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I agree with all that but it took two years hard savings to purchase that Rolleiflex and I took many of my early professional pixs with it until I could afford a Hasselblad. It is just a bit of fun to put the odd film through my old friend but agree it is not good for serious photography compared with D500 and D850 there is no contest. I was glad to sell the Hasslblads (at that time when other photographers were very cautious about digital I got serious money for all my Hasselblad kit) as soon as I knew that D1X was good enough for 90% of my work. For a time for studio photography and big blow-ups I kept using my 4x5 Sinar with transp film but the D3X saw that go.
Yes I can understand that. When you look back at the equipment we bought, that was needed to be self sufficient in business, it's quite scarey.
Professional film and flatbed scanners 🤯
I think my first serious flatbed scanner cost £8000. 3 years later they were £800. But the alternative at the time was a £100,000 drum scanner. 😱😱😱😱. I
I bought a Freestanding CD writer, one of the first of its kind, back in 1995 to transfer artwork to repro houses and later printers. It was a monster more like an old VHS video player 😆 . It cost £1500 and within 3 years they were selling them integral with PCs for £350. Fortunately mine had coffee spilt in it and faced with sending back to Germany to try to repair it (it went for a trip round UK electrical repairers first) the insurers gave me £1300 back ....went and bought a £350 version for my PC . 😎
I also remember writable CDs were £11 each when they came out ...of course that went on every job. 😆
There I go reminiscing .....maybe my nostalgia gene is awakening.
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Eric