dumb question about Sinar

[John Cook]

Never been to Switzerland, so I can't help you.

But having spent much time with native Japanese photographic students in LA, I can attest that Nikon is definitely pronounced "Nee-kon" in Japan.

Back in those days, the second word my pals learned in English was "Ko-dock". My, how times change!

[Armin Seeholzer]

Hi all

I'm from the german speaking part of Switzerland and what L Zhu is correct and we here say the i not to short but the ar is definitly a bit longer then the i! But it doesn't matter as long as I understand it!

[David G. Gagnon]

Okay. Now we need to ask Bob S. how to pronounce EPOI.
How about it , Bob?

DG

[Bob Salomon]

Ehrenreich Photo Optical Inc.

Or EPOI

[David Flockhart]

In Aussie speak it's si (short vowel) nar - but why does it matter?

[Jonathan_5775]

I think it's been quite established that the swiss, including those working at the factory, and Koch himself - pronounce it SEE-nar. I thought we were bickering about how to pronounce it in america...?

[robc]

I see the problem.

The mainland Europeans pronounce I as e and E as eh, at least some of them do.

Now your confused aren't you...

just listen to any language course tapes for German. When you get to Y things go Greek (upsilon) which is really confusing because my dictionary (Oxford english of course) says upsilon is Greek for U.

Its a swiss camera spelt SINAR.

Oops I meant Suisse or did I mean Helvetian. Damn I had better start a thread about it so as to be sure.

Tomato, Tomato, Potato, Potato, the question says it all...

[DaddyWarbucks]

Aside from my Sinar rep calling it SEE-nar, in the late eighties I went to a demo seminar with the young man (I guess he was Koch's son) who was heading up the company.

He also pronounced it SEE-nar. So I guess that's as close to an authoritative answer as you can get.

More interestingly, he described what his company this way:

“Here’s the photography market.” (He drew a pyramid.)
“Here’s the professional segment.” (He drew a line near the top of the pyramid.) “Here’s the large format segment.” (He drew a line cutting off all but a tiny top.)
“Here’s the premium large format market.” (He drew a line lopping all but an infinitesimal top of the pyramid.)
“That’s our business.”

I’ve got a Mercedes, but that’s a mass-market vehicle by comparison!

[rdenney]

Aside from my Sinar rep calling it SEE-nar, in the late eighties I went to a demo seminar with the young man (I guess he was Koch's son) who was heading up the company.

He also pronounced it SEE-nar. So I guess that's as close to an authoritative answer as you can get.

I suppose after five years since the previous post in this thread, people might still be curious.

Rick "who has pronounced it both ways, with the implied 'prove me wrong'" Denney