Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the 30mm F-Distagon, 40mm Super Angulon, 80mm Xenotar, 90mm Apo-Symmar Macro, and the 180mm Tele Xenar. All with electronic shutters, apertures and who knows what else. So far, and after several years. I've never had a problem with them and use them quite a bit except for the 90mm. <http://www.hemenway.com/DarkDayAcadia/> Jim Marc James Small wrote: > At 01:56 AM 1/23/2007, you wrote: > >This reminds me of when the first electronic Rolleis came out. Same > >mess. Batteries were dying, drained while the camera was allegedly > >off. Circuit boards and lens motors frying unexpectedly. Yep, some > >sorry mess. > >Rollei never recovered from that, among other reasons. It lasted > >through two model generations, the SLX and the 6006. For a while one > >could find them being given away in the back pages of Popular > >Photography. By then, one could count on one hand how many 'real' > >dealers could be found nationwide. > > I understand what you are saying, but Rollei had moved beyond that by > the early 1990's and owned the European pro MF market thereafter. Tell > me, just how many cameras does Hasselblad make today? They never had a > major battery problem, but they are gone, gone, gone, while Rollei > continues. > > It could be argued that Rollei made a mistake by moving from the SL66 to > the electronic cameras. Rollei had picked up all of that Voigtl?nder > work on the electronic shutter and took it to heart. Zeiss shared this > but dumped it save for the late Zeiss Ikon Contarex Electronic cameras > and their final spate of large-format lenses. But Rollei soldiered on > to produce some nice designs such as the SL35E and the SL3003. But it > took them a while to work up a basis in electro-mechanical shutters to > the fully electronic shutters in the 600x line, and, yes, they did have > a lot of problems which they overcame. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >