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"Q.G. de Bakker" wrote in message
news:420dd8d2$0$26225$18b6e80@news.wanadoo.nl...
> Gordon Moat wrote:
>
> > [...] Very recently Kyocera
> > stopped production of several Contax 35 mm film camera bodies.
>
> Please ignore my previous post. It went on it's way before it was ready
to.
>
> What it meant to say (when finished) was that the choice of Cosina as
> manufacturer, Hasselblad as marketeer in the new Zeiss-Ikon project will
> have ruffled Kyocera's feathers. And that this may very well be what's
> behind the decision to stop these Contax things indeed.
>
> But only if Zeiss' choice for Cosina as new partner came before Kyocera's
> decision to stop the Contax 35 mm line. Did it?
> And even if, the current market is not very good for these things anyway.
> And Kyocera is not likely to cut a fruit bearing branch of their tree in a
> hurry, no matter the state of their "affair" with Zeiss..
> So economics will be behind that.
>
> The new Zeiss-Ikon however should appeal to a different market (and
Cosina's
> reputation in that particular market may help a lot).
> And so does the Contax 645; appeals to a diferent market.
> Which means that reasons for dropping the 35 mm Contax products will not
be
> reasons too to drop the Contax 645. So i doubt that what happened to the
35
> mm Contaxes is providing a clue about what will happen to the MF Contax.
>
> However, the market for the Contax 645 is not exactly prospering either...
>
>
Well, if Zeiss ever chooses to make their excellent manual focus SLR lenses
in the K-Mount, I'll be first in line for them!
Imagine if they made lenses in other than their proprietary mount? They
wouldn't need to make a camera body. The RTS could just fade away. Ot's
the lenses that most everybody wants anyway.
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