德國製for China！德国专为中国制造的蔡司Zeiss折叠相机！

SadBear

dachuan 发表于 2017-9-9 09:41
在本网曾见过一台专为伪满洲国制造的蔡司相机，很久了。。。

大川兄，您说的那台满洲国的好像也是我的，嘿嘿。

dachuan

SadBear 发表于 2017-9-9 09:43
大川兄，您说的那台满洲国的好像也是我的，嘿嘿。

没错，就是这台。

昂辉

坛友在安徽发来贺电！

老土豆

What Does "For China" Mean
I've seen a number of Contax and even a Contaflex TLR camera marked "For China" and believe this mark does not really mean what it plainly says. My opinion is that this marking is a factory code that means, "Not for Sale" and particularly in the valuable American market. All the For China marked cameras I have seen have been characterized by very bad workmanship that includes stripped screw holes filled with a type of hole sealant used by the Zeiss factory to light seal these cameras. It just doesn't make any sense that a camera made in a German factory which is supposedly made for the Chinese market would be engraved "For China" in English. If such a camera was intended for the Chinese market and this was something special, the engraving would have to be in Chinese for it to make any sense. The envidence tells me that this marking was applied to a factory second camera to ensure that it could not possibly find its way into the American market.
In order to understand the importance of the American market to Zeiss we have to touch the circumstances in Germany at the time such cameras were being made. At that time the economic inflation rate was high. Germany was secretly militarizing and so dollars were necessary to buy many of the imported materials required to make the Contax and to allow the fabrication of weapons. At that time the international sellers of strategic resouces knew what Germany was doing and so they insisted on cash payment in dollars for military strategic items like chromium, industrial diamonds and oil. The only way for Zeiss to get the necessary dollars was to sell cameras in the U.S.A. So the American market was a lifeline to Zeiss at the time and it was so precious it had to be protected. Zeiss made absolutely certain that only the highest possible quality goods got sent to the USA to ensure this market would remain undistrubed.

有老外认为for China的蔡司相机是质量比较差的二流货，蔡司把质量最好的机器卖到米国市场换取美元来买军事物资，把质量比较差的二流货卖给中国。

CARLZEISSJENA

不是这台相机是德国Zeiss公司专门为中国制造的！

是当时的洋行代理商  打上去

SadBear

老土豆 发表于 2017-9-9 11:00
What Does "For China" Mean
I've seen a number of Contax and even a Contaflex TLR camera marked "For  ...

这种说法很正常，也的确有可能是正确的。

就像有人说日本最好的产品在本土销售，二流产品销往欧美，三流产品才是销售给包括中国在内的其他地区的。

我在意的并非其质量，而是这几个汉字和字母。

SadBear

CARLZEISSJENA 发表于 2017-9-9 11:02
不是这台相机是德国Zeiss公司专门为中国制造的！

是当时的洋行代理商  打上去 ...

这种说法，也是有可能的。谢谢！

不过我觉得那几个汉字可能是洋行所为，目的是用德国货来吸引买家，英文字母未必。

jinqiguang

祝贺楼主得宝。

SadBear

jinqiguang 发表于 2017-9-9 19:22
祝贺楼主得宝。

谢谢！

SadBear

昂辉 发表于 2017-9-9 10:57
坛友在安徽发来贺电！

谢谢您的贺电！