Talk:39mm screw lenses

Cosina / Voigtländer info

The Cosina / Voigtländer info that has been added is nice and useful, but imho it would be better placed in the Voigtländer page, that only contains a very basic chronology, or the Cosina page, that contains some very basic information, and is quite insufficient. We could also create a specific Cosina Voigtländer page if desired. --Rebollo fr 04:39, 9 May 2006 (EDT)

I mostly agree, but I'd have a strong preference for Cosina. While Cosina is of course using the "Voigtländer" name legitimately, that's all it is: the use of a name. (Or, since we're dealing in lenses here, the arbitrary/commercial use of names, plural.) Whatever could be said about the new Cosina-made Zeiss lenses, these "Voigtländer" lenses are made and designed by Cosina, and it seems bizarre to add info about them to the page on a company that exists only in name. -- Hoary 09:27, 9 May 2006 (EDT)

Company names too technical

I think we should not be overly technical about the company names. It is true that Topcon only took the name of "Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon" in 1989, long after it had stopped selling cameras and lenses, and that technically it should be named "Tokyo Kogaku". It is also true that Nikon should be called "Nippon Kogaku" before 1988. I think that the technical details about the naming of the companies are interesting, but belong to the company's page. The reader of this page is not specifically concerned, and we can continue to call these lenses "Nikon" or "Topcon" or "Minolta" like everybody calls them. --Rebollo fr 11:25, 10 May 2006 (EDT)