Talent? Talent?? Talent???
I thought this was a discussion about the size of the tool, where did talent come from?
As if Minolta was bad.
Yawn.
You sure sound like a camera information God. Besides being a camera fanboy, is talent following?
I've been thinking about this question. I can't address the 120 film TLR part but it seems to me that the Germans were out of the 35 mm gear for professionals by the mid-'70s and that Japanese-made 35 mm gear for professionals didn't start bulking up until practical AF came in. And the Germans are completely out of 35 mm SLR-like digital cameras for pros market.Why did the physically smaller Japanese come up w/such big, heavy Pro equipment (Nikon, Mamiya), while the bigger Germans came up w/smaller, lighter equipment (Leica, Rollei)?? (And there's no racism in my question)
Why did the physically smaller Japanese come up w/such big, heavy Pro equipment (Nikon, Mamiya), while the bigger Germans came up w/smaller, lighter equipment (Leica, Rollei)?? (And there's no racism in my question)
Pentax MX is Japanese, as is the Nikon FG. They are quite small by SLR standards - especially when compared with the German Leica R series of SLRs.
Steve.
As if Minolta was bad.
Yawn.
You sure sound like a camera information God. Besides being a camera fanboy, is talent following?
Medium format wise, I've always wondered how Leica never got to Manufacture a 6x6 120 RF. I get the sense that in the 50s it was about folding cameras, and perhaps the popular movement towards 35mm deemed it a non explored area. Curiously it took until the 80s-90s? To have such kind of camera as the Mamiya 6/7, etc.
A fixed/interchangeable MF RF, akin to an M camera, just grown for 120 might have found a nice niche itself.
I found it curious how the "Leica-Contax style RF" didn't appear until the 60s or so in Medium Format (but late for 6x6). while I was researching for a Fuji GW. We get a Fuji Texas Leica, but no leica itself.
I am afraid that we will go off topic of original posting, but ...
Best nikon is F3, then F. I had those FM's and FE's - not as good as F3 and F. I had F2 as well - sold it - original F feels better. I used in past almost all nikons (except F4, F5, F6 and FM3A) and F3 is the best.
About FM/FE --> If you are shooting B&W and printing in the darkroom, full frame - then you start to appreciate 100% viewfinder.
Where are your pics? In which photography exhibitions can I find them?
Ok OK I don't want to provoke the F3 fanboys! I disengage from the F2 vs F3 debate!
I don't know, I let others judge...but let's talk about YOUR talent, I'm too humble to boast.
Where are your pics? In which photography exhibitions can I find them?
None of the Leica R cameras was made in Japan by Minolta, just a simple fact. Some R lenses were made there, fine lenses I must say.
All I know is that When people look at my prints, I really enjoy the part when they fall back, look at me with a blank face and ask "it's really your work?"
And I answer "if you have a week of your life to spare, I'll let you look at my whole body of work"
... Olympus is also pretty small...the Germans used to make big SLRs while the Japs started the miniaturisation of the SLRs in the 70s with the big O. ...
If you say so we believe it...assembled in Portugal or Germany from parts made in Japan sounds more acceptable? However, 99% of the engineering work was done in Japan, not in Leitz, where they "dressed up" the XD in different disguise, or are we also denying that shutter was made by Copal?
Anyway we already went through this in another thread, the topic here is "why Germans design small cameras and Japanese are just capable of making big cameras?" so the Leica R4-7 argument is invalid because it's a japanese camera customized for Leitz.
Still I don't see your pics on this board so I can't appreciate your Talent. Out of curiosity do you also have a policy of not posting your pics online and reserve the right to call those who do "bad photographers" like another member of this board that keeps on posting on this thread without adding a thing to the discussion?
NB23 posts from time to time pictures of prints here in some threads - they are very very good.
Minolta ceased production of their XD-7 / XD-11 in 1984, but Leitz continued with their R6.2 for another 18 years, so the few internal parts that the companies shared must have been produced by Leizt later on. Not to mentions the exterior, the winding mechanism, motor drives, light meter, mirror box, etc that were totally unique to Leica form the very beginnings.
NB23 posts from time to time pictures of prints here in some threads - they are very very good .
Most of the Leica R cameras are particularly small.
Yes they are. But this is what happens on the internet: a festival of misinformations
Indeed: there are still people who think the R3,4,5,6 and 7 were made by Leica and not by Minolta!!!
You sure sound like a camera information God. Besides being a camera fanboy, is talent following?
That's completely invented as all the suppliers, especially Copal, were Japanese based.
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