>>>More like ripped off...<<<
Fred - I see it as a compliment, same thing that happened with Schneider and our Superrotators (whereas "those have taken it from us without paying or fulfilling their contracts" - anybody can add the word that he thinks will fit for this by himself).
on the contrary I even sympathize with ALPA, they follow the same ideas on photography and this makes us connected.
If an idea is good there will be others doing the same thing.
Overall the market is big enough for the 2 of us and I even think this will sport a larger momentum for HCam
as any marketing that Alpa creates for them will also point to us. And we still have a different feature set,
our slider, an open system that can use all techcam accessories from all makers (HCam-B1v)
and a different concept of usage (Top display with separated aperture and time settings all in one user level-no menues!) as well
as probably a different pricing (but that´s speculation).
Regards
Stefan