On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:04:23 -0700, "Howard Lester"
wrote:


What you are showing are the real Zone VI boards. I have the same boards for
my camera that was made in 1989. There was an earlier "Zone VI" that is
really a Wista. Perhaps that is the camera owned by the other fellow.

Howard

Nope. Mine was made in '95. Got it right before Fred sold out
to Calumet.I believe that there were actually 3 Zone VI cameras. The
Wista's as you mention, the ones that Ron Wisner evidently designed
and built, and the last Zone VI cameras which I believe were modified
by a Russian engineer that Fred hired. I met this engineer along with
Brooks Brown at the Photo Expo show in NYC.

Quoting Wisner "You can tell we built it because the nameplate
says “Built by Wisner Classic Mfg. Co., Inc. for Zone VI Studios”"

Evidently he created 137 cameras for Zone VI though I wonder
if he also didn't sell the plans and surplus parts to Fred as part of
their settlement.

More at http://www.wisner.com/history.htm


Regards,

John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com
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