Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad