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dwdmguy
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This kind of stinks for all the AFi owners/ lovers.
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=864695
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=864695
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"could spell the end" is not the same as "dead".I don't understand how the following is misleading at all:
it only says that the leaf afi is on hold right now.I don't understand how the following is misleading at all:
However, in an exclusive interview with BJP, Henrik O Hakonsson, president and CEO at Phase One said that the new partnership could spell the end of the AFi system. 'The Leaf AFi is a camera system that is currently on hold,' he tells BJP. 'We have to determine if it is commercially viable and we are still not convinced by it. The new company - Leaf Imaging Ltd - has the rights for the Leaf AFi but we are not going to produce it.'
This seems to be a common misconception. The Hy6 itself was successful and apparently F&H even expanded the workforce on that production line to keep up with demand.but isn't the absence of such demand what got the AFI to where it is now?
That makes no sense to me. How could it be less trouble to develop a new body, and new interface (which would initially be compatible with no backs whatsoever), and develop a whole line of leaf shutter lenses, and have no used market to make the price of entry to the system cheaper, rather than just adding the Hy6 mount to the choice of mounts Phase already offers?To some degree the HY6 serves really no purpose at this point and Phase may just start from the ground up on a completely new body which actually makes more sense at this point since it can serve more backs.
How about this as one of many possible scenarios? Sinar backs out of the digital back business and forms a partnership with Phase - Phase makes the backs, and Sinar produces the Hy6 and arTec. That would not be such a surprising outcome.I don't think I would bet any money on the HY6 being produced from Phase