On Tuesday August 3 2004 6:39 pm, Mat Hayashibara wrote: > At 03:55 AM 7/30/2004 +0200, you wrote: > >PS: don't forget that a large amount of Contax users will originate > >from the old days, where 'Zeiss' was still the only thing worthwile, > >apart from Leica....it's probably just as much a generation-shift > >than a technology-shift. > > I suspect the vast majority of the people that understood what Zeiss-Ikon > was, what Voigtlander and Rollei were, and that there was once a mighty > German camera industry, are no longer with us. What is left is getting > fewer every day. I don't seem to have a lot of trouble finding user > blackdial Contax IIa rangefinders in around-$200 range. That really is a > kind of tragedy. :-(
Rollei has a new SLR model that is very intersting. Rolleis were always a favorite of mine. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on." * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
