[rollei_list] Re: new Zeiss Ikon- a hollow construct?

At 12:17 Uhr -0300 6.11.2009, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>Perhaps Hauke did not know that the "new" Zeiss Ikon RF camera was
>born from a meeting [...]

That's the management level, perceiving a business case. Powerpoint
involved, lots of it; no engineering, no manufacturing.

>The design bureau Henssler & Schultheiss [...] did the final design that
>CZ preferred regarding the Porsche design (consulted for the project too).

Design of the shell for an existing camera body.

So - where is the entity "Zeiss Ikon"? Where is the engineering, the
manufacturing, the service - and where will it be if the current ZI
rangefinder model is not seen as profitable any more?

Remember - the old Zeiss Ikon was a world leeader in designing (as in
"technical design", not 133t "Porsche" external design) for much of the
fifty years of its existence.

The new ZI is OEM'ing an existing camera.

>This camera allowed CZ to build some lenses they could not make due to
>a lack of a right platform.

Zeiss Oberkochen could have happily produced lenses for the Leica M series.

>There is nothing hollow about the new Zeiss Ikon RF camera.

When I said

>> This is the New World - move production to China, and make a profit off the
>> "intellectual properties". Look at the New Zeiss Ikon, btw - it's the same
>> hollow construct.

I wasn't talking about the camera.

        hauke

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