Frankfurt Airport Duty Free area shows Hasselblads. Image courtesy : Ulrich.
After Medvedev, Beckham and David Lynch we spotted a fourth star using the Hasselblad Lunar: American Chef and super star TV Personality Rachel Ray, was sporting a Hassey Lunar in the photo pit during a set from Blondie at Stubb’s BBQ – SXSW 2014 (Image here).
You can currently buy the three “Sony luxurified Hasselblads” on eBay: [shoplink 22672 ebay]Hasselblad Lunar (on eBay here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 22673 ebay]Hasselblad Stellar (on eBay here)[/shoplink] and the first [shoplink 26481 ebay]Hasselblad HV superkit (on eBay here)[/shoplink].
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Any jokes about chefs not having good taste?
oh my god, sony can’t stop making nex-7! at this rate, how can we see A7000?
veeeeery interesting thanks for sharing, but what about the RX2? 🙂 pixel count in the 3 digit range? any pictures or sketches of the camera?
who?
Exactly! Who?????
Googled it.
She’s a cook apparently.
hey i think these should be called “hasselblad-luxurified sony’s” rather than the other way round.
At least these celebs have a complete iISO flash system to use, with vast current third party support and two native iISO smart radio slaves with TTL and HSS capability.
Who are the real dopes here?
Pity that they will never use it.
Who would have ever thought Hasselblad would be the last man standing for an Alpha flash system with native off camera cables available from many sources?
Can anyone find a single smart off camera cable for the F’up piece of sh!t Sony MIS?
A lot of people are making fun of Hasselblad about what they are doing there. However, there is a small market niche of excessivly rich people who prefer the expensive luxury gadget over the “cheap” one. In the end one has to congratulate Hasselblad that they managed to find a successful model to milk this market segment. I assume they make something like 4k $ profit per Lunar model and something like 1k per Stellar, maybe even more. Leica may be the only company in the mirrorless market which comes close to such profit per unit.
It’s quite clear – no real alpha dog will use same cameras like a plain dirty folk does. But alpha dogs wanna enjoy qualities of hi-end mass-production as well. Hassy made a distasteful but beneficial movement in this direction. The point only is – Lunars & Co are not really that luxury. Compare them with mobiles of sheiks made of pure gold and platin, decorated with diamonds and sapphires – this is luxury (still with no taste but it’s different story). Lunar is in this comparision some kind of an village idiot who dress his best clothes to dive in a big city clubs.
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Where’s my Hasselblad A77II rip-off?
sonyrumors turned sonygossip?
Didn’t they used to make cameras, or is that mamiya?
who cares?? why does the admin post such boring stuff?? Hasselblad is selling what ever they want to sell, I really can not see why we get those kind of post over and over and over again. Yes we know by now that Andrea makes fun about Hasselblads cameras that basicly are just a copy of the Sony ones. But I think it is just enough by now: so no ironical posts anymore and no posts of how owns such cameras. This is just not what SAR is about.
Just my opinion
Ridiculous thing 7000$ … 4.5X the price of GH4 ridiculous.
GH4 is already overpriced, a real dog purchase – at least for stills.
GH4 and M43 is overpriced garbage. Go play over there for a while, your appearances here are boring.
A distant relative, a film star, was given free wristwatches from a luxury swiss marque, for both her and her husband. They only asked that they wear them once in a while. Not appear in an ad, not take a photograph or a testimonial, just wear the things.
Apparently luxury bauble makers think celebrities who just happen to be using their product will give them free publicity. Such as, apparently, appearing in blogs.
In other words SAR is promoting Hasselblad by making fun of them all the time. People say there’s no bad publicity, but I do wonder if that still holds when the products are so extremely vain (in every sense). I suspect the people who actually pay money to buy Lunars aren’t doing so because of blogs, and the full-time worldwide damage to Hasselblad’s reputation outweighs whatever immediate profit these products bring.
Yeah admin, we don’t want to read this kind of stuff.
and there they will sit.
You should have write : “Next idiot to buy a Lunar is…”
Excuse me while I throw up…
It’s very fitting this tv star waitress is using this camera. Rachel Ray is not a chef (and never has worked a single day in a working restaurant kitchen); she’s a former waitress with a personality, connections, and an on-set staff of chefs. It’s an insult to professionals who’ve spent their entire lives training in a working kitchen, graduated culinary school and paid their dues to have some poser be called a “chef” (same kinda thing goes with the Hasselblad).
LOL! So fitting that she is sporting the Lunar!
Wow, so by that logic, no self taught photographer should ever aspire to greatness dare they insult some “trained” professional? Please.
I do not think that is implied there, Chad. You are stretching it a bit. There are some self taught photographer celebrities out there (some very good) but not all “artists” make good photographers.
Why is this posted in rumors?