Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/29

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Subject: [Leica] Mamiya ZD camera.....
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Wed Oct 29 19:53:07 2008
References: <F3C3BE74ACF74F5AADAE20EDF9A6BACD@dadquad> <C52E91DB.447A0%mark@rabinergroup.com>

the holding comany that owned mamiya decided to sell mamiya to a new
company, i thought they would go out of business but they came back to
life. that's pretty good for a dead company

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> They had a very small booth.
> Almost as small as the company which made white self stick hole reinforcers
> for your Print Files for your Negs and prints that go in three ring 
> binders.
>
> I've never been a fan of the company. Never bought or planned to buy
> anything they ever made.
>
> They made a twin lens camera with interchangeable lenes which I may still
> some day use as I'm sure they'll be giving them away.
> The 220 and 330 as I recall.
>
> Numbers have meaning to me.
> Words no.
>
>
>
> mark@rabinergroup.com
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:05:42 +1000
>> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: RE: [Leica] Mamiya ZD camera.....
>>
>> Mark, care to comment on the leadtime between the Mamiya ZD being 
>> announced
>> to the world and actually being available to purchase ;-) That Mamiya rep 
>> is
>> pretty bold making statements about Leica given Mamiya's recent position 
>> in
>> the market place.
>>> From what I read the company was for a long period, reported as 
>>> variously on
>> life support, out of MF, resuscitated, about to take the world by storm 
>> and
>> who knows what else!
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>> Maike Harbets speaks on the S2. .... So we will drop down this technology 
>> to
>> our other systems.
>> Our priority is to modernise the R system which will be in the end an R10,
>> definitely.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> Mark Rabiner
>> Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:51
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Mamiya ZD camera.....
>>
>> Another point the Mamiya guy made at the Mamiya booth in response to the
>> Leica S is that it is A PROTOTYPE; Which means they don't work.
>> And that the window was 18 months.
>> By then I'd have changed my name twice and made a trip around the world 
>> in a
>> canoe!
>>
>>
>>
>> mark@rabinergroup.com
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:57:19 -0700
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Mamiya ZD camera.....
>>>
>>> The all-in-one ZD camera seems to be basically a no-show. It was a
>>> star of the 2004 Phorokina, but they didn't get out any working models
>>> for a while, and I don't think it ever shipped as a production camera.
>>> I saw a couple, and each one was a bit different and still
>>> 'pre-production'.
>>>
>>> By now technological advances have passed it by, and things like the
>>> DL28 make a bit more sense.
>>>
>>> --
>>>     *            Henning J. Wulff
>>>    /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
>>>   /###\   mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com
>>>   |[ ]|     http://www.archiphoto.com
>>>
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  regards, mehrdad

In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Mamiya ZD camera.....)
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