Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]October 2004 (see my paraphrase of the article posted earlier). And that was 70 over and above the 165 that had been previously reduced coconuts. Both Hasselblad and Imacon have the same owners, a Hong Kong based holding company. In the early 90'ies Hasselblad had a far advanced program for digital products. This is when they were still owned by "Hasselblad" (ok, he was dead, but it was still the original management, probably owned by the foundation). Then the Swiss came in and bought the camera company. They said: There's no way professional photographers are ever going to use digital when they have this high quality medium format system to choose from. The new owners (the Swiss owners) took the decision to scrap all R&D into digital. So it really isn't managements fault Hasselblad ended up here. Management had a far advanced program. The hungry capitalists (short sighted) are the ones without vision. Then they sold it off to the Hong Kong holding company. That company is doing hard work to keep Hasselblad alive. Since they also own Imacon, the odds are not all that bad. The alternative is to just shut the place down. There's not enough medium format moving on the global market to support a modern company with a few dozen employees. Daniel On 12/24/05, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > More than 1 or maybe 2 years ago they stated they had reduced employee > coount to 70. That included everyone at Gottenberg. At that time, I > stated the end was nigh..... Believe it.... film is dead at > Hasselblad...... > > Now about that H series ( AKA The Pretender): Watch out for film > backs...... The COmpany that bought Hasselblad ( Asian I believe) could > care less..... > > Now maybe we could get the good guys that worked at Hasselblad as sales > reps, a job at Leica supporting the Leica DMR and future Digital M cameras? > > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >