[rollei_list] Who's going to the Kina ?
- From: Delphine Descamps Ricci <Delphine.Descamps@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:04:47 +0200
Hi everyone
I was wondering if anyone is planning to go to the Photokina on the
Sept 30th
I am planning to go and we could meet at the Franke and Heidecke
stand sometimes during the day
All the new management of the company will be there ... It will be
interesting to get a confirmation about the rumors circulated by a
local deal here that the cooperation with Jenoptik entails a strong
participation of Jenoptik into the capital of F&H. A more credible
source has suggested that there is a dela to produce a medium format
camera (in 6000 pieces/year) exclusively from Jenoptik. F&H could
also present new AF lenses (credible sources suggest it will be a
35mm !). It will also be interesting to know what are the practical
implications of the new joint venture with Komamura. They have
created a joint company to market both products in the us but there
is more. A press release talks about cross compatibility between the
two product ranges. If this is true and if you have an idea of
Horseman's products it will be truly significant for F&H.
If the all rumors are true f&H would be a streamlined structure which
is both integrated digitally (Jenoptik) and hardware wise (Horseman)
Additionally I guess that this is one of those rare occasions where
F&H management will be truly attentive to bottom up suggestions and
comments from our type of community.
In this management buyout they are all risking on their own skin, and
F&H has turned into a sort of a family venture.
I wise person in their position should carefully listen to people
with brand fidelity and expertise comparable to Emanuel's and Carlos'
If those of you living in the Americas wish, I could take some
pictures and make a small report on the items you're interested in
This includes of course the rest of the items shown in the kina
Let me know.
Warm regards to all of you
Andrea from Brussels
Le 30-août-06 à 18:00, bigler@xxxxxxxx a écrit :
http://www.rollei-gallery.net/e-bigler/image-95663.html
after to see the same sector with workers and tools in
my folder about the factory on 1959,
http://www.rollei-gallery.net/itar/image-59574.html
Thanks Carlos ! I had forgotten that you had those images from 1959 in
your folder ! As you can see the now empty the Kraemer machine shop
has been carefully renewed. This might have been a really modern
workshop in the fifties, with a lot of light. I have no idea about
what will happen to this building, but certainly it will not be
destroyed.
As of 2006 visitors can frelly enter the backyard an see what we have
seen with Dirk-Roger outside the factory. The place is located about
15 minutes walk from the train station.
There is near the main entrance on Slazdahlumer Str. a small building
labeled "Rollei museum" but we have no idea to whom it belongs and if,
an when, it is, or it will be opened to the public.
I was also very surprised to discover that the former Voigtländer
factory had not bee destroyed. The vintage picture of the factory
shows that there was a special tram line connecting the factory to
downtown.
There is also a lot to say about the city of Braunschweig. It is a
very industrial city with an old tradition in mining and steel
industry. Wolfsburg, one of the most famous centres of the German
automotive industry, is close to Braunschweig. So the place at a first
glance is not exactly a holiday resort ;-);-)
Dirk-Roger explained to me that after WW-II, Braunschweig was in the
British occupation zone, very close to the Russian zone ; during the
Cold War there were many British troops in Braunschweig which was on
the border with east-Germany.
The British authorities have decided after the war to transform a
former Luftwaffe airfield north of the city into a modern scientific
campus to host the German equivalent of the US National Institute for
Standards and Technology, the renowned PTB (Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt). Before the war the PTB was located in Berlin and the
facilities they developed in Braunschweig is superb. The PTB hosts
several of the most precise atomic clocks in the world and they are
the pionners of new kinds of so-called "cold-atoms optical clocks"
which are projected to be ten thousand times more precise that the
best commercial atomic clocks.
The competition with the Time & Frequency division of the NIST at
Boulder, Colorado, is hard ;-);-)
The city hosts other famous German research institutes.
Taking into account the huge fire that destroyed the city at the end
of WW-II, it is nice to see that many historical buildings downtown
could be rebuilt. All roofs had burned but hopefully the walls were
left. A Braunschweiger citizen told me that a brass fountain melted
under the effect of the intense heat generated by the fire ; a copy of
the fountain was re-built exactly identical from detailed pictures
that had been taken before the war.
--
Emmanuel BIGLER
<bigler@xxxxxxxx>
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Andrea from Brussels
Le 30-août-06 à 18:00, bigler@xxxxxxxx a écrit :
http://www.rollei-gallery.net/e-bigler/image-95663.html
after to see the same sector with workers and tools in my folder about the factory on 1959,
http://www.rollei-gallery.net/itar/image-59574.html
Thanks Carlos ! I had forgotten that you had those images from 1959 in your folder ! As you can see the now empty the Kraemer machine shop has been carefully renewed. This might have been a really modern workshop in the fifties, with a lot of light. I have no idea about what will happen to this building, but certainly it will not be destroyed.
As of 2006 visitors can frelly enter the backyard an see what we have seen with Dirk-Roger outside the factory. The place is located about 15 minutes walk from the train station.
There is near the main entrance on Slazdahlumer Str. a small building labeled "Rollei museum" but we have no idea to whom it belongs and if, an when, it is, or it will be opened to the public.
I was also very surprised to discover that the former Voigtländer factory had not bee destroyed. The vintage picture of the factory shows that there was a special tram line connecting the factory to downtown.
There is also a lot to say about the city of Braunschweig. It is a very industrial city with an old tradition in mining and steel industry. Wolfsburg, one of the most famous centres of the German automotive industry, is close to Braunschweig. So the place at a first glance is not exactly a holiday resort ;-);-)
Dirk-Roger explained to me that after WW-II, Braunschweig was in the British occupation zone, very close to the Russian zone ; during the Cold War there were many British troops in Braunschweig which was on the border with east-Germany.
The British authorities have decided after the war to transform a former Luftwaffe airfield north of the city into a modern scientific campus to host the German equivalent of the US National Institute for Standards and Technology, the renowned PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt). Before the war the PTB was located in Berlin and the facilities they developed in Braunschweig is superb. The PTB hosts several of the most precise atomic clocks in the world and they are the pionners of new kinds of so-called "cold-atoms optical clocks" which are projected to be ten thousand times more precise that the best commercial atomic clocks. The competition with the Time & Frequency division of the NIST at Boulder, Colorado, is hard ;-);-)
The city hosts other famous German research institutes.
Taking into account the huge fire that destroyed the city at the end of WW-II, it is nice to see that many historical buildings downtown could be rebuilt. All roofs had burned but hopefully the walls were left. A Braunschweiger citizen told me that a brass fountain melted under the effect of the intense heat generated by the fire ; a copy of the fountain was re-built exactly identical from detailed pictures that had been taken before the war.
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