Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right, Cosina, I just love their Voigtl?nder lenses - they deliver fantastic quality, which I like, and look good too - which seems to be what you like. They only really shook off their reputation of being a low-end manufacturer after the launch of the Bessas and the Voigl?nder lenses - all because their boss is a great fan of Leica. Alongside their own SLRs and the predecessor of the Lomo (CX-2) Cosina actually produced plenty of reliable but rather basic mainstream cameras for any number of distributor brands or store-brands wanting reasonable quality, entry level equipment - nothing special to look at, but not junky - even for Canon (T60), Nikon (FM10) and Olympus (OM-2000), other lesser known brands they built for were Bauer, Argus, Chinon, Carena, Elicar, Hanking, Exakta, Hanimex, Kenlock, Miranda, Panagor, a whole series for Petri, Ricoh and Vivitar and a couple by the name of Sears. The coup of joining up with the German distributor and store-chain Ringfoto, who owned, and still own the Voigtl?nder brand name (inherited first from Zeiss and then from Rollei), was a brilliant move that certainly rapidly increased the awareness of the "resurrected" brand and got people talking about them before their reputation for high-quality was established Best regards Douglas BTW: If the looks of cameras and lenses make a contribution to great photography it's news to me. But, no matter, I liked the performance AND the looks of the Contax RTS (Porsche Design) in all its guises, but, then again, my favourite camera, and most innovative in its time, is still the Rollei 3003, so that probably doesn't mean much. Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Zeiss are doing it - at least with manual focus SLR lenses with Nikon, >> PK, Canon and M42 mounts. >> >> That such cooperative ventures can work successfully (at least for quite >> a time) was proved by Zeiss and Kyocera (and to a lesser extent by Leica >> and Minolta). >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> > > > Yes the great photographs in our culture taken with the Zeiss and Kyocera > cooperation are well known. > The fact is the camera system appealed to I don't know who. Nobody that I > can think of. > The stuff looked like junk. Especially the lenses which looked like Tokina > glass from the 70's. > > Cosina is an interesting innovated company who does not need to be put in > the same sentence with Kyocera. > Its a shame they seem to think that ANY name is better than their own. > I remember there used to be Cosina SLR's. They were ok. > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >