Hi Carlos, Soooo...you don't think Hasselblad had anything to do with the Rolleiflex TLR decline? Regards, Austin > -----Original Message----- > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of CarlosMFreaza > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:27 AM > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Decline of Rollieflex/Film > > > If you are talking about the Rolleiflex TLR, its decline had nothing > to do with the digital era, German photographic industry started to > lose markets and to close factories from about 1955/56 due to the > Japanese photographic industry competition; F&H had a continous growth > up to about 1958; in 1959 the growth stopped and while Reinhold > Heidecke felt the Japanese TLR cameras were like a homage to his work, > they slowly were reducing the Rollei TLR market. RH died in 1960 and > Rollei management decided to develop the MF SLR that RH did not want > to manufacture in 1955. About 1965 Rollei TLR cameras production was > reduced and R&D work abandoned due to the Rollei SL 66 and Rollei 35 > launching in 1966. The number of Rollei TLR cameras produced from 1973 > to 1981 was very, very small in comparison with the TLR golden age > production. The TLR did not integrate the Rollei models to produce > after the bankruptcy process, it was a risky decison of the new Rollei > management to produce the F Aurum and Platin and due to these > expensive models little success within their limited edition they > decided to produce the GX for little batches. 1966 and 1973 are two > significant years to consider the Rollei TLR decline.- > > Carlos > --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list