Porst

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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 AGFA , Balda,Braun, Dacora, Franka and Adox, and rebadged them. In the early years, t used the Hapo brand, an acronym of Hanns Porst, from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s. Lateron, the house brand cameras appeared under the PORST name, e.g. PORST compact reflex or PORST 135 BS. A lot of these later house-brand cameras were produced by Cosina, but also by Fuli, Yashica, Mamiya or Taron


By 1996, the Porst chain of camera stores was Germany's largest photographic retailer[1], and in that year it was purchased by a Belgian investment group. In 2001, ownership was transferred to Pixelnet. The following year, the company became insolvent and the rights to the name Porst were sold to the German group Ringfoto.[2]

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

Notes

  1. ↑ McKeown, p.  797.
  2. ↑ From 1996: Porst chronology at kamera-geschichte.de.

Bibliography

Links

In German:

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