Haking

W. Haking Enterprises Ltd. is a camera and binocular maker based in Hong Kong (China). It was founded by Dr. Haking Wong (1906-1996) and Dr. Pauline Chan in 1956. 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).

Halina A1 by uwekulick

Its camera products of the brands Halina and Ansco are distributed nowadays in the UK, Ireland, the Middle East and Africa by a company named Halina Imaging, that belongs to the British photographic distribution company SPS Logistics.

Older cameras of Haking are marked as "Empire made" :

35mm film cameras

SLR

• Haking L80

Viewfinder, manual focus

Halina 35X

• Halina 2000 (aka Halina Paulette II)
• Halina 35X / Micronta 35X / Sunscope 35X
• Halina 35X mark II
• Halina Super 35X
• Halina 300
• Halina 3000
• Halina 35-600
• Halina 500 / Cortina 500 (zone focus)
• Halina Flash 350
• Halina MW 35E (zone focus)
• Halina Paulette

Halina Paulette EE II by RaúlM

• Halina Paulette Electric
• Halina Paulette EE II
• Halina Pet
• Halina Rolls

Fixed or auto-focus

Halina 150 and 260 by Arty Smokes

• Haking AF 35 D
• Halina 150 (has hot-shoe; available in bright red)
• Halina 160
• Halina 260 (has built-in flash; available in bright red)
• Halina 1600
• Halina 1610 Motor (34mm f/4.5 fixed focus; integrated flash; available in bright blue)
• Halina AF810
• Halina AF Sensor
• Halina/Ansco Easy Vision series (Motor S, Mini S, Smart S)
• Halina F700
• Halina Flash 350
• Halina MW35 G (fixed focus 38mm)
• Halina Panorama
• Halina Pix 35F
• Halina Vision series (II, III, 20-20, Cxas, MAF, Snapz, XF Easy Load, XM, XMS)
• Halina Ansco Vision Compact 35 / Vision 3 DX
• Halina Micro 35

Halina Prestige 280S by rachelcreative

• Halina Ansco Silhouette Zoom
• Ansco Tegra
• Ansco Vision Twin Lens (110)
• Halina Prestige 280S (fixed focus 28mm)
• Halina Tegra Zoom 200

126 film cameras

Halina 300

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

Disc film cameras

• Halina Disc 102 (Zippy-F)
• Halina Disc 108
• Halina Disc 328

110 film cameras

Haking and Halina pocket cameras

• Haking 220 EF
• CTC 110 pocket / Haking Grip-C / Halina 110 Auto-Flip
• Halina Super-Mini 5000
• Halina MF 200
• Halina Powerdrive 90F / Halina Powerdrive 90T
• Halina Micromatic
• Halina Flashmatic 110 Tele
• Halina SBTM
• Halina Super-Mini 88
• Halina Telewide
• Halina Telemaster
• Haking Micro 110 / Halina Micro 110
• 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 30 AF
• Halina APSilon 250 AF

127 film cameras

Empire Baby

• 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 by Awcam

• Halina A1
• Haking Mirroflex II
• Halina Prefect
• Halina Viceroy / Kinoflex / Votar Reflex
  • Wales Reflex like Prefect (brillant finder) or like Viceroy (screen finder)

Viewfinder

• Halina 6-4

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

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

In French:

• Haking page at Collection G. Even's site
• Haking Cameras on www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand

In German

• Haking, the legend lives in photoscala 2009 [1]