Thursday, August 10, 2006

WTF is a Hasselblad Nut?

Since writing my few scattered thoughts here on Pol an Ionán, the Nut house has been bombarded with queries. What the fuck is a Hasselblad or words to the like effect. Mistake on my part, to assume that everybody has heard of the best Swedish camera in the world.

So, for the avoidance of all doubt, here is what a classic Hasselblad looks like, in case one falls out of the pocket of anyone walking in front of you going down a cave in Clare.



They are extremely good cameras, so good they were the ones chose by NASA for the moon trips way back when I was a younger nut. They were therefore the cameras used to take this picture, one of the most famous images ever made:



However, such is the way of the world that having been in the film camera business for a hundred years (literally) they have recently reduced their film camera production and are now mostly making digital cameras.

Just by way of a point of clarification.

There will be no posts for the next three days because I will be drunk. And that is a perfectly acceptable excuse in any Irish Court: see Bocktherobber’s blog.

Good evening.

Nuts

1 Comments:

Blogger Bock the Robber said...

That's right, Nut. The Hasselblad was the camera chosen by NASA to shoot the fake moon pictures and fair play to them, they did a fuckin great job.

However, the picture you show here is actually of a man down in a cave lamping rabbits.

An easy mistake to make.

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