This is something that is quite annoying to me!
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Hopefully manufacturers will see this.
I don't remeber Hasselblad worrying about Kodak and Fuji and wondering how they can make a better film. I think if they make their back and their bodies people will buy what they like. But I could talk till I am blue in the face and it would not matter.
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Ric,
I think they're listening, they're just not going the direction you or I want.
Why a camera like the Contax cannot stand on it's own and make a profit is really beyond me.
Did we wear out cameras faster in the film days . . . I think not, or did we pay more for lenses when we shot Fuji film? It's obvious that if contax was still around the 645 would still make a profit, but probably not the profit they wanted, which included the digital solution as well as the camera.
As far as the blad and the HY6, neither interests me mostly because they are proprietary. In fact I don't think I ever heard the word propiretary in regards to cameras before digital became part of the equation.
Since I'm not in the camera selling business, maybe I've got the wrong take on this, but to the the HY6 is a huge undertaking, if only because the installed user base of Rollei is so small in the U.S.
Before that camera hits the shelf I would think it must be in every rental house ready to hand out in case your primary camera goes down, or a lens sticks, or . . .
I went on Sinar's forum and other than estimated base price and estimated delivery, I don't know the full extent of lens prices, rental options, will the Leaf HY6 work with a Sinar back, etc. The only thing that was made clear was Phase is not part of the HY6 program, so I guess that tells us the primary thought process.
I just wonder how successfull any film camera would be if it didn't work with the most popular film and how sucessful the HY6 will be with only two instead of 4 backs that will work on it?
Still, regardless of the deals, the agendas, the who's in, who's out business models we've seen in the last few years, the company that wins will be the one that makes the best and most stable product, whether it be cameras or backs, or cameras with backs.
JR