Talk:Voigtländer

The CSR model

i tried making a seperate page for this model, since i got one last week and it seemed (to me) different enough to deserve it's own page. However, i cannot get it to work, i removed the re-direct line, but nothing happens. What am i doing wrong? Thanks! (june 9, 2015, René Maly)

Vito CSR doesn't seem to have any history. Either you've forgotten to save your change, or maybe the wiki's had a hiccup, and wasn't able to save it. I have just made a trivial edit to the page, and undone it, just to show that edits are working (now, anyway). Have another go at it! Cheers! --Dustin McAmera (talk) 18:24, 9 June 2015 (CDT)

It occurs to me that maybe you haven't done this to a redirect before; apologies if this is old news to you. You need to go to Vito CSR; click the link above, and the wiki will send you to Vito C because of the redirect; but under the page title, there's the 'Redirected from Vito CSR' message, and if you click that, you'll go to the redirecting page, where you can edit the redirect out. Cheers!--Dustin McAmera (talk) 18:24, 9 June 2015 (CDT)

Ok thanks! Didn't know that... learning all the time!

 :) --Dustin McAmera (talk) 15:08, 14 June 2015 (CDT)

The Camera Designs Behind the "Vito" Model Names

I have noticed that there are two fixed lens types: cameras with the shutter release on top, and those with the shutter release on the front. The ones with the release on top, such as the Vito B, are very tough cameras; and the ones with the release on the front are not so well built. I have examples of both, and I think it may be worth discussing these basics.

Voigtländer History

I've been researching their history for about a year now, and I think I have a decent grasp of how it started and changed over the years. Between Googles poor translations and my limited knowledge of German I do feel there are facts that have become distorted. It is very difficult to pin down the dates and years of the events but the thing that is clear is the events themselves.--RyanR.Warner 09:49, 16 June 2011 (PDT)

Just be sure that what you write doesn't sound like a google translation ;-) I am not really sure what some of your phrasing means, like "classification engine," "commerzienrath protection decree," "Imperial Privolage" etc. --Vox 10:29, 16 June 2011 (PDT)

well I'm still working on finding good links that will describe "Imperial Privolage" and "commerzienrath protection decree" I am unsure how to translate "classification engine" into English. I kind of know what it means in German, but I don't know if I can get it translated properly. A lot of the terminology used back in the 1700's is impossible to translate because of it's age and the manor in which the German Language developed. --RyanR.Warner 10:39, 16 June 2011 (PDT)

Nice to see some early history. So few of the companies we talk about here go back that far (in fact, there are so many that just seem to have appeared, making cameras, with no previous history). I dare say translation of odd old German phrases is something Uwe could help with. Simply from context, your 'Imperial privolage' (privilege, perhaps?) sounds like a monopoly; exclusive right to carry on a certain business within the Empire. If that's what was granted, I think that's how I'd say it in English. Again, your 'protection decree' sounds a lot like a patent, doesn't it? Those 'classification engines' sound like gauges (gages, if you prefer) of some sort, perhaps something similar to Vernier gauges, either for measuring things (e.g. for accurate marking of scales) or maybe the scales themselves, for accurate setting of instruments.

It would be good to spell-check the page a bit. I understand from one of the Help pages that copying stuff into here from a text editing program sometimes causes trouble, but you could try the reverse; copy the content from here into Word, and see what the spell-checker shows up.--Dustin McAmera 07:02, 17 June 2011 (PDT)

I have started editing this from the top down, fairly cruelly. I have left some of the original text there in commented-out form, in case anyone wants to rescue any of it (or you can undo my edits). The remaining text isn't in very good chronological order; I am coming back to do more to it. In particular, the thing about Heidecke seems a bit too pat. Everyone else was coping with the rise of the Nazis and galloping inflation, but Voigtländer's problem was Heidecke leaving? The history seems to stop short at the Second World War. If I can sort that out, I mean to go on and re-jig the classification of the cameras, and put those above the (very sketchy) lenses section. Objections? --Dustin McAmera 15:32, 30 January 2012 (PST)

None from me. Among the parts that you hadn't yet reached was one with an actual source. This had an odd looking URL -- "www.cloudoff.com:8080/showItem/showDetail/10672387.html" -- and I clicked on it. Here it is. Ugh. -- Hoarier 17:37, 30 January 2012 (PST)

Minor layout problem I just introduced

I just added two camera pictures at the top; it seemed silly to try to sum up Voigtländer with just one camera. Anyhow, the three alongside look ok on a wide screen, but if I narrow the window by activating my favourites menu on the left the pictures spill to below the TOC. I note that this would go away if I re-titled the section '35 mm rangefinder, interchangeable lens'; and I might just do that, given that no other section headings are broken down to that much detail. There's quite a lot to be done to the text here, I think, but I don't think I know enough to take it on.--Dustin McAmera 07:47, 21 November 2011 (PST)

We need to add a pronunciation guide

Seriously: no English speaker who doesn't speak German looks at "Voigtländer" and instinctively pronounces it "Foykt-lender." Livestockgeorge (talk) 22:28, 22 May 2018 (CDT)