[rollei_list] Re: ZM
- From: Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:20:27 -0500
Carlos,
I would second this. The story is told on the Zeiss website (The
Making of Zeiss Ikon). I have no idea why they show the Contaflex in
chapter 1 and not the Contax IIa or IIIa....
http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B58B9/Contents-Frame/
51174405A82B6ADCC125722900400C68
The references to the classic Contax in the design are too faint in
my eyes. Wonder if Henssler & Schultheiss were actually give a
classic Contax to take their design cues from. There is much more of
a "wanna be Leica" in this design, which really disappointed me when
I first saw the ZM.
They could have picked up some things Leica never had or no longer
has: a mechanical selftimer, the slide-off back, the little finger
wheely for focussing (see how even the Kyocera Contax G2 picked that
up...) and the angled corners that mark all postwar higher end Zeiss
cameras from Contax to Contarex...
Jan
On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:02 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [rollei_list]
It is a new design Thor, Cosina manufactures the camera body and
lenses using a K-8 Zeiss tester machine under Zeiss engineers
supervision, but the new Zeiss Ikon camera was designed from
scratch, Carl Zeiss talked about to contract the camera design with
Porsche Design and Henssler & Schultheiss that designed some Zeiss
Ikon cameras in the past, CZ finally decided to contract Henssler &
Schultheiss to design the camera.If you pay aention about the
camera design, you'll see it has something ressembling Contax II-
IIa design (the silver version specially).-
Carlos
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