[rollei_list] Re: NASA & Rollei
- From: aghalide@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:13:40 +0000
Jeff Bremer of Nasa negotiated the use of a Nikon in space. Jerry Brown of Nikon was successful in completing the negotiation in my Queens living room. Oops....made a mistake...it was the dining room. Simon Nathan supplied the ice cream and cake.
Ed Meyers
-------------- Original message from Dirk-Roger Schmitt <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>: --------------
> In 1994 or so NASA considered to buy a new set of
> cameras for the Shuttle fleet, a couple of some hundred.
> At that time one was not very pleased with the
> performance of the Hasselblads because lack of a
> a sophisticated metering system.
> The Rollei 6000 series was seriously considered
> to be bought by Nasa. However, the contacts to
> the US representatives of Rollei were not really
> helpfull at that time (as it was reported from Nasa to me).
>
> I mediated negotiations between Nasa and Rollei
> Germany, which lead to a visit of the Nasa camera
> representative (who was a German native US
> American who was very positive to German
> products) at Rollei in Braunschweig where he was
> very impressed about the 6000 system.
>
> However, Nasa required to have a back for a long
> roll of film for the camera. Rollei had one in
> the programme, which was an adopted Mamiya back.
> However, this had a lot of flaws, and Nasa
> required to remove all the shortcomings and after
> that they would be very pleased to place an order of a large lot.
> Unfortunately the management of Rollei was
> completely unaware about the chance this camera
> delivery to Nasa could achieve; so they did not
> continue negotiations to come out with a
> reasonable offer to Nasa. And further on, after
> having had Nasa visiting Rollei on my
> intervention, Rollei management did not feel
> responsible to inform me on the outcome of the
> visit (which could have helped to mediate further negotiations).
>
> A couple of years later Mr. Sass, Rollei CEO,
> approached me again on this issue. He had heard
> about the failure of the older management to
> respond adequately and wanted to restart
> negotiation with Nasa. However, at that time it
> was too late. Nasa already hat invested in a large new lot of Hasselblads.
> And the next lot after that became digital.....
>
> This is a stoty of a missed opportunity due to decision by management.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Dirk
>
>
>
>
> At 14:53 27.10.2009, you wrote:
> >At 09:39 AM 10/27/2009, John Wild wrote:
> > >I had read somewhere that one of the astronauts (cannot remember which
> > >one off hand), when NASA realized that they did not have a suitable
> > >camera for the pending mission, popped out to the local store and bought
> > >a Hasselblad 500...
> >
> >It was Alan Sheppard and a Yashica.
> >
> >Marc
> >
> >
> >msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> >
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