The first breath of the night's dream

            Learning a new camera is like learning a new language: there is grammar, syntax, vocabulary all that have to be experimented with, learned, incorporated.  

I recently purchased a Hasselblad Flexbody.  I've been wanting one for years thanks to the work of Keith Carter.  And now that I have it, I am learning.  I'm learning how the camera sees, I'm learning how it speaks, I'm learning its vocabulary and grammar.  That requires trying its expression out, turning it one way, and then the other.  Using redundancy for comparison.  Normally I wouldn't make a photo using tilt only to follow it up with one using swing.  But in this case I want to see how each speaks, so I will know for the future how to employ one or the other.  

It is so much fun.

There is this thing when you learn another language where once you dive in you realize that other languages have words for things that your native language does not, or they have phrases for expressing ideas that you recognize but have never heard expressed.  It is fascinating because rather than just learning how to translate a word from one language into another, you are learning how to express something you have never before had the words to express.  Learning a new camera can be very similar.  There are things I am learning the Flexbody can express that my 500C cannot.  One camera allows me to see things that I had previously been able to imagine but never realize.  

I think that is pretty cool.

Hasselblad Flexbody
Kodak Ektar 100

Taken on: August 7, 2018

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Camera:	Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Windows)
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