[rollei_list] Re: Zeiss Ikon OOB in 1971
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:27:32 -0500
At 11:20 PM 7/21/2010, you Marc wrote, in part:
The Pentax electronic shutter was a development
of the Voigtländer electronic shutter gifted to
Asahi as part of their work with the Zeiss Foundation.
I am not attempting to denigrate the many
contributions of Asahi. It still is amusing
that they are the only major camera company to
found their success on lens mounts developed by
other companies -- and, in both cases, the other
company was Zeiss. (So good was the K-Mount
that Pentacon adopted a "flipped" K-Mount for their Praktica B camera line.)
Marc
My Contax RTS has an electronic shutter. Where does it fit into this story?
The story at the time I bought it (gold-plated
demo) is that the lenses were made in Germany
while the bodies were made in Japan. It may have
been that the glass came from Germany but the
final lenses were assembled in Japan. Guess I'll
have to have a look at the lenses to see the country indication.
DAW~
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