[rollei_list] Re: OT: 35mm RF (Cosina) now Ford
- From: Choiliefan@xxxxxxx
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:00:37 EDT
In a message dated 4/18/2006 5:51:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
tlegvold@xxxxxxx writes:
Marc,
thanks for the clarification. What about addressing my original
question(s)? :-)
Cheers,
Thor
On 18 Apr, 2006, at 21:33, Marc James Small wrote:
> At 09:03 PM 4/18/06 +0200, Thor Legvold wrote:
>> Well,
>>
>> thanks again to everyone who helped me learn more last year about a
>> replacement for my friends Minox GT. They got a Bessa R3a and a 40/1.4
>> to go with it a while back. I was over at their place recently and
>> helped them go through it and get to know it - wow what a really nice
>> camera!
>
> This is not a Voigtländer Bessa. It is a Cosina 35mm camera. The
> purchase
> of the rights to the Voigtländer trademarks by Cosina -- lost to
> Rollei in
> its bankruptcy, incidentally -- no more makes a Cosina camera a
> Voigtländer
> than would Ford placing the Jaguar name on its Taurus make that car an
> XKE.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My buddy in CA drives a five year old XK-S. His radiator expansion bottle
blew up once idling in traffic. That HAS to count for something in
establishing
a definate lineage or link between Lyons and Ford.
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