[rollei_list] Re: "different types of black boxes" (was: OT / prove it !)

  • From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:02:30 -0700

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Shell" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 8:14 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: "different types of black boxes" 
(was: OT / prove it !)


>
> On Sunday, April 3, 2005, at 08:54  AM, Richard Knoppow 
> wrote:
>
>>  The Contax shutter, AFAIK, was never duplicated in any 
>> other camera.
>
> It was duplicated in the Kiev cameras.
>
> Bob
>
>
  Did not Keiv have use of captured tooling?  The fact is 
that the design of the Contax shutter is very well known but 
no modern camera maker has even tried to use it. OTOH, the 
Leica shutter is the basis of most 35mm cameras.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 


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