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(Nooo! The manufacturer of the Leica II was NOT Leica. (And "manufacturer" is now stripped of its original meaning.))
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For clarity, page titles should be the full version of the camera name, including the brand.  
 
For clarity, page titles should be the full version of the camera name, including the brand.  
  
(In the 21st century, the "manufacturer" typically subcontracts actual manufacture to some unnamed company where labor is cheap, but we take "manufacturer" to mean the company that is ultimately in charge of design, manufacture and marketing. This manufacturer and the brand are typically identical. By contrast, in the 1950s manufacturer and brand were typically distinct: Leitz/Leica, Nippon Kōgaku/Nikon, Konishiroku/Konica, Société Optique et Précision de Levallois/Foca.) Examples of good article naming are [[Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII]] and [[Leica II]].)
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(In the 21st century, the "manufacturer" typically subcontracts actual manufacture to some unnamed company where labor is cheap, but we take "manufacturer" to mean the company that is ultimately in charge of design, manufacture and marketing. This manufacturer and the brand are typically identical. By contrast, in the 1950s manufacturer and brand were typically distinct: Leitz/Leica, Nippon Kōgaku/Nikon, Konishiroku/Konica, Société Optique et Précision de Levallois/Foca.)  
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Examples of good article naming are [[Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII]] and [[Leica II]].
  
 
For consistency, it's good to specify the brand within the page title even when the camera is named so distinctively as to render the brand superfluous; therefore "[[Pentax Spotmatic]]" for the camera often simply called "Spotmatic".
 
For consistency, it's good to specify the brand within the page title even when the camera is named so distinctively as to render the brand superfluous; therefore "[[Pentax Spotmatic]]" for the camera often simply called "Spotmatic".

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