GAF

GAF Memo 35 EE image by bomobob (Image rights)

GAF 136 XF image by John Kratz (Image rights)

GAF Anscomatic 126 image by Matt Jones (Image rights)

GAF SC/100 Cine camera image by Terri Monahan (Image rights)

GAF is an acronym for General Aniline & Film, the camera brand used by Ansco after 1967 (it had been the parent corporation's name for decades). Some GAF cameras were also branded Anscomatic.

GAF was not a major manufacturer as such, but became a brand name used in the US and UK for cameras (including cine cameras) built by other companies according to their specifications. GAF bought the View-Master stereo viewer line and continued it under their own brand.

GAF sold several 35mm SLRs, rangefinders and viewfinder cameras. The SLRs and rangefinders were made by Chinon or Cosina, and were functionally the same as Chinon models. Other format may have been made by Petri, but the cheapest models typically came from Haking in Hong Kong. Haking finally bought the company (and the Ansco brand) in 1978.

Cameras

GAF-branded SLRs

• GAF L-14
• GAF L-17 (has double exposure capability).
• GAF L-CM
• GAF L-CS
• GAF LC-X (a rebadged Chinon CX)
• GAF L-ES
• GAF L-ES a
• GAF L-ES/2 (a rebadged Chinon CE II Memotron)

GAF-branded 35mm cameras

• GAF Memo 35 EE (a clone of the Vivitar 35ES and also rebranded by Dixons in the UK as the Prinz 35EE, with all of them being based on the Konica 35 and Minolta Hi-Matic rangefinders.)
• GAF Memo 35 ET (similar to 35 EE, but with the slower f/2.8 lens, making it comparable to the Vivitar 35EE and Chinon 35EE)
• GAF Point Five (by Chinon)
• Ansco GAF half-frame (rebadged Ricoh Auto Half)

GAF-branded 110, 126, and 127 cameras

• 126 film
  • GAF 100 XF
  • GAF 136 XF (126, cartridge camera, clone of Halina Signal Flash).
  • GAF 200 XF
  • GAF Anscomatic 126
  • GAF Anscomatic 326
  • GAF Anscomatic 626
  • GAF Anscomatic 726 (a rebadged Petri rangefinder)
  • GAF Anscomatic Cadet
  • Anscomatic Cadet Flash
  • GAF Seventy Six instant load

• 110 film
  • GAF 220 Instant Load
  • GAF Personal Camera
  • GAF Personal 2

• 127 film
  • GAF Ansco 127

GAF movie cameras

Section under construction

Links

• GAF 220 at www.collection-appareils.fr