Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-27 Thread Mark Roberts
Rob Studdert wrote: On 27 Mar 2006 at 14:56, Leon Altoff wrote: From what I have been reading the lead free solder is more brittle than solder with lead and more likely to suffer failures. One report I read said that adding zinc to tin/silver/copper alloy solder made the break jagged

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-27 Thread Margus Männik
Hi there, no, the PCBs can be the same. Flex boards are a different opera - and those are PIA no matter of soldering process type :) I am working as manufacturing product engineer for Nokia Mobile Phone division and we have changed to RoHS-compliant products llately. Basically, it is often

RE: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 25 Mar 2006 at 13:39, Tim Øsleby wrote: This was directly to the point Ralf. I am convinced the manufacturers have been waiting for this. What surprises me is that they thought we would believe this nonsense. Too true, though if they are only assembling units from stocks of old leaded

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread Mark Roberts
Rob Studdert wrote: On 25 Mar 2006 at 13:39, Tim Øsleby wrote: This was directly to the point Ralf. I am convinced the manufacturers have been waiting for this. What surprises me is that they thought we would believe this nonsense. Too true, though if they are only assembling units from

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Rob Studdert Subject: RE: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera On 25 Mar 2006 at 13:39, Tim Øsleby wrote: I am convinced the manufacturers have been waiting for this. What surprises me is that they thought we would believe

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread Bob Shell
On Mar 26, 2006, at 10:08 AM, William Robb wrote: Even if they weren't, there are manufacturing changes required to switch from lead solder to silver solder. If Fuji didn't think they were going to recoup the cost of change of manufacturing, then that would have left Hasselblad with no

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 26 Mar 2006 at 9:08, William Robb wrote: Even if they weren't, there are manufacturing changes required to switch from lead solder to silver solder. If Fuji didn't think they were going to recoup the cost of change of manufacturing, then that would have left Hasselblad with no camera to

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread Leon Altoff
Rob, From what I have been reading the lead free solder is more brittle than solder with lead and more likely to suffer failures. One report I read said that adding zinc to tin/silver/copper alloy solder made the break jagged instead of clean and enabled the join to continue to function. It

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 27 Mar 2006 at 14:56, Leon Altoff wrote: Rob, From what I have been reading the lead free solder is more brittle than solder with lead and more likely to suffer failures. One report I read said that adding zinc to tin/silver/copper alloy solder made the break jagged instead of

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-25 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ephotozine.com/news/fullnews.cfm?NewsID=2826 This takes the grand prize for the lamest excuse I've seen in a very long time. Looking closer, it's nothing but cheap propaganda of a quality one would rather expect from Pyongyang. This directive

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-25 Thread mike wilson
William Robb wrote: http://www.ephotozine.com/news/fullnews.cfm?NewsID=2826 So How are permanent electrical connections made in cameras that conform?

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-25 Thread Steve Jolly
mike wilson wrote: So How are permanent electrical connections made in cameras that conform? With lead-free solder. http://www.europeanleadfree.net/ S

RE: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-25 Thread Tim Øsleby
Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Ralf R. Radermacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25. mars 2006 09:38 To: Pentax Discuss Subject: Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-25 Thread William Robb
http://www.ephotozine.com/news/fullnews.cfm?NewsID=2826 Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: This takes the grand prize for the lamest excuse I've seen in a very long time. Looking closer, it's nothing but cheap propaganda of a quality one would rather expect from Pyongyang. This directive has been

OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-24 Thread William Robb
http://www.ephotozine.com/news/fullnews.cfm?NewsID=2826

Re: OT: New EC law forces Hasselblad to discontinue XPan camera

2006-03-24 Thread Mark Roberts
William Robb wrote: http://www.ephotozine.com/news/fullnews.cfm?NewsID=2826 This also reported to have affected Pentax's decision to obsolete the 645 and 67: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/new/index.shtml (scroll down to March 24, 2006 The Times They Are A-Chang'n)