[rollei_list] Cosina Voigtländer Med Format
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:42:50 -0700
Especially if the lenses did not cost a kings ransom. I think (IMO) that was
one of the reasons for its demise. They had AF, nice camera. but the cost of
the lenses?! Wow! Made Mamiya look cheap.
Peter K
On 9/27/05, Bob Shell <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've gotten to know Kobayashi-san pretty well. We've had private
> meetings at photokina, other photo shows, and in hotel rooms. He is
> above all a photography enthusiast, and loves to make exactly the toys
> that he wants to play with. It's wonderful that he can make enough of
> a profit on this "hobby" to keep going at it. He loves photography --
> film photography. His distaste for digital is strong.
>
> However, tooling up for something in medium format would be a very
> costly venture for his relatively small company. I don't really expect
> to see him do anything other than 35mm, unless perhaps Zeiss wants to
> fund the project to put the Contax 645 II into production via Cosina.
> That could be interesting.
>
> Bob
>
> On Tuesday, September 27, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Jan Decher wrote:
>
> > I agree of course. But whenever I get frustrated about the demise of
> > these beautiful medium format cameras (now even the boldly conceived
> > Contax 645), I look at what Mr. Kobayashi at Cosina is doing with his
> > revival of "Voigtländer" rangefinders and all those classy looking
> > lenses (even Nikon and Contax RF mount lenses, SLR lenses in stunning
> > "Contarex finish" and the odd revival of the chrome Topcon 1.4/58 on
> > an all-mechanical chrome M42 "Bessaflex").
> > To me looking at the Cosina Website
> > (http://www.cameraquest.com./index.htm) is like leafing through my
> > 1955 catalog from Foto Schaja, Munich.
> >
> > And Cosina got enough attention to have now been commissioned to built
> > an M-mount rangefinder for Carl Zeiss, which will bring back fully
> > mechanical Zeiss lenses like the Biogon, Sonnar etc. at half the price
> > of Leica lenses. A nice endorsement I think.
> >
> > In some ways we should all be supporting such a visionary program. Who
> > knows what Kobayashi is up to next: revival of the elegant vertical
> > postwar Exakta 66 with CZ Tessar perhaps - this time with reliable
> > Japanese mechanics... ;-)
>
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