blad lens decoder

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C – older, Compur shutter with limited or no lens coating.
CT* – same as above with multicoated lens.
CF – same as CT* but with Prontor shutter and redesigned barrel (more rigid).
CFi – same as CF but upgraded Prontor shutter (lasts roughly twice as long) and better flare suppression due to better internal barrel coatings
CFe – same as CFi but with electronic contacts for use with 200 series.

The flare suppression on the CFi/e matters for longer focal length lenses in high key situations — i.e., where there is a lot of white background in or just outside of the picture. The upgraded Prontor shutter only matters for professionals taking 1,000’s of pictures — the CF can handle roughly 200K exposures; the CFi/e about 400K.

Hasselblad 500.

What Is

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What is, what isn’t photographable?

The photograph is more “of” something, than it “is” something. Paintings are always “the” thing. In some cases, the photograph is only the thing, just not usually, since the photographer is conditioned by looking, rather than making.

Anti Matters.

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As the conservative piss pots continue developing their anti this, that and the obama, the thinkers at that communo-socialist-elitist-intellecutal CERN have created anti-matter, if only for an instant. If only here in america. Too quickly we are fading into the history of thought, ideas. Too fast in too many matters that matter.

your past is just ahead of you