Photographer Olivia Bee contends that “it’s way more important to know how to take a picture than use a camera.” I tend to agree. Here’s why. Using A Camera Obviously, one does have to know how to use a camera. I’ve said on numerous occasions that one of the pitfalls of frequently upgrading camera bodies […]
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Hasselblad is a Swedish company that manufactures medium format cameras, photographic equipment and other imaging products. It was established in 1841 as a trading company and the founder’s son who was interested in photography, started the photographic section of the company. Hasselblad was also the sole Swedish distributer of Eastman’s products in 1888. During World War II, Hasselblad also produced watch and clock parts in addition to military cameras.
The first successful commercial camera was the Hasselblad Universal camera which was the preferred camera of professional Scandinavian photographers. The first landmark design for the camera was the 500C and in 1962 NASA began using Hasselblad cameras on space flights.
Hasselblad now has a huge range of cameras and lenses and also collaborate with other companies like Sony. They also have deals with mobile phone and drone companies that feature Hasselblad cameras in their devices.
Today we are continuing our recent theme of looking back at where the big players of the film era stand today. In this article, we are going to look at the big players of medium format and how they faired with the transition to digital. Some were lost, some incorporated, but others are still going […]
Technology has given us infinite possibilities via digital photography, and it also precipitated an almost complete annihilation of analog and chemical-based photography. However, thanks to a weird mixture of events, analog photography has regained some strength after the devastating blow that digital photography gave to it. Not only has the camera produced incredible art, it […]
One of the most expensive camera makes out there, Hasselblad tends to command attention wherever it goes. Peta Pixel recently featured an article about Taiwan-based artist Helen Sham and her Hasselblad camera that she crafted entirely out of pieces of Lego, the popular toy from Denmark that has found its way into the hearts of […]
When we talk about contemporary photography, we need to understand that it refers to more than a particular period of time. Contemporary photography is a genre in and of itself – and like every other genre, certain photographers working within it have made deep contributions to it.
Landscapes are a major genre in photography, and many photographers capture them using a pristine approach that bridges abstraction and minimalism. It is amazing to see so many styles of photography in one single genre. For better or worse, human beings have transformed our landscapes, and our footprint has been a subject of many landscapes, […]
