Maginon
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The projection lens
The Maginon was a projection lens type made by German lens maker Will.
The trademark
After Will's production switch from photo optics to microscope optics, maGinon became somebody else's brand, as trademark for photography accessories, lenses and cameras.
A few cameras once sold under the widely known old maGinon trademark label were made by Premier, Goko and Skanhex, and pre-RCP maGinon also offered some photography accessories, even some very special ones for certain camera types like the Minolta AF-E add-on optics set for tele and wide-angle.
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| HQC maGinon-Serie G MC 1:4.0-5.6 f=70-210mm image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
lenses and cameras
lenses
| maGinon-Serie G MC Auto 1:1.7 f=50mm |
| Auto Zoom maGinon-Serie G MC 1:4.0 f=70-210mm |
| HQC maGinon-Serie G MC 1:4.0-5.6 f=70-210mm |
| maGinon-Serie G MC 1:8 f=500mm Supertele BV |
| Mirror Lens maGinon-Serie G MC 1:8 f=500mm |
| Auto Zoom maGinon-Serie G MC 1:4.0-5.6 f=28-200mm |
| Auto Zoom maGinon-Serie G MC 1:3.5/4.5 f=28-70mm |
| HQC maGinon-Serie G MC 1:3.5/4.5 f=35-70mm |
| AUTO MAGINON MC ZOOM 1:3.5-4.5 f=35-70mm |
| maGinon AF Lens 35-70mm 1:3.5-4.5 |
| maGinon-Serie G HQC AF f=28-70mm 1:3.5/4.5 |
| AF Zoom maGinon-Serie G MC 1:4.0-5.6 f=28-200mm |
| maGinon-Serie G HQC AF f=70-210mm 1:4.0-5.6 |
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| maGinon CF35 image by Jörg Krüger (Image rights) |
cameras
| camera | type | maker |
| maGinon SX-410z | digicam | Skanhex |
| Goko maGinon P-75 AF | compact camera (35mm) | Goko |
| maGinon Slimline X4 | compact camera (35mm) | Premier |
| maGinon 8300 | compact camera (35mm) | Premier |
| maGinon CF35 | compact camera (35mm) | ? |
| maGinon IX-1 | compact camera (APS) | Chinon |
| maGinon K1000 | SLR (35mm) | Pentax |
The company
The brand maGinon seems to have vanished. In Germany that has changed - there's a maginon.de website advertising several products, among them camera drones and automatic forest cameras for observing wild animals. Thus the brand under MAGINON label still has to do with cameras, but very special ones, no more general photography apparatuses, among other products, and it's now in hands of German RCP Handels-GmbH, a trading company, which also owns the Rollei brand now.
