[rollei_list] Re: Rolleimot
- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:25:30 -0400
Hi Marc,
Well, just like the Hasselblad vs Rollei discussion in sales we had a short
while ago, where the Mamiya was brought up as being a significant factor for
Rollei sales decline...if there were no Mamiya, what other options would
someone have had at that time?
If there were two restaurants next to each other, and the only restaurants
within a 50 mile radius, though you couldn't "prove" that one being there
had anything to do with a decrease in the other's sales (as they both opened
at the same time), it only stands to reason they did.
Though I agree, your Mini-Cooper/Peterbuilt is an extreme exaggeration of
little relevance. The Rollei and the Mamiya were far closer in use and
function than a Mini-Cooper/Peterbuilt are.
Regards,
Austin
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marc James Small
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 2:15 PM
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleimot
>
>
> At 01:55 PM 4/12/2010, Austin Franklin wrote:
> >Hi Marc,
> >
> >> The interchangeable lens TLR was a clunker and it
> >> was wise that they avoided producing it. It
> >> would have turned a svelte masterpiece into the
> >> sort of overweight disaster Mamiya produced.
> >
> >I don't disagree that it would have been an "overweight clunker"
> >comparatively, but why do you way the Mamiya was a disaster? I
> thought it
> >took significant market share from Rollei? If that's true,
> then it wasn't a
> >disaster, and had a significant number of sales.
>
> I would need some proof of that. I have known a
> fair number (35? 40?) of Mamiya C-series TLR
> users over the past twenty years, and I doubt
> that any of them would have ever considered
> purchasing a Rolleiflex, though one of them did
> use an Ikoflex IIa for, as he noted, "the often
> times the Mamiya is in the shop".
>
> I doubt that Peterbilt sales do much to affect
> the sales of Mini-Coopers. Similarly, I would
> need some proof before accepting that the Mamiya
> cut into Rolleiflex TLR sales. And, in the end,
> Mamiya did do what Rolleiflex did not, by keeping
> the camera in production long after its use-by date had passed.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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