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Introducing Nick-T.
My name is Nick Tresidder (known mostly as Nick-T) and I have been a photographer for over 20 years. I trained as an assistant in London during the 1980’s before moving to New Zealand where I live with my beautiful wife, four boys and a dog named Fin. I have shot with Hasselblads throughout my career and in 2000 decided to go digital with a six mega-pixel Imacon digital back called a 3020. Digital imaging knowledge was hard to find back then so I started an online user group which has grown into the Hasselblad Digital Forum where Hasselblad users from all over the world help each other and share knowledge. Over the years I’ve made lots of friends at Hasselblad and I plan on using those contacts to keep you all informed with what’s going on in the world of Hasselblad. I’ll do my best to answer your questions and keep you entertained, and I should warn you that I’m pretty opinionated and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, nor do my opinions necessarily reflect those of Hasselblad.
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Hi –
The cable you reference ” use a heavy 10 metre (that’s 470 ft) Granite Digital firewire cable”, is it still sold? Not sure if I am blind, but I can’t find it,
Dan
Hi Dan I hope you got that the 470ft bit was a joke.. The 10 metre (30ft) is here:
http://www.granitedigital.com/firewire9pinto9pin1394b32cablenoled.aspx
Note the heavy Ferrite beads!
HTH
Nick-T
Ah, gotcha. Missed the joke – I was thinking they were making something with built in repeaters along the cable, like the old Dr Bott repeater USB cables. Thanks…
Dan
Nick
Great to find a Habla blog, finally. I am a quality mad amateur using Leica, Nikon and yes a H4D50 (have always used Hablas but not their backs – P1 before).
Great camera, difficult to master the beast, much like it is difficult to shoot the M9 well., but hey, horses for courses, right?
However, I find the teething problems of it unaceptable for a kit that costs the equivalent of a really good car.
Mine freezes or acts up at least once in every 100 shots or so – the dimmer function of the viefinder display freezes the body, the LCD on the back sometimes doesn’t wake up from sleep, the camera looses connection to the lens while shooting and thinks it is a 1:0.5 lens (great, I could retire my 0.95 Noctilux), the exposure lock freezes …
Never any of those issues with my D3X, nor with the M9′s … nor with the P1′s
A bit on the embarassing side, methinks.
Alfred
Hi Alfred
You are right, you really shouldn’t be having these problems. Come and join my forum at hasselbladdigitalforum.com and lets see is we can resolve your issues.
Nick-T