$12,000 DSLR?

[Grumpy-Fan]

I was browsing B@H yesterday and stumbled across a $12,000 Hasselblad camera. What makes this camera worth $12,000? I read the specs and it seems like a nice camera but 12 grand is a lot of money. If money was of no concern to you would you buy this camera?

 

[ddbowdoin]

I was browsing B@H yesterday and stumbled across a $12,000 Hasselblad camera. What makes this camera worth $12,000? I read the specs and it seems like a nice camera but 12 grand is a lot of money. If money was of no concern to you would you buy this camera?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ..._3013666_H5D_200MS_Medium_Format_Digital.html

How about 45 grand?

 

[CP_alum08]

Haha, I was just about to say $12k for a Hasselblad is cheap!

It's the same idea as people spending $7k on a Leica.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I was browsing B@H yesterday and stumbled across a $12,000 Hasselblad camera. What makes this camera worth $12,000? I read the specs and it seems like a nice camera but 12 grand is a lot of money. If money was of no concern to you would you buy this camera?

Maybe. I prefer the Phase One system although the Hassy is much friendlier/easier to use when it comes to a tethered system.

And by this I mean shooting tethered over an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network on a beach in the Bahamas, with batteries running everything.

 

[Grumpy-Fan]

After looking at some of the medium format stuff, 12 grand seems reasonable.

 

[UncleMike101]

Several years ago I was allowed to handle an SLR lens that the professional photographer, who worked for A&E Network, had payed over $16,000.00 for. Made my $500.00 SLR look like a single use wedding camera.

 

[flavious27]

I was browsing B@H yesterday and stumbled across a $12,000 Hasselblad camera. What makes this camera worth $12,000? I read the specs and it seems like a nice camera but 12 grand is a lot of money. If money was of no concern to you would you buy this camera?

I would buy what top of the line alpha Sony sells, if money didn't matter.

As for the justification of the price, the camera would create better images and give you the opportunity to take better images.

 

[NowInc]

...yet so many people say the body is just a "tool".

 

[ddbowdoin]

...yet so many people say the body is just a "tool".

well, technically it is... it all depends on your end product. Some people spend 3,500 bucks on a D800 and their images sit on Flickr and Facebook. Foolish

 

[thomas998]

I was browsing B@H yesterday and stumbled across a $12,000 Hasselblad camera. What makes this camera worth $12,000? I read the specs and it seems like a nice camera but 12 grand is a lot of money. If money was of no concern to you would you buy this camera?

If money was of no concern I wouldn't bother to buy a camera I would just higher a photographer to do everything for me, then I might even be in some of the photos.

 

[ddbowdoin]

If money was of no concern I wouldn't bother to buy a camera I would just higher a photographer to do everything for me, then I might even be in some of the photos.

well you're supposed to enjoy the process!

 

[flynnibus]

...yet so many people say the body is just a "tool".

Different tools have different potentials You can achieve better results with a higher precision tool but it doesn't mean everyone will. That statement is typically used to qualify that no tool does the job alone... and for most people there is way more area for improvement in what/how they shoot.. vs what they shoot with