Don't forget Minolta too who were superb and at one time lead the pack when autofocus first came in. I know that Sony took them over so in one sense they morphed but the original is gone. No chance me getting a updated driver for my Minolta film scanner so it will run on Windows 7 then. Rollei started to fade as soon as their TLR's and subsequently other medium format gear struggled in a fairly crowded market place which was rather niche after 35mm film improved so much. Story of many other things like cars for instance. Magnificent names from the past long gone. Ah well, that's life, as I said earlier you needs lots of money to keep up with the fast changing field of the electronics.
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