david_fields1 Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 'Still in the dark as to where the Zeiss's,Schneider'.s,"Sumilux's" etc. come from.....?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Some of us keep on saying the crappy German kitchen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 <I>Summilux</I> comes from Latin <I>summa</I> and <I>lux</i>. Can't tell you where the others come from. I think they're just names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Fundamentally, they are registered trademarks, that happen to be put on lenses manufactured by, or with the consent of, the owners of those trademarks. These trademark owners happen to be German companies. Eg., a Zeiss lens isn't necessarily made in Germany, or even by the owner of the Zeiss trademark. Just like Ralph Lauren doesn't design everything sold under his trademarks... (By the way, it's Summilux, which is a trademark of Leica Camera AG. No longer affiliated with Ernst Leitz, which spun off the camera company as a drain on their earnings.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 From the Zeiss web site: http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B58B9/allBySubject/34D946E306AF131DC1256A2A00436472 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee hamiel Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 It all started with a character named Zeus & a character named Suess - You may have read the story "A Lens In The Bag" ? They needed a leader to make optics so they called Schneeder (sp); He said - Jeez - Call Zees (sp); and so on the story goes ... It's really not a very good story & there are a lot of questions as to their origins and whether or not it's a true story. In the end they all ponder the sand surrounding them and proclaim "Someday we can sell the beaches to Panasonic" and live happily ever after. For years people speculated as to what they meant by this. Then of course the French tried to intervene ... Seriously - I have a German made Summilux, others have Canadian made Summilux's, I have two Linhof lenses marked Schneider & certain Cambo lenses are made by Schneider - B&W filters are made by Scneider - it's a global market & one never knows exactly what's going on - add to that my Infiniti made by Nissan etc. & if it concerns you then I would suggest only buying lenses made many years ago - good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank granovski Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Achtung, Herr Meister Fotograf. Leica's secret ingredient is Lanthanum. Zeiss, Schneider use something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socke Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 <b>Frang wrote:</b><br> <i>Achtung, Herr Meister Fotograf. Leica's secret ingredient is Lanthanum.</i><br> <br> Ah! So Leica lenses are good for the kidneys<br> <br> <a href="http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=133028">FDA Approves FOSRENOL® Lanthanum Carbonate</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_macklin Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Herr Granovski.Please translate into Polish please.Or maybe Italian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tito sobrinho Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I'd rather have it in Portuguese! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank granovski Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 My mother can translate that from German into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Latin. Yup. 7 languages she taught. She's dying of cancer right now. I video taped her telling some stories from her death bed (to my wife). No pictures today. German was my 1st language but I've pretty much lost most of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy_tok Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 "Lux" means light in Latin. "Summi" I suspect has something to do with "sum" in English or "Summe" in German, which would lead to the Summilux meaning "light collector". "Nocti" means "night" in Latin -- it follows that the Noctilux means "night light". Just my conjecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Summi- Means Highest or Greatest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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