Yoshihisa Maitani - camera designer? He and his like were known to buy German cameras at Photokina - and with the help of small tools and screwdrivers, disassembled them and drew and sketched their way to 'cheap' Japanese duplication. I saw them all over the place in Köln in the 70's.
These little smurfs never designed anything in their lives. But they copied like hell.
Yes, Mike has a nice blog - but don't glorify the asians in any regard. They created nothing. Everything they accomplished was with German and Western thinking and technology.
What KY says is vaguely true of the '40s and part of the '50s, when the Japanese produced many Leica screwmount copies (ironically, worth more than the originals today), but most innovation in SLRs came from Japan. Then it was the Germans' turn to play catch up, and they've been doing so "continuing to today." All one would have to do to see that clearly would be to trace the development of Leica SLRs. I don't doubt that any decent camera designer looked very closely at the competition, but the Germans never produced anything like the OM-4, and the list of Japanese "firsts" in camera design is far longer than anybody else's.
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ReplyDeleteHe and his like were known to buy German cameras at Photokina - and with the help of small tools and screwdrivers, disassembled them and drew and sketched their way to 'cheap' Japanese duplication. I saw them all over the place in Köln in the 70's.
These little smurfs never designed anything in their lives. But they copied like hell.
Yes, Mike has a nice blog - but don't glorify the asians in any regard. They created nothing. Everything they accomplished was with German and Western thinking and technology.
It continues today.
So far as I know, the west had nothing like the Olympus OM-1 and 2, nor like the Nikon F.
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What KY says is vaguely true of the '40s and part of the '50s, when the Japanese produced many Leica screwmount copies (ironically, worth more than the originals today), but most innovation in SLRs came from Japan. Then it was the Germans' turn to play catch up, and they've been doing so "continuing to today." All one would have to do to see that clearly would be to trace the development of Leica SLRs.
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt that any decent camera designer looked very closely at the competition, but the Germans never produced anything like the OM-4, and the list of Japanese "firsts" in camera design is far longer than anybody else's.
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