If you want to know what you get with the $2,300 discounted Hasselblad Stellar on sale at BHphoto (Click here) just watch the video below (courtesy of Steve Huff).
Would you buy it now that it costs $999 only?
If you want to know what you get with the $2,300 discounted Hasselblad Stellar on sale at BHphoto (Click here) just watch the video below (courtesy of Steve Huff).
Would you buy it now that it costs $999 only?
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What a sales pitch by Steve. I’m sure he gets paid for this.
Absolutely. But… for those who collect cameras, this bling, both cosmetic and functional, might be worth it at this price. I’d probably get one for my wife, but new FE stuff finally has the attention of my wallet right now and is where I’m directing my GAS.
Look, Hasselblad f-ed up with beyond unreasonable price. What’s worse is, they kept and continue this nonsense after it was clear how the market reacted to the first flop. But to Steve’s point – it’s still an amazing camera and when you factor in the collector value into the equation, it’s not all that crazy.
What is “functional bling”?
The grip was what I was referring to. One of my personal usability gripes about RX1, for instance, was the smooth surface that I just couldn’t grip comfortably. RX100 would be even worse for me. I’ve solved my dilemma by adding RRS grip and it made a world of difference. So… as blinged out as this hassy is – that grip appears to add functionality.
Ah, I see. I guess, it will depend on the surface treatment. Speaking of small grips, the one on the GM1 seems to be a good idea and would cool on the RX100.
There doesn’t seem to be a RRS RX100 grip 🙁
I would have ordered that for sure.
he makes money off clicks, very much like this site.. more power to him. And he’s not forcing people to drop 1k on this camera. The interesting note is 30 people have apparently bought it using his link. That’s 30 more than I was expecting.
May I ask you how you get the number? 🙂
Neremind, found in his article. On average it’s 4% affiliate rate per item, so 30 * 1000 * 0.04 = $1200. His Hassy just got paid off + a small bonus.
hey I sold one. Just to make the right proportion 🙂
It would make an interesting conversation piece. If I didn’t already have the RX100 and Lightroom I’d consider the black Hassy (not a bad deal when you consider LR is included).
As it is, my trusty RX100 (ver 1) is still going strong!
At $999 it’s priced how it should have been from the start.
Bottom line is it’s worth the extra premium now, especially with Lightroom included
Sorry Hasselblad: no ivory – no deal. Don’t care about wood.
Oooo, overpriced AND kills an elephant! Now we’re talking ostentatious!
Mine has to be ivory buttons, tiger skin body and rhino hoof grip, or I’m not buying it!
Ivory?! Tiger skin?! Rhino?! Really. Oh, you’re so easily pleased. I’m holding out for one with a unicorn horn grip and a body covered in pixie dust.
Well I didn’t want to come across as greedy or anything.
Yes the Unicorn grip, but you go for JUST the unicorn horn grip? I was secretly waiting for the release of the one with the Unicorn grip washed in mermaid tears, covered with diamond invisibility rings from mordor and the harry potter software Exposiamus update. Wrapped in dragons leather cleaned with small pieces of Merlin. But somehow Hassleblad thinks some of these wishes are unrealistic, yes I did tell them “you made THAT camera and MY ideas are unrealistic?”
Well, I don’t see why no original Moonstone is used.
It’s still $600 over an RX100… I’m sure there’s an aftermarket grip out there that fits the stock camera wonderfully. The rest of the Hasselblad accessories I don’t care for.
Ok, maybe, just maybe, I could see myself spending $999.99 on a special edition RX100 some day when I’m drunk (I never drink though). But why did they keep that black lens instead of painting it in silver like the rest of the camera ? It just ruins the design cohesiveness for me.
No diamonds? psshhh too cheap man.
It is still an ugly make up for a good camera. Sorry, no deal.
YOu put a lipstick on a pig… IT’S STILL A PIG!
My RX100 is a pig? Does that mean my pictures aren’t kosher?
No, the RX100 is the lipstick.
So this is why Sony released that “perfume camera”. And what is the A99, the handbag?
Backpack!
Yeah but Steve would kiss it for 25 cents.
Shouldn’t this be a pack up and send back video?
Still a crazy expensive wooden grip…
And he didn’t know how to pronounce wenge.
Well, the unpacking is probably the most interesting thing about this… thing.
I’m keeping my HK this pales compared to it !
If everyone stops buying them the price will drop even further !
Its not beautiful or ugliest, but if this was an Apple product it would had been “beautiful and revolutionary” The German needs to be like the American on how they market their products. The biggest lie sells.
Well, huge screws in your face, wood, weird colour combination, ugly outlined logo, broken lines… hardly an Apple product. Marketing can only take you so far.
Read my post carefully. never said was your beloved Apple product.
Well, my comment was mostly about that last sentence – marketing can only take you so far – but anyway…
Peace merry Christmas Vlad. Anyway if this was Apple
Dude, it’s obvious that he’s exagerrating. iPhone 6 is expensive and gets nowhere near the S5. So are most macs and macbooks. He exagerrated it in this case.
I know he exaggerated. S5, lol.
Why lol at S5? Has a waterproofed case, much better screen (sharpness and outdoor usage wise), records 4K, doesn’t bend and $500 cheaper unlocked (well at least here in my shop) and the list goes on…
Well, I am Apple hater, but I must note that Apple doesn’t release such c%$p.
LOL
Not really. Even Apple gets bashed for their newest iphones which look and feel like shit compared to their predecessors (which weren’t that special anyways).
This is much worse though.
Apple would never take a 3-year-old LG phone and slap a wooden grip on it and sell it for 10 times the price. The Germans don’t need to take marketing lessons from Apple, they need to get their heads examined . . . in the tradition of that fine German, Sigmund Freud!
I’ve lost a little respect for Steve Huff over this.
me too
Just look at this, then you’ll never see Steve Huff again like before. http://huffparanormal.com/about-me/
I do not see anything abnormal on that site, I communicated with my father during 2 month after his death, with my mother for more than 4 month and with my dog who sent me the last images seen trough his eyes during 4 days. Maybe you people do not live a spiritual life, if you where, you would know that we live in a big thought, a matrix of information where all is recorded and where you can ask questions and get answers. Every word ever spoken, written, or thought is up there and accessible to anyone who develops his spiritual level of communication. What Steve experienced here is nothing foreign to me, nor is it anything strange. I am a Master Teacher of the mystical doctrine of Kabbalah, and such things as Steve reports are for me nothing new or mystical. Non of you is probably aware what power is contained in a human body, and never forget, all of us, and the whole universe are one, we are all entangled and have the faculty to communicate and exchange information, even after our material death.
In his next video, Steve will use the Stelalr to hunt for paranormal entities and claim that the Stellar is the only camera that can capture “Stellar” ghost images~
Even if the wooden grip and the big “H” sticker would be worth 700 dollars -which they are not – it would still be embarrassing to own this sad product and show the world that you fell for this fake.
Well, it all made sense until Steve Huff explained his ‘logic’ of it being worth $999.99 because it was such a reduction over the heavily inflated MSRP and he thought he could make a $500 profit later selling it on FleaBay. The right answer – I get the Hasselblad rebadging of Sonys has become such a joke nobody’s going to give any purchase of this stuff any respect – is he bought it because $500 extra for a luxury version of the RX100 gives him a stiffy. If you like the feel and look of real wood and a grand isn’t a lot of money (and in this hobby/profession people talk about dropping a $1,000 on equipment like most people talk about super-sizing a side of fries at McDonald’s) then go for it.
Ugh. No. I am no I stranger to expensive cameras, but that thing is hideous. And it’s just an RX100. It offers no added value but sheer vulgar bling. And bad bling at that. Want a nice RX100 with a grip that isn’t hideous and garish? Buy a nice leather case with a grip. Job done.
Good for Steve, I guess. If it makes him happy and it makes him money on the flip, no harm, no foul. I would doubt him making money on the flip if I hadn’t seen gold plated cars with my own two eyes. Anything is possible I guess.
But no. I would never buy one. At that money I’d spend a bit more… Get an A7 body, thanks.
oponent Question: why should i buy A7-S-mk2 for that price, if we get in 2 MONTHS the
nEXT BLOATWARE SONY A7-S-mk3 and the next SONY A7-S-mk..5(4) is 2Months later?
for that i will give max. 400$..right 400$ is it worth..so..SONY…do i get the next 4k intern
A7-S for only 400$…hm?
and yes a normal full-hd cam say aps-c Alpha5100 = 149,90,- NOT MORE YOU GET..
and this is for all of them.. no money for BLOATWARE..
And I used to respect Steve Huff.
Well it reminds me Steve Huff telling horrible things about some cameras, but when the price felt to a dumping level, the same became good and he acquired it. The same when A7R came out, he preferred the 36 mpix over the 24 mpix, the reason was the better resolution with the high pixel count. A year later, the Nec plus Ultra is not 36 mpix anymore but, keep smiling, the top of the notch is now 12 mpix. Steve is a good photographer, a huge guy as well, but to often he contradicts himself on certain subjects, despite the fact that when he tests something he is very objective and show sus what he talks about as well. I think that there are at the moment no real bad cameras out there, but what ever happens, I would not buy this camera from Hasselblad for that price, the fancy look is not worth to pay that much. For sure, many people are different and this eternal I have, i am able to afford this or that, show off reasons, drives people to such follies. Not all people want to live that kind of life, and on the other side not all people may have that much money to afford gadgets like this or many other things that Steve Huff seem to be able to afford.
If you believe a Stellar is a good purchase, then perhaps you have a pattern of self-delusion. Everybody needs to see this. It’s unfortunate, because Steve Huff was a nice champion for Sony. http://huffparanormal.com/about-me/
Hasselblad is just dumping discontinued stock. Hardly worth a revisit.
Steve banned me for telling him it was a stupid camera. LOL – fine by me!
Did he really? These guys can have tempers sometimes – especially when he probably knows you’re right. Check out the link to his paranormal bull webpage I linked to below. He’s a nutcase.