{"id":6348,"date":"2013-03-09T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:07:41","slug":"fraternal-twins-leica-and-minolta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6348","title":{"rendered":"Fraternal twins? Leica and Minolta (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the uproar over\u00a0Hasselblads Lunar\u00a0rebranding\u00a0of the Sony\u00a0Nex7\u00a0I\u00a0thought i\u00a0would point out that this sort of thing has been going on for a long time. Many cameras have been released under different names. It&#8217;s been mentioned on the Internet how many parts the Minolta Freedom Escort and the Leica\u00a0Mini share but a visual comparison is always nice. (Update the Olympus AF Mini is part of this litter)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-6349\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2067.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6349\" title=\"_K7_2067\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2067.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2067.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2067-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-6350\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6350\" title=\"_K7_2070\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2070.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2070.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2070-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-6351\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6351\" title=\"_K7_2078\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2078.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2078.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/K7_2078-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Update this post has been sitting written and ready to post for over six months it just got pushed to the back. I could have removed the no longer topical reference to the Hasselblad but that camera is still funny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-8143\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lunarcy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8143\" alt=\"Lunarcy\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lunarcy.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lunarcy.jpg 273w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lunarcy-150x105.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wait it&#8217;s triplets!\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drewboom\/\">Drewboom<\/a> pointed out to me the Olympus Trip AF Mini was seperated from these two at birth and it definetely shares major parts with its siblings.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-8359\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Olympus_Trip_mini-9184.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8359\" alt=\"Olympus_Trip_mini-9184\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Olympus_Trip_mini-9184.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Olympus_Trip_mini-9184.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Olympus_Trip_mini-9184-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Olympus_Trip_mini-9184-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the uproar over\u00a0Hasselblads Lunar\u00a0rebranding\u00a0of the Sony\u00a0Nex7\u00a0I\u00a0thought i\u00a0would point out that this sort of thing has been going on for a long time. Many cameras have been released under different names. It&#8217;s been mentioned on the Internet how many parts the Minolta Freedom Escort and the Leica\u00a0Mini share but a visual comparison is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[142,77],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-leica","tag-minolta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8147,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}