Why is Voightlander...

[funkpilz]

I'm German, and I can't imagine ever misspelling Voigtländer. But that's because I know that the letters a and ä are actually very different.

 

[sahe69]

Hm. Strange forum. Isn't it more fun thinking about his daughter?

You're absolutely right. Maybe I shouldn't have drunk that bottle of Rodinal last night.....

 

[jonmanjiro]

I realise a and ä are different letters, but still cannot figure out how to type the ä using my keyboard (in this case I copied the ä from the post above). Alt 132 doesn't seem to work on my keyboard 😕

No problems with Voigtländer vs Voightländer tho. The "h" in the second spelling looks odd to me despite being a native English speaker.

 

[JohnTF]

Hm. Strange forum. Isn't it more fun thinking about his daughter?

Right, but she spells it differently. ;-)

While you are focussing ;-) on spelling-- is there a list of commonly misspelled words of photography?

I generally overlook them in others, as the poor spelling karma is sure to strike me next.

I have also wanted to put an "h" in Voigtlander as well.

I did find some program to download some sort of spell check for posting.

Having good editors (live ones) check your copy sharpens the style a bit, as well as having teachers for mother and grandmother around to correct speech and grammar.

Spell check -- am not sure it helps or hurts -- but it is great for typos.

Regards, John

 

[Roger Hicks]

I was thinking more of the spare h than the presence or absence of the umlaut -- which I left out because almost no-one uses ä and the h.

Odd that although the diaerisis exists in English as a substitute for a hyphen -- re-enact, co-operate -- I can't think of anywhere it's used on an 'a'.

(Cue discussion on how to tie 'ae' in diaerisis...)

Cheers,

R.

 

[Rogrund]

German-speaking friends out there: I guess the initial v in Voigtländer should be pronounced as f?

 

[peterm1]

Doesn't Voightlander really refer to Jon Voight's Land Rover?

I couldn't be. George Costanza owns that - keeps it at his parents place in Queens.

 

[Trius]

R. (or possibly Aaaargh!)

Oh no ... not another pirate thread!!! :bang:

 

[sojournerphoto]

This is turning into a runaway train...

 

[Chris101]

After three veiled references, I feel compelled to link to this.

 

[sojournerphoto]

or this....

 

[JohnTF]

Oh no ... not another pirate thread!!! :bang:

If you know anyone on FB, they have an option at the bottom left to change the language, and one choice is Pirate English, pretty funny, for a while.

John

 

[FrozenInTime]

It's annoyed me for a while not knowing how to use ä without launching the character palette, but no more: on a mac, its :

ä = <option/alt> + <u> then a ( similarly for ë ï ö ü )

 

[johne]

In Micosoft Word, used Insert, Symbol, and umlaut. About as cumbersome as trying to pronounce the result.
johne

 

[Chris101]

On a Mac, type option-u then whatever vowel is next gets an umlaut. (duh.)

Chrïs

 

[DanOnRoute66]

I realise a and ä are different letters, but still cannot figure out how to type the ä using my keyboard (in this case I copied the ä from the post above). Alt 132 doesn't seem to work on my keyboard 😕

No problems with Voigtländer vs Voightländer tho. The "h" in the second spelling looks odd to me despite being a native English speaker.

With most Microsoft operating systems, you can choose to use "United States-International English" for making umlauted (is that a word, native German-speakers?) ä's, ü's and ö's.

 

[historicist]

In Word, shift+control+: and then a (or e, etc. etc.). Or just write ae, which is correct as the two dots used to be a little e written above the letter.

Or just write Voigtlander 😉

 

[JohnTF]

Finally resolution, I just saw this listing:

Vintage-Voighander Dynamatic-35mm Camera



Maybe a cousin?

John

 

[rpsawin]

It's a marketing ploy designed to keep the brand name "Voigtlander" constantly in your thoughts. It seems to be working rather well...

Bob

 

[Dunk]

When in John Lewis last week I piched up an Olympus brochure and was rather dismayed to see a reference to a "lense" ... it's spreading ... but why? Keep words as short as possible - it saves ink!

Cheers

dunk