clear, "Exquisite BW Hasselblad Pictures!"
So, in we went, and sure enough, the gallery walls were hung with a couple dozen Exquisite BW Hasselblad Pictures. The exhibit pictures were from of Valérie Jodoin Keaton's Backstage body of work and the inkjet prints were supremely, exquisitely, and delightfully drop-dead gorgeous.
Now, I'll admit that I was not familiar with any of the pictured musicians - neither my cup o' tea or my "generation" - but the net effect of the exhibit was to instill in me a consummate desire to dump all of my digital stuff, get me a Hassey with 40mm and 50mm lenses, buy me some color negative film, then buy me a high-end (IMACON?) scanner, and then ... start making me some of them-there exquisite Hasselbald pictures.
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buy me some color negative film but them there Hassy shots are all B&W...;-)
Two comments:
1) Why not "exquisite BW pictures" or even just "exquisite pictures?" Would those pictures have been less worthy if they were not made using Hasselblad gear?
2) In a recent post, you had stated that your new digital camera was so good that you really didn't see a need for other (supposedly bigger or better) cameras/formats, except of course for some very specialized needs. And that comparison was made against most film formats and DSLRs. So, why do you want to go back to a Hassy system, color negative film and scanners? Seems contradictory to your earlier position, no?
Hey!
I would say that it is more a question about the medium format look, than necessarily lens producer-look. The size of the medium and the film chosen, often (in my experience) does more to mark the end result, than the lenses we put infront of the light-tight box.