Leigh Youdale
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I've just been told that Cosina have sent a message to their distributors that they have shut down their operations and don't have a clear idea when they can resume deliveries.
Cosina possible slowdown?
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kshapero
South Florida Man
Buy your Bessa's while you can.
Tom A
RFF Sponsor
I think this is related to the power supply being re-distributed to homes and the affected areas. Most of the big industries have shut down too - particularly the power intensive plants. At the moment the "rolling" black-outs are to keep infra structure (trains, heat etc) supplied.
Lets hope that they can get the reactor problems solved and have a chance to go back to "normal" life somehow - in spite of the tragedies and terrible loss of life that has happened.
Lets hope that they can get the reactor problems solved and have a chance to go back to "normal" life somehow - in spite of the tragedies and terrible loss of life that has happened.
Leigh Youdale
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I hope you're right Stephen (as I'm sure others do as well). I was under the impression that the resumption of deliveries you speak of was related to an earlier shortage of stock and now this latest information - if it's correct - relates to the effects of the earthquake.
Time will tell.
Cosina's staff and factories make it thru the earthquake and tsunami OK.
Shipments have resumed.
Happily everything is pretty much back to normal for Cosina's staff and factories.
Stephen
Shipments have resumed.
Happily everything is pretty much back to normal for Cosina's staff and factories.
Stephen
Krosya
Konicaze
Good to hear that they are Ok
kshapero
South Florida Man
Great news from a favorite friends in Japan and our continued prayers for all those still out of service.
dmc
Bessa Driver
The only thing that's odd, and maybe I am not well informed, all the usual places I have checked for CV product (local shops, B&H) are showing out of stock on many of the usual products carried. I find this very unusual.
Cosina maintains its incredibly diverse product line via production runs. Most items are not continuously being produced on the production line. Voigtlander and Zeiss products combined are only a very small part of Cosina's output. The only time Voigtlander products are hard to come by for distributors is between those production runs if the factory temporarily is out of stock, or if a product turns out to be far more popular than anticipated, like the Voigtlander 25/.95 M43 lens. Overall there was no Voigtlander slowdown of deliveries prior to the earthquake. My comment was about deliveries referred to a week's delay due to transportation problems associated with the earthquake.
Stephen
Leigh Youdale
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And there you have it folks. Place your orders and stop worrying!
dmc
Bessa Driver
OK, that clears it up. Thanks guys.
