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The only bad thing about the Rolleiflex is that it doesn't support Phase One backs, and there are no plans on changing that.7) One good thing happened when Phase One overtook Leaf and one I do praise and appreciate very much: Captue One for Leaf RAW files. That ROCKS, thank you very much and well done!!! . :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"The only bad thing about the Rolleiflex is that it doesn't support Phase One backs, and there are no plans on changing that.
Read your own statement.I agree with your assessment about this ridiculous infomercial. Not once in the "interview" (really, a soapbox for P1 CEO) did the "interviewer" ask whether the money Silverfleet put up is actually sitting in the company and available for future product development or, instead, is sitting in the bank accounts of the stockholders who sold 60% of the company. However, you are wrong about who is calling the shots. Silverfleet is in control in a legal sense, but the key management is still calling the shots as a practical matter because Silverfleet, like most private equity investors, is not equipped to run the business. They bought the company based upon management's future business plan, and they won't jump in unless and until the the current management fails to execute the business plan.
Team Phase One backs are not closed against the Hy6 Platform.3) Open platform? Phase One is NOT. Interestingly, in spite of the legal case against Hassy a few years back, P1 backs remain closed against AFi/Hy6 platform. Is that not tad "odd"???
Absolutely. Same idea as in many industries. Offer the same quality but with a few less features and charge less for it. That way you get the additional revenue from customers who find sufficient value in the additional features, and still get the revenue from the customers who do not.can anyone make business sense of the concept that Phase should produce an intentionally 2nd tier back (leaf)?
Absolutely. That's what private equity firms do a ALL the time. Venture capital firms are completely different. The money put up is usually funded into the company to fund r&d and business expansion.Read your own statement.
Would Silverfleet (given their modus operandi / raison d'être) invest in P1 if that investment was going into pockets rather than into capital intensive near term growth?
Isn't "open platform" a property of the camera, rather than the back?3) Open platform? Phase One is NOT. Interestingly, in spite of the legal case against Hassy a few years back, P1 backs remain closed against AFi/Hy6 platform. Is that not tad "odd"??? :bugeyes:
Team Phase One backs are not closed against the Hy6 Platform.
Phase One owns Leaf and has brought it's IQ platform technology to the Hy6-mount Credo line.
A Hy6 Credo is basically an IQ back without sensor+, hard buttons, focus mask, or auto-horizon/pitch correction. Both products are made by Team Phase One. Does it matter to you if they slap the name Phase One or Leaf on the side?
Howard,Absolutely. That's what private equity firms do a ALL the time. Venture capital firms are completely different. The money put up is usually funded into the company to fund r&d and business expansion.
I have no issue with phase one's owners for pulling tens of millions out of the company. I think its great. I am an American. I do have an issue with deceiving the medium format digital community...us... by creating the impression that this was all about raising capital for business expansion and product development. If I am right, of course.
Doug,Team Phase One backs are not closed against the Hy6 Platform.
Phase One owns Leaf and has brought it's IQ platform technology to the Hy6-mount Credo line.
A Hy6 Credo is basically an IQ back without sensor+, hard buttons, focus mask, or auto-horizon/pitch correction. Both products are made by Team Phase One. Does it matter to you if they slap the name Phase One or Leaf on the side?
Finally found the time to watch this earlier today.
This cosy (and that's putting it mildly) relationship between LuLa and Phase One is not beneficial to any party - least of all those who hand over hard earned cash for the product.
Publishing fawning advertorials such as this is, frankly, a disgrace.
TimI've said this before, but they should acquire Alpa or Arca-Swiss.
There will always be a gap between abutted sensors. To fill that gap requires a second exposure at a shifted or re-pointed position...so you're back to square 1: stitching! :facesmack:P1, please just build me a 617 CMOS sensor (2xD800e sensors side by side if you have to) that can fit within a 90mm image circle and I will go in peace. Stitching photos at the beach is terrible.