Names of cameras in other contexts

[vpwphoto]

I have a tin box of GE Mazda-- light bulbs (not flash bulbs) for cars from the 1930's.

 

[michaelbsc]

I doubt this.

M seems to stand for medium response time
F for fast response
FP for focal plane (-shutter usability)


This all seems to be about light emittance characteristics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_(light_bulb)

Apparently GE acquired the Mazda name rather than coming up with it in a marketing campaign. Interestingly the Wiki article also has the religious reference.

You could be correct that it means "medium" instead of Mazda, but I researched it about as extensively as one can in a "casual armchair internet fashion" a few years ago. I admit that won't pass academic muster. But I was looking at shutter mechanism information, not light bulb information. Once I found the Mazda connection I had to track down the Persian god reference by myself. But who knows if the Mazda connection I found was right.

(I know it must be true because I found it on the internet!!!)

The "M" was supposedly indicative of flash bulbs with the Mazda style base, what has now become known as a medium style screw base, while the "X" was indicative of the Xenon strobe. I cannot say what shutter manufacturer was responsible for the markings originally.

MB

 

[MDR]

a few camera names

Zorki Mir = Peace or World

Rodina by Moskinap = Motherland or Motherland-National Patriotic Union

Eclair = Lightning or a long cream-filled French pastry

Zenith

and many more

 

[charlief64]

I'm pretty sure Pentax is a surcharge on writing insturments .....

charlie

 

[Steve Smith]

Hasselblad = Hazel Leaf.


Steve.

 

[Wilcoxson David L.]

How about the FED camera? It was built in a factory in the former Soviet Union named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka.

 

[Jim Jones]

I once owned a Zenobia camera. They apparently were in production for fewer years than the reign of Queen Zenobia many centuries ago.

 

[charlief64]

Growing a culture

I wonder if my beloved 1963 Petri was named after Julius Richard Petri, who came up with the lab dish ?

charlie

 

[removed account4]

I wonder if my beloved 1963 Petri was named after Julius Richard Petri, who came up with the lab dish ?

charlie

and i thought it was rob petri(e) from the dick van dyke show

 

[Ottrdaemmerung]

And of course, a canon is piece of music with circular form (e.g., Pachelbel's Canon); or something that is official is referred to as being canon, or canonical.

 

[flatulent1]

Ma-Mamiya!

 

[lxdude]

The Pentax ME... well, it wasn't named after me- if it had been it would be called the LX.

The Nikon F2 was named after the Nikon F... sort of. So was the F3 named after the F2 or the F?

 

[Steve Smith]

So was the F3 named after the F2 or the F?

Yes.



Steve.

 

[lxdude]

Touche'.

 

[Black Dog]

Wasn't Kodak played by Telly Salvalas?

 

[benjiboy]

EOS I was told is the Greek goddess of dawn.

That's true, but in the Canon context it also meant electro-optical system.