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+ | * [http://blog.dcview.com/article.php?a=AD5TMQxuAjI%253D Argus C: the first best-selling 135 film camera (1938)], at [http://blog.dcview.com/ckshene DCView] (in Chinese, [http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.dcview.com%2Farticle.php%3Fa%3DAD5TMQxuAjI%25253D English translation]) | ||
+ | * [http://jsurp.tripod.com/Argus_Museum.pdf The Argus Museum: Ann Arbor's Hidden Treasure] (PDF), by Henry Gambino, at [http://jsurp.tripod.com/museum/ The Argus Museum] | ||
* [http://photo.even.free.fr/col_app_argus.php Argus page] at [http://photo.even.free.fr/ Collection G. Even's site] | * [http://photo.even.free.fr/col_app_argus.php Argus page] at [http://photo.even.free.fr/ Collection G. Even's site] | ||
* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeA_imagettes.php#Argus Various Argus Camera at Sylvain Halgand's collection] | * [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeA_imagettes.php#Argus Various Argus Camera at Sylvain Halgand's collection] |
Revision as of 13:35, 30 December 2010
Argus buildings:
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.
image 1940's, by Charles Dunlap |
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
- 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 C: the first best-selling 135 film camera (1938), at DCView (in Chinese, English translation)
- The Argus Museum: Ann Arbor's Hidden Treasure (PDF), by Henry Gambino, at The Argus Museum
- Argus page at Collection G. Even's site
- Various Argus Camera at Sylvain Halgand's collection
- Argus Camera Historyon the Argus Company site
- 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