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* [[Chinon CX|Argus CR-2]] ([[Chinon]])
 
* [[Chinon CX|Argus CR-2]] ([[Chinon]])
 
*  Argus/Cosina STL 1000 ([[Cosina]])
 
*  Argus/Cosina STL 1000 ([[Cosina]])
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* [[Argus Model M]]
 
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* [[Argus V-100]] (German OEM)
 
* [[Argus V-100]] (German OEM)

Revision as of 20:25, 29 November 2009

Argus Inc. was a camera maker based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 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.

Some Argus products were OEM products made by other makers.

Argus buildings

List of Argus Cameras

A-series

A-series Links

C-series

Autronic Series

TLR

Other

Links

Manuals