Hasselblad ..... which one?

Wilt, TeeTee, you beat me to the post.... very well and honestly stated.

Tareq, you are truly fortunate and I am happy for you. You live in an area of incredible wealth that boggles the rest of us. And from your previous posts, it's quite obvious that many things you were given at a young age have taken most of us decades to purchase, or at least mortgage ourselves for. And that's fine. But either you don't get it, or you simply don't care, but your incessant brandishing of all your high end expensive gear is just constantly flaunting it in everybody's face.

Perhaps I am ignorant of your cultural habits - maybe this is how your friends and neighbors behave. But here such behavior is considered at least clueless, or at worst rude and insensitive, when the same thing keeps being repeated. Sorry for the rant Tareq, but you really don't listen to the people here.

9 bodies and 15 lenses, haha. I have the cheapest DSLR canon makes, the kit lens and the cheapest L (70-200f4).

I can dream...

......understandable..​.... for years that's I all I could afford to do Mike.

mikekelley wrote in post #7652139
9 bodies and 15 lenses, haha. I have the cheapest DSLR canon makes, the kit lens and the cheapest L (70-200f4).

I can dream...

It was a while back that I was getting a lot of flack about the cost my Ds3 and my inability to use it.

I related a story about my youth and attitudes about "old men" owning Corvettes and that they wouldn't/couldn't drive them to their potential.
Went on to say that my new Ds3 is "my Corvette" and learning to use it gives me a great deal of pleasure.

Having said that, Tareq does seem to lack a bit of cultural awareness concerning the haves/have nots of the world.

Thanks mates, keep going

See you later!

Too bad, I am looking to sell my Hasselblad, but the price will never be good enough for any to buy it, where i should sell it then?

sapearl wrote in post #6879915
Not only that, but as long as you have surplus cash you can spend less than $2K on one of the top notch Minolta or Nikon MF scanners and scan all the film negatives you want.

Hasselblads are wonderful machines - I used their analog bodies for a number of years. As good as the new digital cousins are you'd be paying a ton of money for something less versatile and flexible in some ways than our current crop of dSLR's. Not slamming the 'blads - just that machines like you describe have somewhat narrow niche uses as opposed to others on the market. And if you go the digital 'blad route, make sure you have plenty of large supplemental hard drives

As staunch supporters of the 6x6 format, Hasselblad must have been absolutely mortified at having to pitch digital backs not even the size of the 'toy cameras' (645 format)! Even now it is not fully the size of 645 frame (43 x 55 mm), at 36 x 48 mm for the H3D-II

Well Tareq, you may want to try EBay or Keh.com. What happened that you want to sell it - I thought you loved that camera?

Tareq wrote in post #7777059
Too bad, I am looking to sell my Hasselblad, but the price will never be good enough for any to buy it, where i should sell it then?

sapearl wrote in post #7777161
Well Tareq, you may want to try EBay or Keh.com. What happened that you want to sell it - I thought you loved that camera?

Ah ok, i will try them.

To be honest, i want to sell it..... because.....

I want to upgrade to 50mp, by this way i can get 60mp upgraded from 50mp, no way to upgrade from 39mp to 60mp unless i sell 39mp and buy 60mp which will be much much more expensive for me than upgrading from 50mp.

I will gladly 'make a market' for Tareq's Hasselblad...$2000

Wilt wrote in post #7777245
I will gladly 'make a market' for Tareq's Hasselblad...$2000

Thanks!, even my 1DsIII is not going less than $6000 so my Hasselblad with lens 80mm is $2000?!!!!!!!!! great offer and i reject it, sorry

OK - let's get a bidding war going here.....hmmmm.... markets are down.... the economy is in trouble.... credit is tight.... OK, I'll give you $2005!

Wilt wrote in post #7777245
I will gladly 'make a market' for Tareq's Hasselblad...$2000

sapearl wrote in post #7777302
OK - let's get a bidding war going here.....hmmmm.... markets are down.... the economy is in trouble.... credit is tight.... OK, I'll give you $2005!

hmmmmmm, the camera is almost new [4 months old], with a lens and softwares, how much you can get new?

hmmmmmm, save your $2005 for new Hasselblad kit lens

Tareq wrote in post #7777285
Thanks!, even my 1DsIII is not going less than $6000 so my Hasselblad with lens 80mm is $2000?!!!!!!!!! great offer and i reject it, sorry

I could not justifiably pay $2600 for a 5DII, but I think I would convince my wife to let me buy a $2000 Hasselblad H3D

As I recall, that camera cost you about $18k, so in two years the used market will value it at $9k, in four years $4500, in 8 years $2700. Send me a private email in 8 years, and I will offer $2k again.

Would it matter if I offered to cover the shipping cost, too, for an immediate purchase? That makes it a better deal that sapearl's measly $5 increment!

OK - you've shamed me into it Wilt...... $2,050 and I'll pick up the shipping.

Wilt wrote in post #7777358
.....Would it matter if I offered to cover the shipping cost, too, for an immediate purchase? That makes it a better deal that sapearl's measly $5 increment!