[rollei_list] Re: Rolleimot
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:14:49 -0400
At 01:55 PM 4/12/2010, Austin Franklin wrote:
>Hi Marc,
>
>> The interchangeable lens TLR was a clunker and it
>> was wise that they avoided producing it. It
>> would have turned a svelte masterpiece into the
>> sort of overweight disaster Mamiya produced.
>
>I don't disagree that it would have been an "overweight clunker"
>comparatively, but why do you way the Mamiya was a disaster? I thought it
>took significant market share from Rollei? If that's true, then it wasn't a
>disaster, and had a significant number of sales.
I would need some proof of that. I have known a
fair number (35? 40?) of Mamiya C-series TLR
users over the past twenty years, and I doubt
that any of them would have ever considered
purchasing a Rolleiflex, though one of them did
use an Ikoflex IIa for, as he noted, "the often
times the Mamiya is in the shop".
I doubt that Peterbilt sales do much to affect
the sales of Mini-Coopers. Similarly, I would
need some proof before accepting that the Mamiya
cut into Rolleiflex TLR sales. And, in the end,
Mamiya did do what Rolleiflex did not, by keeping
the camera in production long after its use-by date had passed.
Marc
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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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