[rollei_list] Re: [good news from DHW Fototechnik] and Photokina 2012 news !
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:56:30 +0100
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On 24 Sep 2012, at 11:40, Bigler Emmanuel <bigler@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 ;-)
> ---
That all sounds like good news. Aquaplaning, I am familiar with as an english
usage, although it is normally only Found in drivers education literature. I
like the term BEAMER.
All the bet
Laurence Cuffe
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