Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Voigtlander Heliar 15mm - carrying case?
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:11:43 -0700

on 18/1/00 4:00 pm, Marc James Small at msmall@roanoke.infi.net wrote:

> At 08:59 PM 1/17/2000 EST, ZaaX@aol.com wrote:
>> I recently bought a Voightlander Heliar 15 mm lens
> 
> Bloody Hell.  How OFTEN do we have to go through this?  There is NO "h" in
> Voigtlander.  Both family and factory asked that the name be spelled
> "Voigtlander" in typefaces lacking an umlaut.  Though there is no longer a
> Voigtlander factory, this is still the family's position.  Please honour
> it:  it IS their name!
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
> 
I hope you will not have a heart attack Marc but I recently saw an ad from
Cosina and in HUGE letters they had added the dreaded "H".

John Collier