Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Hasselblad
From: jcb at visualimpressions.com (JCB)
Date: Tue Oct 19 14:02:02 2004
References: <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0410191205310.12140@hedvig.uio.no>

At 03:09 AM 10/19/2004, Daniel Ridings wrote:


>The classical Hasselblad is being phased out. They will only be going for
>digital cameras in the future (together with Imacon). Most production will
>be done in Asia (electronics).
>
>All in today's paper (if you can read Swedish).


According to Ruben, not only do they not say when, they only say that the 
rebates are being cancelled and that the prices of the classic Hasselblads 
will be going up in order to actually make a profit.

The only V Hasselblads that have stopped production are the electronic 203 
& 205. And they are so far ahead on production that they are both in the 
latest (new) catalog and have enough stock to still be sold for a couple of 
more years.

They did phase out more workers and they are heading heavily into digital 
and Asia production. And they do supply digital backs for the V system.

A lot can be read into a few words. But as of right now, the classic 
mechanical Hasselblad is safe. Maybe things will change in a year or two 
after the price hikes slow down sales to a trickle.

JB



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