Bye bye Konica Minolta.

Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 20 January 2006

They are handing over the camera business to Sony: http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html

I've never been a fan, perhaps Sony can do something with it.

Tony
Posted on: 20 January 2006 by Nime
I suppose the change to digital photography is pushing the old names aside much like all fading technologies expire. Vast manufacturing empires and thousands of empty mills are now beyond human memory. British motorcycles are a perfect example. Home sewing machines are another. Many charity shops have enlargers, cine and still cameras and projectors going for small change. What next for the chop? Analogue audio making way for "perfect" digital sound from online free-source through to active, room-exciting, pneumatic-macrochip, megachannel wallpaper?
Posted on: 20 January 2006 by Bob McC
.....and mangles, twin tubs, tin baths, trafficators and....vinyl LPs!
Posted on: 20 January 2006 by Sloop John B
quote:
Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
.....and mangles, twin tubs, tin baths, trafficators and....vinyl LPs!


My twin tub sounds great since I added a HiCap. Still some life in these twin tubs yet.
Posted on: 20 January 2006 by u5227470736789439
quote:
Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
.....and mangles, twin tubs, tin baths, trafficators and....vinyl LPs!


I miss trafficators. We had a Morris with them: Flashing lights are not nearly so interseting!

I wish the twin-tub still was made. No finer idea for clothes washing has yet emerged.

I remember my two gradmothers both using mangles, and no wonder that obesity is on the rise with the loss of such things!

Tin baths are still a better idea for dog washing than anything else.

But surely, except for the specialist, the roll-film is finished? I have a Canonet 35mm camera, which is splendid, but I would never buy another film camera given how good the digital ones are.

All the best from Fredrik
Posted on: 20 January 2006 by TomK
I used to love watching our old twin tub as it emptied into the sink (we couldn't afford to have it plumbed in at the time). The dirt from a few pairs of student jeans was something to behold.

I agree that for the vast majority of people the roll of film is going to be dead soon.
Posted on: 21 January 2006 by HTK
They had their golry days on the 70s/80s but have never got alongside how to make quality digital SLRs. I was a fan for many years before falling foul of an expensive bit of shitty junk when I went from film to digital. I'm not sorry and the world of photography (today at any rate) will be slighter better for it.

Cheers

Harry