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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 camera]]s. 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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'''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 camera]]s. 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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== List of Argus Cameras ==
 
== List of Argus Cameras ==
 
=== A-series ===
 
=== A-series ===

Revision as of 15:41, 5 October 2010

Argus buildings:

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Argus Building,
535 West William Street
now an office building,
home of the Argus Museum

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Characteristic house corner
of a former Argus building that
became part of the University

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The entrance of
that building

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The entrance of another Argus building

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C3 and C3 Matchmatic

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.

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image 1940's, by Charles Dunlap


List of Argus Cameras

A-series

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A-series Links

C-series

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Autronic Series

TLR

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Other

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Sources

Links

Manuals

Books

  • Henry J. Gambino: "Argomania", 2005
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