[rollei_list] Re: [good news from DHW Fototechnik] and Photokina 2012 news !
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- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:09:04 +0100
Hi
Do you have any more info on this close-focussing mechanism? I don't there
is any other MF 80mm that can focus to this range?
Chat
On Monday, September 24, 2012, wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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> Emmanuel
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. September 2012 12:40
> An: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>
> Betreff: [rollei_list] [good news from DHW Fototechnik] and Photokina 2012
> news !
>
>
> 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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