Germany has an prolonged historic previous of producing quite a lot of the best cameras and lenses ever to appear throughout the historic previous of pictures, nonetheless German mannequin names usually is a bit robust to pronounce. On this 8.5-minute video, photographer Maximilian Heinrich of Analog Insights shares the native German speaker’s pronunciation of some well-known producers.
Heinrich says that his channel recently obtained a comment from a German speaker who wasn’t fully pleased {{that a}} video had used English pronunciations of positive mannequin names.
“Why do you pronounce German lens names with [a] fallacious English pronunciation? Summilux, Biogon, that is ridiculous,” the commenter wrote. “The reality that this channel is in English isn’t any motive the least bit to pronounce names incorrectly. Fairly the other, you may do your English-speaking viewers a considerably higher service in case you, as a German native speaker, would pronounce historic lens names appropriately in its place of confirming their fallacious pronunciation.”
Heinrich decided to reply to the critique by making this new pronunciation video.
“Whereas any such comment hurts me pretty a bit as a fragile specific particular person and whereas it was moreover not phrased in an excellent method, I do think about it may very well be attention-grabbing to hear how Schneider Kreuznach and all the other German lens names and pronunciations that you just simply hear available on the market are actually pronounced,” he says.
Using a Litton Royal 202 Typewriter, Heinrich then steps by the use of the following mannequin names, sharing the German method to say them as well as to some attention-grabbing tips on positive points that often journey people up:
- Carl Zeiss
- Schneider Kreuznach
- Voigtländer
- Rollei
- Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke
- Rodenstock
- Adox
- Agfa
- Plaubel
- Leica Leitz Camera Wetzlar
- Noctilux, Summilux, Summicron, Summaron, Elmar, Elmarit, Thambar, Telyt
- Minox
- Planar, Tessar, Sonnar, Distagon, Biogon
- Praktica
- Exakta
- Meyer Optik Görlitz
As an illustration, Voigtländer doesn’t sound like voit-land-er nonetheless fookt-lend-a. Rollei doesn’t sound like roll-e, nonetheless hole-eye. Summicron doesn’t sound like sue-me-cron or some-e-cron nonetheless fairly zoomy-khon. And Biogon doesn’t sound like bio-gone, nonetheless bee-oh-goan.
Be aware, though, that there are numerous digital digicam phrases available on the market which could be usually pronounced in various strategies (e.g. ‘Nikon‘ and ‘bokeh‘), notably when phrases or names cross worldwide borders. And for some phrases (like “Nikon”), the official stance is that “all regional pronunciations all around the world are equally applicable.”
