On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>> Certainly not marketable. Most photographers are conditioned to using the >>> rectangle to shape their work. I shot 6x6 for many years. Never did like it, >>> never will. Square is definitely a niche market. And yes, Hasselblad and >>> other MF makers have been successful in that niche, but it's still a niche. >> >> Hasn't even Hasselblad dropped square format? > > The company "Victor Hasselblad" doesn't exist anymore. Hasselblad today is > just a brand, the cameras are built by Fuji. The classic Hasselblad 6x6 film > cameras are all out of production, they disappeared when Hasselblad was > sold. > > Godfrey >
That's incorrect in all regards. Hasselblad is the company not just the brand. The company has had various owners since Victor Hasselblad sold the company to an investment firm. Victor Hasselblad AB is currently privately held, with the majority stockholder being the Shriro Group (who also bought out Imacon, resulting in the Hassy/Imacon merger). The H-Series cameras were developed in partnership with Fuji and the H-series lenses are manufactured by Fuji, but the H series bodies are manufactured by Hasselblad. The V-Series 503CW body remains in low-rate production and can still be purchased new, with or without a CFi digital back. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
