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Chapter 222 I'm sorry Sony, we don't want to contact you anymore

Hasselblad branch in France.

Hasselblad is a camera brand founded in 1841. It has attracted much attention in the photography circle for its high-end quality and expensive price. It is headquartered in Sweden, but has branches and dealers in various countries.

Zhang Bao knew the manager of the French branch, and he sat casually in the office and flipped through magazines.

After a while, Manager Roland came back after finishing the matter.

"Dear Zhang, haha." He gave Zhang Bao a big hug.

Both of them had been colleagues in the same company before, and they had a very good relationship, but they parted ways in 2015. One returned to China to join Huaxia VOGUE, and the other joined Hasselblad in France.

The career prospects of photographers are bright...

"How is your new product testing going?"

"I don't know much about this, but the headquarters has collected feedback from many photographers. We will launch this product probably next year. What's wrong, why do you think of asking me this question?"

"next year……"

Zhang Bao frowned slightly.

This means that the test is almost over, so can Chen Xing apply for it?
His appearance was seen by Roland, he smiled and said:
"My friend, you can tell me if you have any questions. If you want to buy in advance, then I can still meet your small request. You just need to invite me to eat hot pot, but not too spicy .”

"No, are your test qualifications still issued? I would like to recommend a very good photographer to you."

"Who?"

"Chen Xing, the retro works shot are very popular in China, but he is in France, do you know him?"

Roland said exaggeratedly: "Chen? You mean Chen from ENSAD?"

"You know him too?" Zhang Bao asked in surprise.

"Who doesn't know him in France? A student who was kicked out of the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, and then taken away by Paris's high-end and precise vision. The buildings and portraits he took are especially beautiful. Many stars want to cooperate with him."

Zhang Baogang came from China and only knew that Chen Xing's works were popular in ELLE, but he didn't expect him to be so well-known in France.

No wonder French VOGUE will specially invite him to shoot works.

"What about you? Do you want to cooperate with him? That camera." Zhang Bao asked.

Roland thought for a while, nodded and said:

"No problem. We hoped to allow more photographers to participate in the test. We are very confident in this camera."

He considered three points. The first was Chen Xing’s status as a Chinese photographer. Currently, their layout is still in Europe and parts of East Asia. There are not many photographers invited by China. The second is that Chen Xing was originally a Chinese video website and Youtube. The host can update the evaluation video on both sides.

In the end, it was Chen Xing's personal level.

The pictures taken by Chen Xing were evaluated by the Paris Academy of Fine Arts as a backward style, but Chen Xing not only did not correct his shooting style, but proved himself with a more retro and backward style. This vigorous spirit Roland I also like it very much.

In this case, let Chen Xing join the evaluation list of the new camera.

…………

Zhang Bao said it for two days, and Chen Xing got the new camera two days later.

A group of people ran outside the school to call Chen Xing. After they came out, they signed a contract at the speed of light. Then Chen Xing got a black box with HASSELBLAD written on it. Inside was a camera, two batteries, a lens, and cables.

The process was so fast that Chen Xing was completely dazed... He was a little excited when he just came out of school, but he was a little dazed after seeing the vigorous and resolute behavior of others.

After the people left, he sat down again and looked at the contract in his hand.

The contract is mainly for the testing party, namely Chen Xing.

This camera cannot be displayed outside before August this year, and offenders will be fined.

The camera cannot be actively damaged (except for normal wear and tear), and offenders will be fined.

After August 2022, it is necessary to post camera reviews on social networks and video networks. It is best to take more photography works. If the content is well received, you can be invited to visit the Hasselblad Headquarters factory in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tailor yourself as a cameraman. X8D.

Yes, this camera is the Hasselblad X2D, the world's smallest 1-megapixel medium format camera to be released soon.

Chen Xing came out of school in a hurry, of course he did not bring his Sony a7m3. In fact, he was keeping the Sony in the dormitory. After all, he basically didn't need it for class, so he didn't bother to bring it out.

This Hasselblad X2D is more beautiful than the Sony a7m3.

The cold right-angle style has a feeling of Nordic artwork, and it feels great in the hand. The weight is just right. The black-gray metal body is as sharp as an unsheathed sword in the hands of a knight.

What is a7m3?
Really unfamiliar.

Chen Xing was admiring the appearance of the camera against the sun, and was about to install the battery, when a person suddenly came beside him and asked, "Is this a Hasselblad camera? It looks so beautiful."

"Yes." Chen Xing said with a smile.

Then quickly restrain the smile.

"Sorry, I have to go..."

It cannot be displayed outside before August, and offenders will be fined!
This article is only for people who know about cameras. Otherwise, even if you dangle in front of others with a camera, they will not know what a Hasselblad is. They will think that there are only Sony, Canon, and Nikon cameras in the world.

When I put it back in the box and took it back to school, it attracted a lot of attention.

The classmate sitting next to Chen Xing asked, "You bought a new camera?"

"Yes."

"The packaging is so beautiful, what style?"

"Empty, empty, just a box, I took it back to put things..."

He can fool the laymen, but he can't fool the people in the class. What kind of cameras do the major brands have, what are their advantages and disadvantages? .

You can't take out the camera in front of them, Chen Xing reminded himself.

He endured two classes, and only opened the box to appreciate it when he returned to the dormitory at night. The camera is really beautiful, and the matching new lens is also small and light, 55mm F2.5, auto focus and manual focus only need to be toggled The focus ring on top.

Chen Xing was extremely excited throughout the night, he liked this camera so much.

Tomorrow, I must go out to take pictures on the street to see the effect of this camera. I don’t know how much this camera sells for. It is estimated to be at least [-]. If it is less, I will be sorry for the appearance of this camera like a work of art.

There was music playing inside and outside Chen Xing's room, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.

Upstairs, Hedwig turned on the lights, quietly creating her own oil paintings, listening to the music from downstairs, looking at the door from time to time... He seems very happy today, is it because he bought a new camera? ?
It seems that he really likes photography.

A day passed.

After Chen Xing finished his morning class, he took his camera and headed straight to the station in Paris. He was going to visit the medieval castles in the Loire Valley today, stay for one night, and come back tomorrow morning to resume class.

If this kind of life is known by domestic friends, they should be envious. Chen Xing is called a colorful university life.

The Loire Valley is not too far from Paris. If Paris represents the romantic and avant-garde side of France, the Loire Valley is the quiet and classical back garden of France.

The trains to the Loire Valley are all box seats, the kind facing each other. Chen Xing found his own seat and sat down, and the train slowly drove out of the station.

He is still fiddling with his camera.

He had already taken some photos of passers-by on the street before. Judging from Chen Xing's impression of using the a7m3 before, this Hani X2D camera's automatic white balance is very good.

The outdoor light in summer is very bright. Under such circumstances, the photos taken by various cameras with automatic white balance will definitely have different color tones, but this camera can actually restore what Chen Xing saw with his naked eyes to a large extent. Hue, from this point of view, suspend Sony for the time being, and use this Hasselblad will not lose money.

However, this Hasselblad X2D also has a big disadvantage.

He can't record.

Yes, if this camera costs [-] to [-], or even more expensive, then the camera you bought back with so much money can only be used to take pictures and cannot record videos. It is just a camera.

However, this is an advantage for Chen Xing.

This is a camera specially made for taking pictures, as if it was tailor-made for Chen Xing, because he really rarely uses the camera to record videos.When he used Sony before, he only took pictures when he was visiting the store. After all, the system has its own video recording function.

In the future, if you want to shoot videos, you can use GoPro. Anyway, he will often carry an action camera when he goes out.

Today's train is fairly clean, but there are some tourists sitting in front.

The seat opposite him remained empty.

People came up at a small station below. They were a mother and son. The mother was about 40 to [-] years old, and the child was five years old, thin and pale.

He was wearing a pair of big glasses, with dark blue eyes hidden behind the lenses, his eyes kept moving, but they were never focused, as if there were many things to see around him, but it felt like he didn't see anything.

Is it sick, child?

Chen Xing thought to himself.

But it's definitely not cursing, but Chen Xing thinks it might be some kind of congenital disorder, otherwise a child of this age shouldn't be in such a state, and his body is too thin.

Standing outside the window was an old man with a slightly fat body. She smiled and watched the mother and child leave gently. She might be the little boy's grandmother.

The old man's face is full of love, even without words to express it, her every move is enough to make people feel her tenderness.At this time the boy also laughed, wondering if he felt this kind of love.

Chen Xing raised his camera and took a picture of the old man from the window.

Several people watched over, and Chen Xing also gave them a friendly smile.

While driving, the mother held the child in her arms, touched the boy's head with her hand, and comforted him gently. The two did not speak. This silent expression of love reveals the mother's infinite love for the child, which is pure and pure. good.

Chen Xing didn't even dare to raise the camera to take pictures, for fear of disturbing the atmosphere.

After a while, the boy was no longer afraid, and looked around again. Only then did Chen Xing act. He took out a pen and paper from his backpack, and quickly used a pencil to draw the picture he saw just now.

Both painting and photography are a way of Chen Xing's expression. If you miss the best time for photography, you can just paint.

After a while, Chen Xing handed the painting to the child.

"For you," he said.

"Thank you." The mother said very gently, and helped the boy to pick it up.

The picture above was holding her son when the train was moving. She smiled, asked her son to take the picture, and said, "You draw really well. Are you a painter?"

"I wish I was, but obviously I'm not."

Chen Xing spread out his hands, with a helpless expression on his face.

He still has a long way to go from being a painter. If he doesn't develop skills, at least these two years will be his study period... But he has already drawn this kind of sketches very well, and it is estimated that there will be no problems when he goes to teach art candidates. big.

I don't know if the boy understood the painting, but he started to fiddle with it left and right.

Chen Xing looked out the window.

I don't know where the train passed, but it suddenly rained here, the road along the way was filled with rainwater, and there were turbid waves rolling, and the cliffs standing on both sides of the Seine River were lush.

Chen Xing held up the camera for a long time without taking pictures.

If only I was on the road below, why does the Seine River in the rain suddenly feel different?

There are also high cliffs on the shore, which should also look good when photographed.

Chen Xing took a picture of the rain outside through the window of the train.

The anti-shake of this camera is still good, but this level of anti-shake is completely useless when on the train. If the shutter speed is slightly slower, you can’t shoot anything, but if the shutter speed is high, you can’t take pictures. Feeling what Chen Xing wanted.

Forget it, anyway, there are plenty of things to shoot in the Loire Valley.

This place is also part of Chen Xing's book. Even if he doesn't come today, he will find opportunities to come several times in the future. One story only occupies one space. Chen Xing needs at least three or four stories to write about the Loire Valley.

The boy on the opposite side finally found someone in the same carriage as him after so long. His eyes became focused and he began to look at Chen Xing.

The child's ignorant eyes.

Chen Xing also smiled.

Not long after, the car arrived at the stop, and the mother got out of the car first with the child, who was holding the painting that Chen Xing had given him, looking back from time to time.

His eyes were out of focus again.

Chen Xing didn't know if he was looking at him, but he still waved his hands and bid farewell to the pair of mother and son who made him feel loved, and then got out of the car with the camera when almost everyone in the car got off.

When Hasselblad sent the camera, he did not send a wrist strap. He brought a blue one himself, which was removed from a Sony camera.

Many people say that Chen Xing is a scumbag, but he disagrees, after all, he has never really dated a girl.

His previous experience made him more cautious about falling in love.

But for the Sony a7m3 that has been packaged and all parts have been disassembled and put in the suitcase, Chen Xing really wants to say sorry.

Hasselblad is so delicious.

(End of this chapter)