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Subject: Re: [OM] ALPA cameras
From: Denton Taylor <denton@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 06:04:15 -0500
At 07:49 PM 2/26/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Looking through the March Shutterbug catalogue today I came across a
>stockist in New York who carried various Alpa collectibles.
>
>The last time I  saw an Alpa camera was in the UK in the late 1960s.
>
>Out of curiosity, is this brand still being manufactured? ........ I seem
>to remember that they were manufactured in Switzerland.
>

They are back and are manufacturing very expensive medium format cameras
with tilts and shifts that use large format lenses. They had a booth a the
NYC PhotoPlus show last November and were showing these cameras.

However I think the 35mm cameras always had a rep for tremendous quality
but idiosyncratic design. So there was always some collector interest.


Regards,
Denton Taylor
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