There's something wrong with this lens

[xkaes]

 

[Donald Qualls]

Is this a quiz question?

 

[AnselMortensen]

Got it immediately.

 

[Rayt]

Typo or alternate spelling?

 

[Marcelo Paniagua]

I suppose the spelling? Also there seems to be chip at around 7 o'clock but not sure if that what the OP means.

Need my coffee.

 

[markjwyatt]

I guess it is not OK, eh?

 

[Huss]

Full of dust and scratches.

 

[BrianShaw]

Hilarrious

 

[faberryman]

You can have your very own copy for $680. "Extreme rare misprint."

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Do you ever think there may be something wrong when you can immediately identify the misspelling on a camera lens.

 

[Marcelo Paniagua]

Remind me of those plastic cameras on the 90s and early 2000s, that said Cannon, Nikkonn, Fiji, etc.

 

[gone]

Remind me of those plastic cameras on the 90s and early 2000s, that said Cannon, Nikkonn, Fiji, etc.

I actually bought one of those for $4 at a yard sale. It was new and still in the box. Never could get up the courage to put film in it and walk around taking pics.

My tiny, key-chain 110 camera was better for walk abouts, although once a couple stopped to stare as I was setting up a shot outside and using a coffeehouse table for a "tripod". They probably had no idea there was even a camera on that table!

 

[AgX]

But those were intended to fool customers without copying the original name. (Though there were legal cases even against more vague brand names.)


In this case though it is a mis-gravure.
But I wonder how that happened. I assumed for such gravure ready-made templates were used as far as possible, as "Minolta" and "Auto-Rokkor" and not single-letter templates. Was such word-template erroneous? Or were really letter templates used and for a certain engraving run someone set-up the letters incorrectly?

 

[Don_ih]

Does it make any less sense than "Rokkor"? Maybe this is the only time they spelled it correctly.

 

[AgX]

This thread better belongs into the collectors forum. I mean, who cares, other than collectors?


Don, you hit the point. At least from my insignificant perspective. When I first learned of the term "Rokkor" I wondered about this word. (More so as in German no "kk" exists.) And yes, to me it could be "Rokor" either.

 

[Don_ih]

Anyway, everyone knows it should be "Rocker"

 

[xkaes]

Hey, at least it doesn't appear to have any yelowing.

 

[AgX]

For those as ignorant on Minolta stuff as me:

Rokkor was a brand name used for all Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō and later Minolta lenses between 1940 and 1980,[1] including a few, which were marketed and sold by other companies like Leica. The name was derived from the name of Rokkō (六甲山), a 932 metre (3058') high mountain, which could be seen from the company's glass-making and optics factory at Mukogawa near Osaka, Japan.[1] The company's founder Kazuo Tashima [ja] wanted the name to symbolize the high quality in optics.
(Wikipedia)

 

[Sirius Glass]

Maybe 'K's were expensive at the time and the manufacturer needed to save money.

 

[ic-racer]

I watched a video on how those engravings were made. It seems it could be just as easy to make a mistake setting up the machine as it would be to make a mistale tipneing.

 

[Chuck1]

I actually bought one of those for $4 at a yard sale. It was new and still in the box. Never could get up the courage to put film in it and walk around taking pics.

My tiny, key-chain 110 camera was better for walk abouts, although once a couple stopped to stare as I was setting up a shot outside and using a coffeehouse table for a "tripod". They probably had no idea there was even a camera on that table!

Best ever yard sale find

 

[Donald Qualls]

I've read that at times Minolta sold Rokkor lenses and Rokor lenses intentionally, in different markets. Identical in every way except the engraving on that trim ring...

 

[AgX]

To me this is the most plausible explanation so far. But in the end truth decides...

 

[xkaes]

To me this is the most plausible explanation so far. But in the end truth decides...

"I've read that at times" is "the most plausible"?

I'm glad you won't be on my jury.

 

[AgX]

I watched a video on how those engravings were made. It seems it could be just as easy to make a mistake setting up the machine as it would be to make a mistale tipneing.

That way it is done at custom workshop as Grimes, but unlikely at mass production, where I assume readymade templates per lens model were made or at least arranged.

 

[xkaes]

I actually bought one of those for $4 at a yard sale. It was new and still in the box. Never could get up the courage to put film in it and walk around taking pics.

If you bought one of these SLR-wannabees for $4, you could impress some people -- and get a good laugh out of others -- WIN-WIN!!!

It has lead weights inside -- no kidding -- to give it some "heft".