Getting rid of the low-end to make the higher-end cheaper

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:55:31 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

I find it interesting that the discussion seems to totally omit the
TLR. If you go back to the 60's, most people couldn't afford anything
like an Alpa, and the SLR's were Exakta and Exa, from East Germany.
35mm RF cameras were the thing, if you were into the 35mm market.
Otherwise, people still used 120/620 folding cameras and just about
everybody (Sears included) made TLRs. The Kodak Retinas were imported
from Germany, IIRC, and by the mid 60's lens-shutter SLR's like the
Kowa were being imported. But how many people had those Argus C3's?
Not as many, I think that used Tower TLR's.

Alex, who coveted the Leica M3 in those days but settled for a Kodak
Vollenda (127 roll film)

Chemiker writes:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:55:31 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

I find it interesting that the discussion seems to totally omit the
TLR. If you go back to the 60's, most people couldn't afford anything
like an Alpa, and the SLR's were Exakta and Exa, from East Germany.
35mm RF cameras were the thing, if you were into the 35mm market.
Otherwise, people still used 120/620 folding cameras and just about
everybody (Sears included) made TLRs. The Kodak Retinas were imported
from Germany, IIRC, and by the mid 60's lens-shutter SLR's like the
Kowa were being imported. But how many people had those Argus C3's?
Not as many, I think that used Tower TLR's.

And TLRs weren't that different in size from a Brownie box camera
(heavier though). But I rarely saw anybody with one, except serious
photographers.

Alex, who coveted the Leica M3 in those days but settled for a Kodak
Vollenda (127 roll film)

I did get an M3 in about 1973 (used); having started with a Pixie 127 in
about 1962.
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