[rollei_list] Re: new Zeiss Ikon- a hollow construct?

  • From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:20:03 +0000 (GMT)

Have you tried one of these things Carlos???? It feels like a lightweight Leica 
copy, despite what this marketing b*llshit says. The innards are Cosina, like a 
Bessa or Epson RD1 digital made in the same plant.
OTOH the lenses are great, Zeiss designs made more cheaply, but still well.
Frank


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From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, 7 November, 2009 0:25:28
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: new Zeiss Ikon- a hollow construct?

It's a German camera by design, history, appearance  and quality
control, Carl Zeiss does a second  quality control after to receive
camera and lenses from Japan, where they already were tested with the
Zeiss K8 tester machine; CZ sells them directly.
It looks in general like a modernized and stylized Contax II and like
the Contax II it has the largest rangefinder basis in the market, this
is an excerpt from the CZ website:

"When designing a new camera from scratch, there are virtually endless
options in shaping it. Not every shape, however, is equally useful,
equally successful, equally beautiful, equally affordable. How should
we at Zeiss select the shape for the new Zeiss Ikon camera and for its
lenses?

"Well – the new Zeiss Ikon camera should come with a body that, first
of all, enables positive grip with European size male hands. This, to
us, is a very important requirement, something which seems to be much
less important to many makers of consumer digital cameras and cell
phones.

And the new Zeiss Ikon also should, to a certain extent, resemble the
cameras that made the name Zeiss Ikon famous over many decades in
camera history. It also should be easily differentiated from other
current 35 mm rangefinder cameras, which might be placed next to the
new Zeiss Ikon camera in a dealer’s shop window or on a catalogue or
magazine page."

Carlos

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