Kevin,
I forgot to mention one important thing: SERVICE
Rollei has in Germany a hotline for ANY technical questions from 8am to 8pm. And if you call them, they raelly pick up the phone - no waiting line etc. This is unique in Germany and no other manufactuerer offers this.
If you want to rent a Rollei, you simply call them, tell them to which dealer they shall send it and you then can pick it up there the next day.
Now compare this with Contax. On Contax road shows half of the equipment is not properly working - Remember these are roadshows which are planned 12 months. Normally someone should think as this is an important marketing event, it should be well prepared. But wrong: they are not able to have two bodies of each model in case somethinmg goes wrong. So potential costumers are driving specifically for these roadshows to the next Contax dealer to find out that there is half of it not working
The Contax ND was not working at all. After insisting it turened out that it was the model which was used months (!) ago at another fair. Nobody seemed to care to replace a BROKEN ND for a new road show
Obviously some people do not care about their costumers. But in this case I do not care about giving them my money. I pay their salary, so they should do something also for me as a costumer. There are even more stories to tell you, but I will wait still some time before I publish this on this Contax Community.
As you know, I run this Contax Site, but this does not mean that I am blind for the things which are going on inside at Kyocera, especially if it is no good news for all Contax users/members
Dirk