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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.
Contents
Argus buildings
 Argus Building, |
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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
- Argus C-twenty
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
Other
- Argus A-Four
- Argus C4
- Argus C44
- Argus C44R
- Argus C4 Modified
- Argus C4R
- Argus Model M
- Argus 127 (Whitehouse Products)
- Argus CR-2 (Chinon)
- Argus/Cosina STL 1000 (Cosina)
- Argus Lady Carefree and Argus Flash Sensor 235x (Sedic)
- Argus V-100 (German OEM)
Sources
Links
- Argus page at Collection G. Even's site
- Various Argus Camera at Sylvain Halgand's collection
- Argus Camera Historyon the Argus Company site
- Mark O'Brien's Argus Camera page
- Argus Camera Photographers Group and Pool on Flickr
- When was my Argus camera made?, by Phillip G. Sterritt, at Photo.net
- Argus still camera and slide projector reference guides, by Phillip G. Sterritt, at Photo.net
Manuals
Books
- Henry J. Gambino: "Argomania", 2005
