So, I am back with the Hasselblad and various other medium format fixes to get the job done. Soon thereafter, a visit to a real eye clinic rather than the mall-inhabitors revealed I just needed better glasses. I thought that I was being foolish for bringing so many batteries but am very thankful that I did. However, that wedding, even with the AF not being used, went through FIVE sets of Batteries. I purchased the larger packs to avoid burning through batteries so quickly. Second, the battery situation is ridiculous.
I eventually overrode the AF and did most of the wedding manually. If the AF lock does not work, when you compose the picture you find your focus has strayed to the area between the two people, often infinity and never right.
At a wedding, you are shooting large numbers of pictures with 2 or more people in them. The denoument was my favorite niece's wedding which I had come out of retirement to photograph. This did not work a great deal of the time.
However, what was most disappointing was that the auto-focus lock system did not work properly.Īs most of you know, with a good auto-focus system, you aim the center point at the most important part of your picture (okay, some of you depth of field freaks aim at the point for 1-3/2-3's depth), press down slightly on the shutter release to lock the focus at that point, recompose the shot and then release the shutter. I was disappointed that, within four months, the camera conked out and I was hit for a $480 repair bill for electronics. Having turned 50 years old, I thought that my vision was getting too poor to focus my Hasselblad equipment that I have had since 1969, so I bought a 645 with 80mm, quickly added the 140mm and tele-extender, then waited until Contax got their act together and came out with the 55mm lens (the 45mm lens, which was the next shorter focal length to the normal when Contax first came out is equivalent to 28mm on the 35mm format and I prefer 35mm on a Nikon or Leia). I owned and used a Contax 645 for over two years.
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