Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] On the History of Voigtländer
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:08:00 -0500
References: <3AB29F6D.CE4E9619@visi.net> <3.0.6.32.20010317161843.00a3b210@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> <003101c0af2a$d7a25080$2d157a3e@aspire> <3AB487AF.1020FDB8@primus.com.au> <3.0.6.32.20010318131640.0081ccc0@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com>

At 10:59 PM 3/18/2001 +0100, Giorgio Ferrari wrote:
>
>Excuse me, Marc, but the Voigtländer production from '50 to late '70 was a
>lot of fake models with name of Voigtländer, like you know very well.
>
>
>Like Rollei with the Voigtländer name, as you tell me. I think that your
>problem ia a deep hatred for Cosina production due to the use of Voigtländer
>name, without any form of impartiality.
>

What nonsense is this?

The Bessamatic and Ultramatic remained in production until 1968.  Or does
this Ferrari fellow regard these as fake models?

And I have no idea what the second paragraph is supposed to mean.  The only
difference I have with Cosina is one of branding, and I have covered that
sufficiently before this to show that I have a high regard for the quality
of their products and a low regard for their marketing skills.  I am
unaware of any "deep hatred" I might hold, other than that for hats in
general but, on this List, I will keep that one to myself.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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In reply to: Message from Isaac Crawford <isaac@visi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Bessa-T - let me get this straight...)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> ([Leica] On the History of Voigtländer)
Message from "Giorgio Ferrari" <fergio@galactica.it> ([Leica] Re: [Leica] On the History of Voigtländer)
Message from "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@primus.com.au> (Re: [Leica] Re: [Leica] On the History of Voigtländer)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: [Leica] Re: [Leica] On the History of Voigtländer)