RE: [KOML] RE: History...Koni-Omegaflex

["Frazier, Charlie" <Frazier.Charles@pss.boeing.com>]

Please pardon a new subscriber.

At the local Puget Sound Camera Collectors swap meet, I found a
Omegaflex in excellent condition for about $675.  I can see why it was a
slow seller.  While of excellent quality, it was ungainly, even by the
standards of the day.  Oh well.  

I was fortunate enough to find several film holders for my K-O 200
though.

Charlie Frazier
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> From:
> Peter.Kotsinadelis@exchange.Octel.com[SMTP:Peter.Kotsinadelis@exchange
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> Sent: 	Tuesday, April 28, 1998 1:09 PM
> To: 	"Koni-Omega Mailing List" ; "Clive Warren" 
> Subject: 	[KOML] RE: History...Koni-Omegaflex
> 
>   I spoke with Paul Klingenstein today.  Paul was the person who 
>   bought out the Simmons brothers camera to later develop it with 
>   Berkey into the Koni later Rapid Omega.  The Omegaflex was a 
>   Konica made TLR that was designed in the 1960s to compete with 
>   the Rollei TLR, at that time still an immensely popular camera.
>   
>   Although the projections for sales were high, the reality was 
>   that the sales were disappointing (Paul's phrase not mine).  He 
>   indiacted that they overestimated the demand and because of 
>   this manufacturing discontinued after the first production run.
>   
>   Peter K
>