[rollei_list] Re: Query: Mechancial Cameras
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:35:31 -0400
On Monday, April 11, 2005, at 01:18 AM, David Seifert wrote:
> Yes, but the actual cameras haven't been "made" in decades.
>
> David
Well, they were certainly being made as late as 1999 - see=20
<http://www.cameraquest.com/rusky2.htm>. Their quality seems to be=20
improving as well. The author of this web site, Stephen Gandy, writes=20
(in 2002): "Holy shades of Wetzlar! This fake is so well done that it=20
is not that hard to believe it might have been a son of Wetzlar." And:=20=
"What is astounding about this camera to me is the VERY high quality of=20=
the chrome. It is much higher than I have ever seen on any Russian=20
camera before. In fact, the chrome on this camera is good enough to=20
pass with most people as original Leica! Believe it or don't."
Who knows, some years down the road we may see fake Leicas even BETTER=20=
made than the real ones of yore ...=A0!=A0;-)
Cheers.
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> Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, April 10, 2005, at 08:23 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>> Marc James Small:
>>>
>>>> Now that Leica has apparently abandoned the production of a=20
>>>> mechanical camera, who still makes such? Rollei still cranks out a=20=
>>>> bare few of its TLR cameras but, all in all, who is left?
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>
>>> Cosina Voigtlander, which Rollei, Zeiss and others rebadge as their=20=
>>> own... My my what a long strange journey we are on...
>>
>> Oh, and let's not forget the fake Leicas (including the Luftwaffe,=20
>> SS, gold-plated, etc. "versions") from Russia. They're ALL >> =
mechanical!
>>
>> Cheers.
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