At 10:38 Uhr -0500 12.11.2009, Sanders McNew wrote: >I saw this news release on a German web >site, that appears to be saying that after a >creditors meeting held yesterday, Franke >& Heidecke will be resuming production, >with a reduced staff, of TLRs and possibly >of 35mm cameras as well. > > [link] Thanks for the link! Plus 6x6 and 24x36 slide projectors, as others have already mentioned. With 20 employees... that's a far cry from the 2.500 who used to work for the old F&H, and what they can build will be a far cry from the technical excellence of the 6000 series - a few golden TLRs and Rollei 35 for the collectors' market. "Lieber ein Ende mit Schrecken, als ein Schrecken ohne Ende." hauke -- "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO) --- 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