Hasselblad announces distinctly RX100-esque 'Stellar' compact

"SERVER ERROR" says for looking for more comments on this topic... i guess dpreview don't want anymore comments about this camera. Dpreview should learned something about this product that their readers are not as they think they are. If dpreview is really that serious about reviewing anything, they should think twice about it first before publishing anything. Commenters on this camera are about 95% are on negative side about this camera.. does anyone or two of dpreview staff have any idea of what their readers will think about this camera before before publishing it? Nope.. not even one i guess.

I really don't understand why everybody keep trashing HB - They created an admirable camera, pocketable albeit its large sensor and bright lens, which no Japanese maker can dream of achieving. The only problem is the pointless, ugly grip. Oh yes, and they may want to consider BSI sensor and tilting screen, but one can't ask for everything...

Here are some hard facts and features of the grip that people may have overlooked.

1. It looks like wood but its actually a space age nano tech based material that cloaks to the background.
2. It blends (cameleon) with the color of your outfit --- cool for fashonable uppies who match colors.
3. Dynamicals molds to your palm when you grip it, an advances Dr. Scholls for you palm.
4. The two rivets on the grip are actually micro laser beams that help focus assist that can do a mind meld and focus on command.
5. They are the next generation of cameras on US pedator drones.
6. If you are old fashioned you can turn off the cameleon feature and take it to a service center where you have the choice of 250 different grips.
The grip change is part of the scheduled maintenenace for the first 1 year or within 100 shutter actuations

Note that this is not a camera but rather a fashion statment so the engineers do not expeect to have more that 10 sutter actualtion in its life time.

Its ART

I am so embarrassed for them.

NEWS FLASH: HusselPlunder now comes with "Free" T shirt for the partner/wife.
It says in large print:

"I.M WITH STUPID"

Walmartians, ...... HasselBladians!, ........ Top Idea! This would work too!
Inspire by other posters.

Here,s a challenge: "FOOLS GALLERY"
1/ If you spot one of these adornments around the neck of someone in public, .. capture the shot
2/ Post it on DPR and other sites.
3/ Imbed a LAUGH rating counter 1 -- 10
4/ Send the results to HusselPlunder
5/ The winner will be sent the "Top Fool Spotter's" certificate

I would like to say that we can shame it out of the market, However, Fools are very thick skinned and very Vain!
Have fun with it.
If I spot a FOOL in Australia, I'll sell them the Sydney Harbor Bridge and offer to put an Exotic Wood Handrail on it.
Sydney Harbor Bridge $100Million, Wooden handle with an "H" on it $700Million. Sounds about right?

If you made a toilet brush with a teak wood handle and stainless steel wire it would probably last longer too.

I think dpreview should create a new menu item called "humor" and put news like this in there.

This camera just looks weird. Mixing wood with plastic not a good look. If Hasselblad REALLY want to branch out and increase their profit margins, they should start thinking about putting those handles in other places too. Hey how about a broomstick. A $5 broom could be worth $700 with that hand grip on it.

The recent offerings these are significant only due to the fact that Hasselblad has taken the Barnum and Bailey philosophy that a sucker is born every minute. Hasselblad seems to have lost their past and have become a 'me too' company and is certainly lost the status they once had.

I am posting a second time, as I always do after an initial post to ensure my first reaction was not "knee jerk"....please see my first post.

I was thinking of a really good April Fool's camera parody after reading about the Lunar and the Vario but alas, pathetic reality trumps fiction. Again.

Brilliant. An RX100 that won't fit in your pocket!

You could of course remove the grip and fit one of Richard Franiec's tasteful and beautifully made ones instead...

http://www.kleptography.com/rf/#camera_rx100

no big deal. Sony badge their lens as Zeiss already.
so no one can have a genuine product.

either you get a third-party lens,
or you get a third-party lens with a third-party grip.

hope there will be Sony-Zeiss-Hassy-Walmart version
with a third-party strap at the price of
Sony - Zeiss - Hassy - Walmart = Franklin

Whats the best about that camera are the comments about it :-)
Absolutely hilarious!

I have a good solution:
A web site should be established containing a list of NAMES of those shallow sods that have been stupid enough to be conned into making the purchase of any RE-Badged Stellar priced fashion accessory. (I don't class them as cameras)

The HusselBlunder Lunatic has a BODY ONLY price of $8,300 in Australia !!!
For those that aren't aware: "IT'S JUST A SONY NEX-7"
I'm told that it also just ships with the very ordinary Re-Named SONY/SUNY Kit lens!

And the HasselBlunder Stellar is, ... Wait for it! :
"IT'S JUST A SONY RX-100" priced at USD$3200 !!!!!!!!
Now, "Off you go, it's time to take your Yellow pills"

Some have compared this to Leica's rebadged Panasonics.

The thing is, Leica used that partnership as life support while developing its own digital cameras (starting with the M8). It contributed directly to the design of the Panasonic cameras it rebadged.

And Panasonic used/uses the Leica name on its lenses as a way to gain some respectability in the market. The current rebadged Panasonics appear to be more or less an afterthought beside a range of products designed and made by Leica.

I suppose it's possible that Hasselblad is using this initiative as a similar kind of "life support," but I don't see any evidence of it. What I see instead is a company that is now simply a brand, in the business of rebadging off-the-shelf cameras that it has not helped design. That its sole contribution appears to be a grossly overpriced grip of dubious tastefulness just adds insult to injury. And I don't see Sony getting the same kind of benefit Panasonic did.

I wonder what the market is for selling a wooden handle and a H is to RX100 owners as an add on? A Hassy on the cheap.
What would of been more useful is a lens hood system and flip up magnifier for the screen. That would make a degree of sense.
This nonsense stands a good chance of lowering the profile of their MF gear.

OMG that looks ridiculous!!! LOL

such a CLASH of conflicting styles.

what drugs were they on? looks like someone was in a real hurry to come up with nothing.

I can hardly believe this.
Embarrasing for Sony too.

Do the hassle...

Looks like a product of a mad artist.

WILL IT SELL?

"Eh sure... why not?" (Moe the Bar Tender accent)

"If they price it lower than Sony RX100, I'll buy one."

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I cannot believe what Hasselblad has become.

This is what happens when bad people buy good companies.

Do not let a bad person buy your good company.

What would Victor Hasselblad say about all of this? An inventor, entrepreneur and a gentleman. Shame on them!
http://www.exakta.net/Centenario-de-Victor-Hasselblad.html

The "Stevie Wonder" model by Hassy.

At least Leica actually makes Panasonics look a little nicer when they overprice them. Hasselblad is charging a premium to make your Sony butt-ugly.

OMG, that's impossibly ugly!
How could they release those pictures of a product destined to never ever see the public?

if the price is good enough, I think I may get one, throw the camera away, and fit the grip to RX100M2.