[rollei_list] Re: Zeiss SLRs

  • From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:59:30 -0400

At 07:42 PM 5/26/05 -0700, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
>Ah yes!  The Contarex, the boat anchor of cameras,  In that case, it
>was not a case of being too little and too late; it was too MUCH and
>too late!

Jerry

Only the original Contarex, the "Cyclops" or "Bullseye", is inordinately
heavy.  And in any event, the Contarex beat the Nikon F into the
marketplace by six months or so, so it was hardly "too late", though it was
too dear for mass sales.

Marc

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