"Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seth wrote:
>
> > Many companies that went bust
> > were the very ones that lead the "electronic" revolution.
Yashica
> > is a good example.
>
>
> Heh. Yashica is Kyocera, which builds Contaxes. You might as well
say GM
> went out of business because the Oldsmobile nameplate was
discontinued.
Double Heh. Before Kyocera bailed out Yashica in the 80's, Yashica
was on the verge of extinction. This similar to Voigtlander (the
company) going poof in the 50's, while the Voigtlander (the name)
persisted into the 70's (before being revived by yet another company
in the 90's).
Funny aside. Carl Zeiss chose Yashica to make Contax SLRs, because
they thought it had better long term prospects than Pentax.
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