Porst

Photo Porst was a German distributor and retailer of many brands of cameras. It was founded in 1919 by Hanns Porst in Nuremberg, Germany. For many years Porst bought cameras to other manufacturers, among which Dacora, Balda, Franka and Adox, and rebadged them. It used the Hapo brand, an acronym of Hans Porst, from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s. By 1996, the Porst AG chain of retail camera stores was Germany's largest photographic retailer, and in that year was purchased by a Belgian investment group. In 2001, ownership was transferred to Pixelnet, and after a period of insolvency, rights to the brand Photo Porst were sold to the German group Ringfoto.

120 folder

• Hapo 3 (6×9 and 4.5×6), is a Franka Bonafix
• Hapo 3 (6×9 and 4.5×6), is first a Balda Fixfocus then a Franka Rolfix
• Hapo 10 (6×9 and 4.5×6), is first a Balda Fixfocus then a Balda Pontina
• Hapo 45 (6×9 and 4.5×6), is a Balda Pontina
• Hapo 50 (6×9 and 4.5×6), is an Adox Sport
• Hapo 100 (6×9 and 4.5×6), is an Adox Sport
• Hapo 66 (6×6), made by Dacora
• Hapo 66e(6×6), is a Balda Mess-Baldix
• Lisette (4.5×6), is a Balda Baldax (prewar)

127 rigid

• Hapomatic (4×4), is a Braun Paxina Electromatic

35mm rigid

• Hapomat 100
• Hapomat 200
• Haponette
• Haponette B
• Hapo 24, is a Balda Baldina (postwar)
• Hapo 24e, is a Balda Super Baldina (postwar)
• Hapo 36

Links

In German:

• Porst rebadged cameras at The kamera-geschichte.de website has many pages about Photo Porst, among which:
  • Porst rebadged cameras
  • Table of rebadged cameras
  • Company chronology
• Photo Porst article of the German Wikipedia