[rollei_list] Re: [good news from DHW Fototechnik] and Photokina 2012 news !
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:09:36 -0400
This version of the Apogon
http://komamura.co-site.jp/Rollei/e/pd/28FX.html
appears to be very similar to the classic 80/2.8 TLR Planars
Eric Goldstein
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>> 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 ;-)
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