Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i named a beautiful drink the FOLLEI in fond memory of the most beautiful rollie the 1939 automat. i am willing to license the the name free for a combined rollei-leica company. the suitablility is undeniable as its points out the general insolvency of both and their ground-breaking stupidiies the last 40 years. readers digest rocket scientist goofs(remember the mars landers)for leica first: stopping productions of rf m4-5 in favor of leicaflex then stopping leicaflex sl development for minolta downgrades;messing with superb 35f2 german 8-element gorgeous finger focus all downgrades until the present asherical( focusing mt still inferior to original); removing self timer on m's w/idioitic excuse need space for battery; adding metering neither a spot or a lens match; removing the wonderful auto 1/4 to 3/8 inch thread adapters top and bottom on large ball&socket head w/price as before; instead of new solo frame lines doubling them in each window destroying the intergrity of the original m2 design;shrinking original 35 framelines and adding 28 to original m2 rf ; elmar zoom by sigma with color balance never seen before; dropping E.Leitz as company name--that and wetzlar 2/3's of our mystique. For rollei,dropping the twinlens for a questionable succession ; the commemorate rolle f"s with their ersatz homemade planars(no xenotars). as they had melted the original rolleiflex dies they were forced to use rolleicord tranport mechanism-no magic stop at one .they announced demeaning arrow loading downgrade a necessary improvement because films too fat today to fit under rollerfeeling the start of the film.this mechanism is what made it the auto rolleito begin with. the commemorative is a rolleicord at heart. before accusing me of treason: i love my 2 m2's,1 w/selftimer i treasure for slow speed steadiness. ibought my first one marked e.leitz wetzlar before 1955. if anyone beats that date notify rof@mac.com but only if you're still alive. thanks.ralph > From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:34:16 -0700 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica + Rollei? > > At 12:31 PM +1000 7/19/00, Ross McLeish wrote: >> So does mean we will have a new company and camera called Lolly or Reicha? >> > > You must mean Leilei. This is important; we must get this right. > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com