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I WAS LOOKING FOR SO MANY CAMERA THAT ALL LOOKS SO SUCH THE SAME TO ME BUT NO ITS NOT SAME THINK TWICE MAYBE THINK FOUR TIMES HARDER AT THAT ISSURE WHAT ARE THOSE CAMERA MADE WHAT YEAR MODERN WHAT IS IT MADE OUT OF ECT.?? SO I HAD SEVERAL NIKON BODY SLR LIKE NIKON N60 AND NIKON D109 AND CANON EOS GII AND CANON EOS K3 SO I LOOKED AT IT CLOSELY WHET IS IT MADE OF ALL OF IT WAS MADE OF LIGHT PLASTIC AND LIGHT METAL WHICH IS NO GOOD MAYBE THEY ARE POPULAR NOW EVERY WHERE BUT WONT LAST LONG SO I LOOKED INTO FOR OLDER CAMERA THAT HAS 35MM FILM IN IT BUT IS DUBLE DARE SO HARD BODY MADE EVERY THING WORKS PERFECTLY ITS YOIGALANDER BESSA R3A
SO THAT CAMERA IS HARD BODY IT IS GOOD FOR CAMERA BECAUSE THAT MEANS SHUTTER IS STRONGER EVERYTHING IS MOVING GOOD INSIDE NO ONE HEARD ABOUT THAT CAMERA RIGHT BECAUSE ITS GOOD CAMERA LIKE OLD CAR NO ONE HAS THEM VERY RARE 1957 CHEVY IS MY FAVORATE OLD CAR SAME THING AS CAMERA ITS RARE BUT VERY GOOD ALMOST BEST ONE IN WORLD WIDE NUMBER ONE IT WILL RACE THE RACE TO NUMBER ONE BEAT THE RACE NIKON BRAND NAME WILL NOT WIN THE YOIGALANDER BRAND NAME CAUSE NIKON BRAND NAME ARE MADE OF PLASTIC AND METAL WHICH IS NOT STRONG FEEL IT FOR YOUR SELF ITS NOT STRONG THATS WHY NOT VERY CLEAR PITCURES SOME TIMES ITS GOOD NEVER KNOWS HAVE TO WORK WITH IT BUT YOIGALANDER YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORK ADJUST IT DO CHANGE LENS BUT DO NOT HAVE TO WORK TO BE PERFECT LIKE NIKON DOES TRY IT..


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September 23, 2005

 

Jon Close
  Voigtländer was a storied German maker. The original Bessa and Bessa II were folding medium format rangefinders made from the mid-1930's through the 1950's.

http://www.cameraquest.com/voigtsys.htm:
"The new Cosina made Voigtländers have nothing to do with the old German Voigtländers, other than the name. The original German Voigtländer company, founded in 1756, was bought out and disemboweled by Zeiss in the late 1970's. Not long after, Zeiss stopped its own camera production, unable to compete economically with the Japanese (or was it just Karma's revenge for Voigtländer?). I am not sure how, but rights to the trademarked Voigtländer name eventually escaped Zeiss, to Ringfoto in Germany. Cosina (a Japanese manufacturer), successfully arranged to use the time honored Voigtländer name on their new series of Leica screw mount cameras and lenses."


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