Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/03

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Subject: [Leica] Big folders
From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:17:32 -0500

The manager of the Green Mountain Camera store in Vermont, a mecca for used
and antique camera fans, tells me that he sells every Super Ikonta or
similar high quality folder that he can get his hands on within a few days.
Most of the buyers tend to actually use the camera rather than to display it
on a shelf. Apparently there is a market for big folding cameras. They don't
seem to compete with Hassleblads either in price or size and weight.

Larry Z


Kyle writes:

Seriously -- the sound of the bottom falling out of the used Hasselblad
market wasn't loud enough to wake up the folks at Fuji who are releasing a
new medium format camera, that takes film and has a FIXED LENS:



http://www.pdngearguide.com/gearguide/content_display/news/e3i9ee4b481143e87d78d9f9f786b51744a


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