[rollei_list] Re: ALPA Was Always Perfect
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:03:19 -0400
At 11:51 PM 4/14/05 -0600, Douglas Shea wrote:
>Thank you, as well Marc. I am sure that sales was of course their primary
>concern, and in hindsight much has been said about what Alpa, and Zeiss as
>well, "should" have done to survive. I'm not convinced that the survival of
>either of these companies would have been easy; the market changed rapidly
>and extremely fine build quality took a backseat to the emerging=
electronics
>from Japan -- and the Japanese are excellent marketers and tough
>competitors.=20
To be a bit nit-picky (which I hate to do in light of your most kind words
about the COMPENDIUM), Zeiss Ikon survived though it was forced by the
Zeiss Foundation to leave camera production in 1972. And Zeiss is still
the world's most significant optical firm and has seen massive profits for
most of the years since it was no longer required to underwrite Zeiss
Ikon's camera production.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
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