Comments on: Our Five Favorite Cameras Not Made in Japan or Germany

By: Adam Singer

Adam Singer — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 08:13:05 +0000

Wot No MPP Microcord a good Rolleicord challenger? Then the Chinese Seagull, and the rather good French Foca. The Alpa is all you say it is but the point of the Alpa, was the lenses made for it ; like the 50mm 1.9 Kern Macro Switar, more than equal to any thing from Zeiss ot Leitz at the time; it is one of the all time great lenses. Let alone others from Angenieux et al. The other joy of the Alpa is through adapters you can use Pentax and Nikon lenses on it. Then there is the Swiss Sinar Norma and subsequent models , the ‘Hasselblad of large format’, worth noting that with careful shopping you can get a Norma for not much more than a 4×5 intrepid.

By: Alan Chin

Alan Chin — Wed, 20 May 2020 01:00:13 +0000

Don’t forget the Czech Flexaret TLRs.
Or the Chinese Seagull and Shanghai TLRs…
As well as Minolta MD mount Seagull 35mm SLRs and the folding 6×6 rangefinder they made as well.
And modern Chinese Fotoman and Gaoersi large/medium format cameras.

By: Jeb Inge

Jeb Inge — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:09:03 +0000

In reply to Clive W. I was tempted to make a joke around the Portugese/Canadian Leica stuff...

By: Edoardo Battistini

Edoardo Battistini — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:46:29 +0000

Don’t forget the made in Italy Rectaflex: the first camera,before the Contax S, with a pentaprism

By: Clive W

Clive W — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:21:16 +0000

That was fun. Now, can I be cheeky and nominate the made-in-Singapore Rollei 35? Mine is a TE, of which I don’t think any were made in Germany, and the nudge-up-nudge-down LED meter is a feature not found in any German camera that I know of.

Stretching a point, I know, but it was either that or the Zenit E…

By: Martin Siegel

Martin Siegel — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:13:13 +0000

Mixing Austrians and/or Swiss into the same pot with Germans is not the right thing to do. And then only fishing the Swiss out again.