Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:54 PM 3/18/2001 +0100, Giorgio Ferrari wrote: >The Voigtländer name dead in the late '50. >Well, Cosina took the Voigtländer name to cover the Cosina name over their >previous products, The Voigtlander name was last used on a production camera in the late 1970's, not the '50's, with the various Voigtlander-derived VSL's from Rollei (well, one of these WAS an outright Voigtlander design). And Cosina did not "take over" the Voigtlander name: they simply licensed it for a small part of their production. I believe all the items sold under the Voigtlander name are separately available as well under the Cosina name. And your Alfa-Romeo and Ferrari analogy is not an apt one, as the actions you speak of occurred while both Alfa and Ferrari were going concerns. The BMW:Rolls analogy is far better. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!