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eggboy
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 Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: Link to blog post about a tour of the Cosina factory |
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eggboy wrote:
Hi All,
Interesting post about one of the few companies still actually designing and producing manual focus lenses.
http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/05/04/cosina-lens-and-camera-factory-tour-report/
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| ...you pass through to the next room you are faced with an amazing collection of drill presses, unused jigs, lathes and 4-5 skilled craftsmen busily working brass blanks and parts runners pulling various machine parts from racks. The atmosphere is one of a very high precision workshop full of people who could create virtually anything out of a blank block of metal... |
Off the top of my head, Cosina (who make the Voigtlander cameras and lenses, the Zeiss rangefinder and most of the Zeiss M mount lenses, and the Zeiss SLR lenses, the Fuji 6x7 folder, the manual focus Nikon FM10 bodies and more...) and Leica are just about the only ones committed to manual focus. And Cosina and their CEO Kobayashi-san actually make some products I can afford!
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Eugene
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Orio wrote:
Zeiss is still building lenses too. Not all of their production takes place in Japan.
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eggboy
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eggboy wrote:
That's right!. They do make one or two of the ZM rangefinder mount lenses...are there any Zeiss lenses produced by Zeiss in Germany for mere mortals?
I know they make those incredible cinema Prime lenses, plus some medium format lenses? I'd have to sell my car and probably my child to afford those...
Eugene 
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Nikkor S.C 5cm/1.4 Rangefinder with Amadeo S>M Mount
Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 5cm/2 Contax RF c. 1937,
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Nikon Z 6II, Panasonic GX8
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Abbazz
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Abbazz wrote:
Thanks for the link, Eugene, this blog is very interesting. I also noticed the Fujifilm GF670 "monster Leica" review:
http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/06/25/fujifilm-gf670-professional-goes-monsoon/
I start feeling the itch for this big folder. Too bad, wife and car already sold 
Cheers!
Abbazz
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LucisPictor wrote:
Thanks for the links!
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Schnauzer wrote:
Interesting links. Thanks.
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