Digital BW, The Print

On 3/14/2015 10:07 AM, Paul Roark roark.paul@... 
[DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] wrote:
> "As to being sad about Rollei's demise. . . .  and everything has a 
> life cycle.  Still, when an individual or multi-individual association 
> (including a company) has contributed, I think it is worth 
> acknowledging that.  I'll be "sad" to see Intel go also, and Apple, 
> Google, and all things will die, but they have made our lives better".
Thanks Paul,

The Rollei notes are for me poignant nostalgia. I was fortunate to have 
had as my first camera a leather-cased Rolleiflex with a 3.5 Tessar 
lens. I purchased it at the PX in Tripoli, Libya ca. 1950 when I was a 
young 19 y/o airman  Its cost was $50. Great camera that I sadly had to 
sell for ca. $100 in 1954 for college tuition. That served, in those 
days, as my student loan. To be honest, no other camera since, however 
expensive, whatever brand or format (and I've had many "cutting edge" 
models) has offered the same kind of Joie de vivre. Old photographers 
also have a life cycle as Paul noted. Finally, I guess it's not really 
sad whether a Rollei or a revered old negative or one of us fades way to 
the next generation  (hopefully after having made some lives better).

Tom Hefter