New Reflex camera

[Helge]

Copal were still making leaf shutters until 2013, so one must assume the ability is there somewhere. I would hazard a guess that a 120 folder might be easier than a 35mm SLR but that's going to be a very small market, surely? Most of the photography students and people aspiring to do something other than lomography are looking for an SLR.

Thinking of Lomography, does any of their cameras have decent shutters with multiple speeds and apertures? I guess Seagull are still making TLRs. So a leaf shutter camera is not impossible.

If that is so, it's completely unreasonable.
Such a camera would have nothing to do with Lomography. It would be a absolutely the same IQ as other high quality folders.
A magnetic actuator (voice coil?) leaf shutter in a high quality 3.5 lens with aspherical plastic elements in the middle, perhaps even exchangeable with a "lens board" type construction, would be every bit as good to learn on and use, as a professional or ambitious amateur as a 135mm SLR.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I am so sick of these people who want to produce new products for film or encourage new people to shoot film. Who do they think they are?

+1

 

[Helge]

I am so sick of these people who want to produce new products for film or encourage new people to shoot film. Who do they think they are?

Problem is such a failure puts the whole field in a different light for investors and manufacturers. It also creates FUD amongst film shooters.
It's not free to fail. Not in a personal sense and not from a public perception view.
It also makes a huge difference how you fail.
This just appears to be stupidity. It would a completely different thing, like it appears to be the case with Ferrania, that it is one accident and problem after another.

 

[removed account4]

Making even an entry level but decent 35mm SLR is no easy matter....as this group of people have found out....

I guess the problems happen when the scale is increased from 1zys, 2zys,10zys to full scale mass production
this guy in Switzerland makes some interesting stuff. ——>> https://www.panomicron.com