Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Remember, we're talking about the line's introduction. Then again, I'm at my 2nd circuit board in my 6003 in less than 5 years. Slobodan Dimitrov http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ On Jan 23, 2007, at 3:44 AM, Jim Hemenway wrote: > I have the 30mm F-Distagon, 40mm Super Angulon, 80mm Xenotar, 90mm > Apo-Symmar Macro, and the 180mm Tele Xenar. All with electronic > shutters, apertures and who knows what else. So far, and after > several years. I've never had a problem with them and use them > quite a bit except for the 90mm. > > <http://www.hemenway.com/DarkDayAcadia/> > > Jim > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information