I don't know if the Voigtlander name has helped much. I doubt that many photographers under 50 had even heard of Voigtlander before CV revived the name. I bet the paid Zeiss a lot for it too, maybe in stock.
Ciao, Graywolf ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 3:31 PM Subject: Re: New Manual, All Mechanical, Retro-Rangefinder > CV is now improving their bodies. There seems to be a good, long-term > marketing plan going on, with frequent incremental upgrades in quality > and features, and the company seems to listen to what customers want. > > Also, CV is much more a system camera than the Konica. There are > numerous accessories available for the CV cameras, from finders to > meters to a plethora of lenses. And, the thing that's really nice is > that, for the most part, these accessories work on Leicas, Konicas, and > other older and obsolete RF bodies. > > The CV was produced in such a way as to be first be an entry-level > camera, and, step by step, they've been upgrading and adding lenses and > accessories that are compatible over a wide range of platforms. For > example, there have been problems with Leica lens compatibility on the > Konica Hexar RF. Such is not the case with the CV. In fact, the > cameras are designed in such a way as to make better use of older Leica > lenses than even Leica has done on the M models. > > The CV is a system in its infancy, but it is a strong player in its > chosen market. The Konica is limited in many ways, although I'll grant > that the body is better than earlier CV offerings. Yet, it's the CV > products that are being purchased by Leicaphiles and neophytes alike > while the Konicas sit on the shelves. Why? Because the product is > better suited to the market and the needs of the consumer base. And, I > believe it would be successful even if it were Joe Bob's Rangefinder > Kamera Kumpany ... although the Voigtlander name may have helped. > > "Paul F. Stregevsky" wrote: > > > > Reputation is everything. It is questionable whether Cosina would have so > > successfully broken into the RF market had it not bought the rights to the > > Voigtlander name. Konica did it because it had a heritage in RFs. > > > > Both companies make outstanding modern RF lenses; I'd call Konica's body > > outstanding, but not Cosina's. > > -- > Shel Belinkoff > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ > You can't have everything. Where would you put it? > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
