Completely Frivolous But Hopefully Amusing Topic

[KoNickon]

Nominations for funniest camera, lens, or other equipment names (non-English speakers may have entries I wouldn't have considered):

Feinmess ("Mess" has a very different meaning in English: "Another Feinmess you've gotten us into, Stanley")

Dogmar (is it really a dog of a lens?)

Dagor ("Is this a Dagor I see before me?" from the Scottish Play)

What else do you have?

 

[--s]

doogs and doorx, sound like the name of an english pub.....

 

[bonatto]

Never quite cared for the Leica lens hood and other accessory names, and often find myself trying to read them out loud

VALOO

XOOQG

XOONS

SOOPD

🙂

 

[rwintle]

I enjoy the Taron Promaster, which sounds like a Manga superhero.

Also the Super Westomat 35, which sounds like some kind of 1950's washing machine.

 

[Muggins]

Anyone British of a certain age will be amused by NOOKY. In fact, you can't beat a bit of NOOKY!

Adrian

 

[mfogiel]

Nothing can beat this incredibly ugly car:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toyota_Caldina_van.jpg
The Toyota executives probably tried to compensate this ugliness, with some italian sounding name, BUT in italian, "caldina" translates like " a half warmed up lady"...
Another funny name, not to spit in the bartender's plate, is "Cosina", which in the language of Dante means: "the little thing" (feminine)...
And to conclude "Skopar" has clear connotations with sexual intercourse...
😱

 

[Greyscale]

Konica Tomato

http://youtu.be/GmJdfzC3xI4

 

[Spavinaw]

I always think of a Wollensak tied up with a Rolleicord.

 

[Chris101]

I always think of a Wollensak tied up with a Rolleicord.

I'm just glad Wollensak didn't number their lenses with letters the way Nikkon did. Because then you could end up with a S-Wollensak.

 

[oftheherd]

Anyone British of a certain age will be amused by NOOKY. In fact, you can't beat a bit of NOOKY!

Adrian

Sadly, Americans don't even need to be of a certain age.

I always think of a Wollensak tied up with a Rolleicord.

That's a good one. Did any early Rolleicords have Wollensak lenses? They acutally weren't a bad lens.

 

[Dralowid]

SOOKY beats NOOKY hands down...

Nothing to do with cameras...

Did you hear about the Italian utilities company called POWERGEN ITALIA?

Apparently they originally called themselves POWER GENITALIA...

 

[KoNickon]

I'm just glad Wollensak didn't number their lenses with letters the way Nikkon did. Because then you could end up with a S-Wollensak.

Oh, very good. Not enough NOOKY, no doubt.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

I always think the Voigtlander VAG has a great name.
That and the Olympus OMG.

Phil Forrest

 

[Lauffray]

I love this forum 😀 😀

 

[Crazy Fedya]

I always think the Voigtlander VAG has a great name.
That and the Olympus OMG.

Phil Forrest

Yes, and it is very good, that Voigtlander stuck with their V's, when they came out with Avus.

 

[Travis L.]

Pleasant Auto-Up Super Nooky! FTW

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pleasant-Auto-Up-Super-Nooky-Universal-B-10605-/310405947709

 

[shadowfox]

In the dialect that I speak when I grew up, "Dagor" means bumping your head against something (wall, bulkhead, garage door, what have you). I always chuckle inside when I hear that.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

In the dialect that I speak when I grew up, "Dagor" means bumping your head against something (wall, bulkhead, garage door, what have you). I always chuckle inside when I hear that.

Every time I work under the hood of my 1972 Mercedes, I "dagor" on the grille which sticks down to the perfect height for head injury.

Phil Forrest

 

[ssmc]

I have never been accused of having a high-brow sense of humour 😉 so here we go:

The Rectaflex Gold sounds like hemorrhoid ointment, but as for the Rectaflex Rotor and Rectaflex Junior, well...

The Ernemann Tropical Klapp never fails to make me smirk (the editor asterisked out the word I originally typed)

And if you're an Aussie, then the Agfa Clack would have to be up there (so to speak) - judging from the entries on urbandictionary.com it appears that it doesn't work that way in other countries (here it is almost universally understood as a slang term for the "fundamental orifice")

LOL this thread gave me a smile

 

[Rodchenko]

I can't think of my Paxette without Dr Feelgood coming to mind.