Rollei/Hassy showdown ..

[d_purdy]

http://www.rollei-gallery.net/peterk/image-87374.html

 

;-) thanks to Peter Kotsinadelis

[dennis_oconnor3]

It's simple mechanics... THe Rollei guy has a pot belly to rest the camera on, so he designed a waist level camera... The Hassy guy doesn't have a pot so he designed an eye level finder... And now you know the rest of the story...

 

denny

[OCULUS New York]

And a decade later, F&H came out with two new lines of SLRs that Hassy has never been able to match. Unfortunately, their marketing never matched their designs, and thus we may be near the end of the Rollei story.

 

Cheers and thanks,

Ray Hull

[q.g._de_bakker]

Sure, blame it all on marketing. After all, that people do not want to buy something caanot have anything to do with the thing itself, can it?<br>;-)

[OCULUS New York]

Well Q. G. what would you chalk it up to? It sure wasn't engineering. We all know that Hassy is the equivalent of Harley...still a 1956 Buick, no matter how you slice it. Otherwise, no comparison (viz: SL66, SLX/6000 series).

Cheers,

Ray Hull

[q.g._de_bakker]

Well... sales figures (and people's decisions reflected in them) seem to disagree. I'm not going to argue with those. ;-)<br>So what else could it be? Better cameras, perhaps? ;-) You seem to focus on state-of-the-art technology that Rollei cameras have and Hasselblads don't. The lack of success of Rollei cameras (compared to Hasselblad) shows that this is not a quality people rate highly in cameras (and rightly so: built-in exposure automation etc. is of no use in studio photoggraphy, etc.). And the inclusion of all those gizmos meant more things that could and would go wrong too.<br>And we could go on and on before reaching the 'marketing'-factor.<br><br>Now the Rollei TLRs. They are something different. ;-)