---- Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike,
> I heard you, but just because Hasselblad tried and got tripped up
> doesn't mean that they could have stopped the revolution. That's kind
> of like saying "If Longenes didn't have their head up their ass, they
> could have saved the mechanical watch industry." Eastman Kodak had
> the resources and the knowledge of what was on the horizon, and they
> were much better capitalized than Hassy. They lost a lot more in this
> revolution than a simple camera maker.
> Regards, Bob S.
That's not ("stopped the revolution") what I'm saying. Hasselblad was a
_leader_ in the revolution until the company owners/management, for reasons
that seem at first glance to be incredibly selfish, pulled the plug on the
research and development and spent the money on something else. Probably
themselves.
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:23 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Bob Sullivan wrote:
> >
> >> Companies have an institutional memory and like to do what they know
> >> how to do well. A major technological innovation can mean major
> >> dislocations. Suddenly that expensive Swiss timepiece is bested by a
> >> $6 chip watch from Texas Instruments. Mechanical time pieces became
> >> an anachronism. So too with film cameras... Regards, Bob S.
> >
> > The article says that the above scenario was not the case. Engineers were
> > working on digital solutions (did I write that out loud?) in the early 90s.
> > There was a takeover, the research was scrapped and the considerable
> > financial resources disappeared. Amoral bandits.
> >
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Keith Whaley wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Derby Chang wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> A really fascinating essay on LL today.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/rise-fall.shtml
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Well worth a read by anyone seriously interested in understanding more
> >>>> about the turning point between film and digital use.
> >>>>
> >>>> I thought I had a reasonable understanding of it, until I read this
> >>>> article!
> >>>> Well written and (until something better comes along) pretty much a
> >>>> short
> >>>> but seminal revelation on how it all came about.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks, Derby...
> >>>>
> >>>> keith whaley
> >>>
> >>> I saw it as more a description of the gross mismanagement, followed by
> >>> the
> >>> financial rape and eventual (at least partial/temporary) salvation of a
> >>> world class camera company. It has less to do with the change from film
> >>> to
> >>> sensor than it has to do with asset stripping and feckless, ignorant,
> >>> self-centred little toads.
> >>>
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