Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Must be something in that Los angeles basin air. Jim Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > They are still having problems with meter boards. As I said to Jim in > another post, I have had to replace 6 boards to date, which includes > two in the current 6003 (which coincidentally uses a 6008i board). > > Slobodan Dimitrov > http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ > > > > On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:10 PM, 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >