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| − | '''Argus''' Inc. was a camera maker based in Ann Arbor. | + | '''Argus''' Inc. was a camera maker based in Ann Arbor. Before 1939 it was '''International Research Corporation''', a department of ''International Radio Corporation'', Ann Arbor. It was the American company that popularized the modern cartridged 35mm film in the U.S., especially by its characteristically brick-shaped rangefinder cameras. The first camera of Argus, the [[Argus A]], resulted from a patent that the company received in 1936. Before that time the company had produced radios, among them some bakelite models. |
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| + | Argus became a great name in the Ann Arbor's economy. Several buildings of its heydays are still known as Argus building. One of these pearls of the city's brick architecture has become a modern office building now, with a public area where a permanent exhibition of Argus cameras is shown, the Argus Museum. | ||
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| + | ||[http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbaird/8578374/in/pool-camerapedia/ http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/8578374_f33eceb1e5_m.jpg]<br/>Argus Building,<br/> | ||
| + | 535 West William Street<br/> | ||
| + | now an office building,<br/> | ||
| + | home of the Argus Museum | ||
| + | ||[http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo90/702617486/in/pool-camerapedia/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1231/702617486_80cb7731c7_m.jpg]<br/>Characteristic house corner<br/> | ||
| + | of a former Argus building<br/> | ||
| + | that became part of the University | ||
| + | ||[http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo90/1229208061/in/pool-camerapedia/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1303/1229208061_1874ff6a0f_m.jpg]<br/>The entrance of<br/> | ||
| + | that building | ||
| + | |} | ||
== List of Argus Cameras == | == List of Argus Cameras == | ||
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* [[Argus A-Four]] | * [[Argus A-Four]] | ||
* [[Argus C4]] | * [[Argus C4]] | ||
| − | * Argus C44 | + | * [[Argus C44]] |
* Argus C44R | * Argus C44R | ||
* Argus C4 Modified | * Argus C4 Modified | ||
Revision as of 23:56, 26 August 2007
Argus Inc. was a camera maker based in Ann Arbor. Before 1939 it was International Research Corporation, a department of International Radio Corporation, Ann Arbor. It was the American company that popularized the modern cartridged 35mm film in the U.S., especially by its characteristically brick-shaped rangefinder cameras. The first camera of Argus, the Argus A, resulted from a patent that the company received in 1936. Before that time the company had produced radios, among them some bakelite models.
Argus became a great name in the Ann Arbor's economy. Several buildings of its heydays are still known as Argus building. One of these pearls of the city's brick architecture has become a modern office building now, with a public area where a permanent exhibition of Argus cameras is shown, the Argus Museum.
 Argus Building, 535 West William Street |
 Characteristic house corner of a former Argus building |
 The entrance of that building |
Contents
List of Argus Cameras
A-series
A-series Links
C-series
- Argus C
- Argus C2
- Argus C3
- Argus C3 colormatic
- Argus C3 Golden Shield
- Argus C3 MatchMatic
- Argus C3 Standard
- Argus C33
Autronic Series
- Argus Autronic 35
- Argus Autronic C3
- Argus Autronic I
- Argus Autronic II
TLR
- Argus 40
- Argus 75
- Argus Super Seventy-Five
- Argus Argoflex
- Argus Argoflex E
- Argus Argoflex EF
- Argus Argoflex EM
- Argus Argoflex Forty
- Argus Argoflex II
- Argus Argoflex Seventy-Five
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Other
- Argus 21
- Argus A-Four
- Argus C4
- Argus C44
- Argus C44R
- Argus C4 Modified
- Argus C4R
- Argus/Cosina STL 1000
Links
- Argus page at Collection G. Even's site
- Various Argus Camera at Sylvain Halgand's collection
- Argus camera guide of argoflex.com
