Haking

Halina A1 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

image by CJHurst (Image rights)

W. Haking Enterprises Ltd. is a camera and binocular maker based in Hong Kong (China), selling many cameras under the brand Halina. It was founded in 1956, by Dr. Haking Wong (1906-1996) and Dr. Pauline Chan. In 2002 the company was taken over by Dr. Tony Chak-Leung Tai & Dr. Tai-Chin Lo and built a new factory in Xinhui (Guangdong).

Haking gained ownership of the former US brand Ansco, and has also produced many "private label" cameras which appear under other brands. Halina and Ansco camera products are distributed today in the UK, Ireland, the Middle East and Africa by a company named Halina Imaging, which belongs to the British photographic distribution company SPS Logistics.

Older cameras from Haking may be marked as "Empire made" :

35mm film cameras

SLR

• Haking L80

Viewfinder, manual focus

Halina 35X image by Paul Analog (Image rights)

Halina Paulette EE II image by Raúl Sá Dantas (Image rights)

• Haking Autoflash 35 / Topcon 135 EE / Revue 350 F
• Halina 2000 (aka Halina Paulette II)
• Halina 35X / Micronta 35X / Sunscope 35X
• Halina Super 35X
• Halina 300
• Halina 3000(CIL 3000)
• Halina 35-600
• Halina 500 / Cortina 500 (zone focus)
• Halina Autoflash 35
• Halina Flash 350
• Halina MW 35E (zone focus)
• Halina MW35S / Haking MW35S
• Halina Paulette
• Halina Paulette Electric
• Halina Paulette EE II
• Halina Pet
• Halina Rolls

Fixed or auto-focus

• Ansco 1065 (35mm w/fixed focus 48mm f:8 lens)
• Haking AF 35 D
• Haking CFLII
• Haking Compact Flash
• Haking Compact Flash G
• Haking H400
• Haking Junior G
• Haking Mini AF
• Haking Uno-A
• Halina 35/Ansco 35
• Halina 35X mark II
• Halina 150 (has hot-shoe; available in bright red)
• Halina 160
• Halina 260 (has built-in flash; available in bright red)
• Halina 1000
• Halina 1600
• Halina 1610 Motor (34mm f/4.5 fixed focus; integrated flash; available in bright blue)
• Halina 1950TL
• Halina AF800
• Halina AF810
• Halina AF Sensor
• Halina/Ansco Easy Vision series (Motor S, Mini S)
• Halina F700
• Halina Flash 300 (aka Haking Flash-Lite G)
• Halina Flash 350
• Halina Micro 35 ( Haking Compact-SC / Ansco 2000 Micro 35 / Miranda 35ME / Revue 35FC)
• Halina Micro E
• Halina MW35 AF
• Halina MW35 G (fixed focus 38mm)
• Halina Panorama
• Halina Panorama-F
• Halina Pix 35F
• Halina Prestige 280S (fixed focus 28mm)
• Halina Prestige 280AS (auto-focus 28mm)
• Halina/Ansco Silhouette Zoom
• Halina Silhouette 28 DF
• Halina Speedy 33
• Ansco Tegra
• Halina Tegra Zoom 200
• Halina Vision series (I, II, III, 20-20, C XAS, MAF, Snapz, XAS, XF Easy Load, XM, C XMS, Smart, Smart S, Mini 28 DF, Mini MZ, Ultra Compact)
• Halina/Ansco Vision Compact 35 / Vision 3 DX

126 film cameras

Halina 300 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

• Halina 100X
• Halina Signal Flash / GAF 136 XF
• Halina 300
• Halina Simplette series
  • Halina Simplette Electric
• Halina Speedoflash
• Halina Easi Load

Disc film cameras

Note: parallel models also exist under Ansco branding

• Haking Disc 06
• Haking Disc 18s
• Halina Disc 100 (Haking Disc 01-H)
• Halina Disc 102 (Zippy-F)
• Halina Disc 108 (Haking Disc 11)
• Halina Disc 118
• Halina Disc 208
• Halina Disc 328
• Halina Disc 408

110 film cameras

Haking and Halina pocket cameras image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

• Haking 220 EF
• Haking VB/2
• CTC 110 pocket / Haking Grip-C / Halina 110 Auto-Flip
• Haking Micro 110 / Halina Micro 110
• Halina 110 Flashmatic
• Halina 202
• Halina Flashmatic 110 Tele
• Halina MF 200
• Halina Micromatic
• Halina Minimatic 101
• Halina Minimatic 110
• Halina Pix 110F
• Halina Pix 110T
• Halina Powerdrive 90F / Halina Powerdrive 90T
• Halina STB Flashmatic 110 Tele
• Halina SBTM
• Halina Super-Mini 88
• Halina Super-Mini 5000
• Halina Tele Flash
• Halina Telemaster
• Halina Telemaster Flash
• Halina Telewide
• Halina Vision 110 Mini-Motor

APS film cameras

• Haking ZM82AE / Halina ZM80AE-V2 / Agfa Futura Af zoom
• Halina APSilon M10-E
• Halina APSilon 30
• Halina APSilon 30AF
• Halina APSilon 250 AF

127 film cameras

Empire Baby image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

• Halina Baby / Empire Baby
• Halina Roy

The Haco-44, name variant of the Toyoca-44 made by Tougodo, is sometimes attributed to Haking by mistake.

120 film cameras

6×6 TLR

Halina Prefect image by AWCam (Image rights)

• Halina A1
• Haking Mirroflex II
• Halina Prefect / Halina Prefect Senior / Kinoflex / Sunscope / Votar Flex / Wales Reflex
• Halina Viceroy / Kinoflex De Luxe / Star-Lite Super Reflex

Viewfinder

• Halina 6-4
• Empire Scout

Digital cameras

• Halina digital camera
• Halina DVC 300 Digi Pix
• Halina DVC 500 Digi Pix

Super 8 movie film cameras

• Halina Super 8 Empire
• Halina Super Eight
• Halina Super 8 EE
• Halina Super 8 EE Zoom
• Halina Super 8 Compact
• Halina Super 8 Compact EE
• Halina PS 200 RD
• Halina PS 300 RD
• Halina PS 400 RD
• Haking 1000 S
• Haking 2000 S

Camcorder

• Halina DV3000F Digi Pix

Links

In English:

• Official website of W. Haking Enterprises Ltd. Hong Kong and info about Halina Imaging
• Halina at Marriott's World
• Haking camera's in Andrys Stienstra's camera collection
• Halina 35x PDF manual from OrphanCameras.com
• Halina Paulette Electric PDF manual from OrphanCameras.com
• Halina Simplette F PDF manual from OrphanCameras.com
• Halina Super 35X PDF manual from OrphanCameras.com

In French:

• Haking page at Collection G. Even's site

In German

• Haking, the legend lives in photoscala 2009