Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They are still having problems with meter boards. As I said to Jim in another post, I have had to replace 6 boards to date, which includes two in the current 6003 (which coincidentally uses a 6008i board). Slobodan Dimitrov http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > At 01:56 AM 1/23/2007, you wrote: > >This reminds me of when the first electronic Rolleis came out. Same > >mess. Batteries were dying, drained while the camera was allegedly > >off. Circuit boards and lens motors frying unexpectedly. Yep, some > >sorry mess. > >Rollei never recovered from that, among other reasons. It lasted > >through two model generations, the SLX and the 6006. For a while one > >could find them being given away in the back pages of Popular > >Photography. By then, one could count on one hand how many 'real' > >dealers could be found nationwide. > > I understand what you are saying, but Rollei had moved beyond that > by the early 1990's and owned the European pro MF market > thereafter. Tell me, just how many cameras does Hasselblad make > today? They never had a major battery problem, but they are gone, > gone, gone, while Rollei continues. > > It could be argued that Rollei made a mistake by moving from the > SL66 to the electronic cameras. Rollei had picked up all of that > Voigtl?nder work on the electronic shutter and took it to heart. > Zeiss shared this but dumped it save for the late Zeiss Ikon > Contarex Electronic cameras and their final spate of large-format > lenses. But Rollei soldiered on to produce some nice designs such > as the SL35E and the SL3003. But it took them a while to work up a > basis in electro-mechanical shutters to the fully electronic > shutters in the 600x line, and, yes, they did have a lot of > problems which they overcame. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information