Chinon

Chinon Industries Inc. is owned by Kodak Japan Limited, the Japanese daughter company of Eastman Kodak Co. . It sells digital cameras to Kodak and provides assistance to Kodak Electronic Products (Shanghai), the manufacturer of its cameras.

The takeover by Kodak took place in January and February 2004. Before that time Chinon had been an independent camera manufacturer for around 50 years.

35mm SLR

• Chinon CE Memotron
• Chinon CE II Memotron (only Pentax 42mm thread mount "auto" exposure camera)
• Chinon CM-1
• Chinon CX
• Chinon CX II
• Chinon CS
• Chinon CS-4
• Chinon SLR
• Chinon GS-7 (Genisis)
• Genesis II (GS-8)
• Genisis III
• Genesis IV
• Chinon CP-9AF
• Chinon CG-5
• Chinon CM-7
• Chinon CP-7m (only program K-mount body using just standard K-mount lenses)
• Chinon CE-4
• Chinon CE-4s
• Chinon CE-5
• Chinon CM-5
• Chinon CM-7
• Chinon CM-4
• Chinon CA-4
• Chinon CP-5 / CP-5s
• Chinon CP-6
• Chinon DP-5
• Chinon DSL
• Chinon CP-X

35mm Power Winders

• Chinon PW

Chinon info back

• Chinon info back 2 (data back)
• Chinon info back 3 (Interval timer)

Point & Shoot

• Chinon Belami AF (35mm)
• Chinon Bellami (35mm)
• Chinon AP700S (APS)

Links

• [http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ User manuals for almost every Chinon SLR and many "point and shoot" camera models. Almost all manuals are in HTML format that can be (roughly) translated to other languages using the translation links at the top of the page. Full manual text and images. Also a link to the never produced video back for the company's CP-9AF autofocus SLR. As the subfolder shows, this site was originally dedicated to Chinon models. Site also includes dealer pricing (1991) and public relations booklets. Service manuals for specific Chinon manuals available soon.
• company site
• Chinon Cameras at www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand
• Chinon page at Collection G. Even's site