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Made between 1932 and 1936, the original Contax, known as Contax I after later models were introduced, was markedly different from the corresponding Leica.Using a die-cast alloy body it housed a vertically travelling metal focal-plane shutter reminiscent of the one used in Contessa-Nettel cameras, made out of interlocking blackened brass slats somewhat like a roll-up garage door.
Kodak also sold 8 mm movie cameras starting from 1932 under the Ciné-Kodak Eight sub-brand. The first Eights included the Ciné-Kodak Eight, Model 20 , which had a 13 mm ( 1 ⁄ 2 -in) f /3.5 lens; the Model 25 , which closely resembled the 20, but was equipped with a faster f /2.7 lens; and the Model 60 , which had an even faster f /1.9 lens ...
2000 – J-SH04 introduced by J-Phone, the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that can take and share still pictures. [24] 2005 – AgfaPhoto files for bankruptcy. The production of Agfa brand consumer films ends. 2006 – Dalsa produces a 111 megapixel CCD sensor, the highest resolution at that time.
M3 – 1954–1967 (Total 200,000 units manufactured) Introduced at the German photokina exhibition in 1954, the M3 was the first of the M series Leicas, a line that is still manufactured today, and featured the first Leica body with a bayonet-style mount for interchangeable lenses. In an advertisement from 1956, it was regarded as a "lifetime ...
Bell & Howell 8 mm amateur camera Filmo Straight Eight. When Kodak introduced 8 mm film in 1932, Bell & Howell was slow to take up the new format, and when it did so, it was not in the form of the Kodak standard. The first 8 mm Filmo was offered in 1935 as a single run 8mm film camera, the Filmo 127-A called Straight Eight.
Vision Research - High speed digital cameras, Marketed under the "Phantom" brand. Wista - view cameras designed for digital backs. Wildgame - trail cameras and action cameras; JETE - Webcam; Advan - Smartphones; Zenit - Announced that it was resuming camera and lens production for the M-mount, as well as for unspecified Nikon and Canon mounts ...
Similar rollfilm cameras manufactured contemporaneously by Voigtländer included the Petito (1924), Rollfilm (1925), Inos (1931), Jubilar (1931), Prominent (1932), and Perkeo (1950, 6×6). In 1997, the Voigtländer brand was licensed to Cosina, which subsequently introduced an unrelated line of 135 film rangefinder cameras using the Bessa name.
Some camera makers design lenses but outsource manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to sell under their own brand name. A few companies are only in the lens business. Some camera companies make no lenses, but usually at least sell a lens from some lens maker with their cameras as part of a package.