Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I posted this some time yesterday, but it didn't seem to get to the list... So, watch it, here it comes again: At 6:01 PM -0400 9/19/00, Martin Howard wrote: >imx jotted down the following: > >> The designer Giorgio Giugiaro said recently that the >> outward expereince of a tool reflects its inner genius of functionality. > >Guigiaro was the industrial designer involved in the F3 project. I guess >that placing the flash sync contacts over the rewind socket was his >contribution of "genius" to that particular project... > >M. > >-- >Martin Howard | >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters >email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------- The flash contacts over the rewind knob bit was Nikon's way of ensuring that the 'removeable' viewfinder wouldn't be so removed by snagging the flash. Earlier Nikons also had it. I think Guigiaro's main contribution to Nikon design was the red stripe, now gone purple in the latest Coolpix 990. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com