[rollei_list] Re: [no longer OT !] 2008 F&H Photokina Images
- From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:23:41 +0200
from Carlos:
....
Thank you for the interesting web page, it looks like analogue
photography is alive and with some future.
Carlos
Well, Carlos to be honest, the "reporter" was biased toward certain
categories of equipemant and consumables... in which we do believe.
The good news seem to be that Franke & Heidecke have found a way to
support the continuation of some traditional products like 6x6 film
cameras and projectors by working on contract for other companies.
Of course the HY6 is one of those contracts in collaboration with other
actors of the digital photography scene, but probably the machine-tools
and skills are maintained by contracts with other less visible customers.
This is an interesting evolution of the F&H company that, hopefully,
will preserve it for the years to come. I wonder whether to some extent
Linhof actually continues its business according to the same model as
present F&H, i.e. sub-contracting activities that support the
fabrication of the well-known view cameras.
The other interesting company model illustrated in the 2008 photokina
report are small family-owned businesses like Silvestri or Arca Swiss
that produce niche products in the photographic world. They are still
there despite of the tremendous changes induced by digital photography :
their products are gradually adapted to digital photography.
Another interesting kind of businesses is small companies committed to
distributing consumables for B&W photography, like MACO (partly under
the Rollei brand, this is anotehr story !) or BERGGER, as illustrated in
the 2008 photokina report by T. Rebours.
But if I read T. Rebours' Report correctly, the customer demand in the
Far East for traditional photography is an important driving force, and
not only in Japan, where rolleiphiles have probably played a major role
in the rebirth of the Weitwinkel and tele Rolleis, but alse Korea and..
China.
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We'll see !
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