Cosina

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Cosina is a Japanese camera maker. They are often better known under other names -- for example they are manufacturing the modern Voigtländer cameras and the newly revived Zeiss Ikon rangefinder camera. However in the 1970s and 1980s they did make cameras under their own name.

Here is an exception which was made in 90s -> 2000s -- Cosina SW-107 version of Bessa L, silver only, identical to L except different top plate, made at the beginning of the Cosina Voigtlander era for areas where Cosina was not authorized to market the Voigtlander trademark. The 107's are hard to find now.In addition to the above two cameras, Cosina are also manufacturing a Nikon mount rangefinder, the R2S; Cosina is the ONLY camera manufacturer EVER to manufacture ALL four major classic 35mm RF mounts -- Leica screw, Leica M, Nikon Rangefinder, and Contax rangefinder. Unfortunately the R2S and the R2C ( Contax mount ) are the same camera with different mounts and both carrying the Voightlander name.

35mm SLR

35mm compact