[rollei_list] Re: OT: Nikon and Leitz Lenses
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- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:35:54 +0000
Why is it no one has mentioned the 23 x 34 mm Nikon?
Ed Meyers
-------------- Original message from Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
Marc, if I answer some points of your message below, it would be an endless discussion and then I don't answer them again, I mentioned yesterday one of some books on the topic written by American researchers, I add now "Nikon Story" by the Italian author Pierpaolo Ghisetti, where he explains the way German technicians helped Nippon Kogaku to design and to build the prototypes
> (Camerabooks, in Italian).
> BTW firsts Nikon cameras were an unashamed Contax and Leica copies within the same unit (external design "is a Contax facsimil" wrote Jacob Deschin for NYT) and firsts Nikkor lenses were derived from German designs, but it does not mean they were bad copies, Nippon established very tight tolerances and severe
> quality control.
> Sometimes you can't control the way different topics are connected, we started talking about Capa's cameras and we are talking about Nikon story now, BTW it's not topic for this forum, but a photographic topic anyway. Discussions can be
> passionate, I think there were no "ad hominem" reasonings this time.
> Thank you.
>
> Carlos
>
> --- El lun 28-sep-09, Marc James Small escribió:
>
> > We got way off-base on this
> > discussion and I was as much a sinner as were other
> > particpants.
> >
> > This is not the forum for a discussion of the issue of the
> > virtue of miniature-format lenses in the Korean War.
> > That is a topic for the Leica Users' Group or the
> > Rangefinder Forum or the Zeiss Ikon Collectors' Group or the
> > Internet Directory of Camera Collectors. That issue
> > has appeared on those fora from time to time and the real
> > experts on the topics can be found there.
> >
> > Carlos, I apologize for getting very testy with you.
> > In my view, you are buying the sort of after-the-fact
> > justification used by criminals when they come to
> > trial. I see Nikon as an evil entity based on theft
> > and have no regard for giving any credence to the false
> > claims of criminals. You see it differently. I
> > know that you honestly accept the Nikon claims. So be
> > it: again, I am sorry for being testy, and let us just
> > agree to disagree. I got out of line.
> >
> > In any event, this is an issue better raised on the IDCC or
> > the LUG or the ZICG. I am sorry for feeding the
> > frenzy. And I am most sorry for being rude to Carlos,
> > a valued member of our number.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> >
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