[rollei_list] AW: [good news from DHW Fototechnik] and Photokina 2012 news !
- From: <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:02:36 +0000
Emanuel,
you remember when we both visited Rollei (or how it was called at that time)
and they showed us the mechanism to achieve a short distance focus on the
Tele-Rolleiflex (which was developed by a Russion engineer they had hired)?
I think for the 2,8 FX-N they integrated the same mechanism.
Second and most important:
They need to achieve contracts with Leaf or whom else to get digital backs for
the HY6!
Third:
I want a TLR with digital back.
Fourth:
I want a 35 with digital sensor.
Regards
Dirk
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Le 24/09/2012 11:11, Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx a écrit :
> Well, I also saw the new website. Reason that now all lenses are
> marked "Apogon" maybe the following: DHW just did not get or was not
> able/willing to pay the license fee to Zeiss for using their brand
> names for the lenses. Maybe the license Zeiss granted to Rollei is
> still hold by "Rollei", not by DHW. And the negotiations to use the
> brand names came out with a negative result. So I believe they exactly
> continue to make the same lenses as under Zeiss brand name but mark
> them Apogon. As all patents are expired, they of course can just
> continue to make the lenses. Dirk
Hello all, hello Dirk
The reasons invoked by Dirk are excellent and are not in contradiction with the
use of non-Zeiss lens designs as well.
For example, a look at the schematic diagram for the SLR / 7-element 80mm
apogon (available on the new web site) shows that this is not the Zeiss design.
Speaking about DHW : I was at the photokina in Cologne last Saturday
22/9/12 and Sunday 23/9/12. I can tell you that I am not at all coming back
with the idea that everybody is now taking pictures with mobile phones (called
"Handy" in Germany **see note 1 below) or computer-tablets.
Reason #1 is obvious when you queue in the morning before the opening of gates,
you cannot imagine that all people coming there have no interest in
photography, except taking pictures with mobile phones.
Reason#2 is obvious when you come back from this famous trade show:
the number of manufacturers for tripods and ballheads is simply amazing !!! So
far, I've never seen a mobile phone or a tablet taking pictures firmly secured
with a ballhed on a tripod : coming soon ?
;-);-)
Coming back to DHW : I did not have time or did not dare to start a
conversation with the DHW people, but there were lots of people at their booth.
Everything was there on display like 2 years ago, the whole TLR line, the 600x,
and the HY-6-2. Plus a few niew things.
I saw the new 2,8FX-N TLR with an Apogon-branded name, and the 55cm minimum
focusing distance. So far the only disctinctive feature visible from outside of
the 2,8FX N is a "tulip-shaped" lens hood ; I have no idea why they introduced
this kind of hood usually associated with zooms, instead of the good ol' solid
square lens hood ;-)
Coloured Rollei-35 cameras with mirror-polished chrome top body were on
display, and our beloved SONNAR 2.8 - 40 mm now is called Apogon as well. I
doubt that this is a new design, hence Dirk's explanation is the right one.
** note 1 : in Germany, you'll hear many English-sounding words, like
in French. Some of them are the genuine English words with the same
meaning. Some other words look like English, but nobody uses them
outside the German-speaking world or the French-speaking word. My
favourite are, in German : the Handy for cellular or mobile phone
(OK this is true German, Hand is ... hand) and : BEAMER, for a
video-projector ;-) In French the most infamous Frenglish words
are: "tennisman" for a tennis-player, "caméraman" for a
movie-camera operator, and, the worst of all horrors,
"aquaplaning", an absurd barbarism, this is when your car begins to
slip totally out of control on a very wet road ;-)
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