Paimex
Paimex Industrial Company, Ltd. was a camera-maker in Taiwan, responsible for unlicensed copies of two Japanese 35mm cameras in the 1980s. The Paimex name is known on just two cameras, the Paimex E35 (a copy of the Hanimex 35 Micro Flash compact viewfinder camera) and the Paimex 35 AF (copy of a Konica C35 AF2).[1] Examples have been seen for sale complete with a box branded for Paimex, and with a serial-number plate added to the rear that is not on the original maker's branded camera. The Paimex E35 even has an original logo replacing the Hanimex one on the front.
The Paimex copies are so similar to the original cameras that one would take them to be rebadged, but they were made in Taiwan without permission of the original makers,[2] and a complaint was made about it to the Taiwanese government by a Japanese photographic industry body.
Notes
- ↑ Listing of exhibitors at a Photographic Marketing Association show, Popular Photography, June 1983, p.98, reproduced at Google Books. The listing is for the Paimex-branded cameras, and attributes them to Koyoca Camera, Inc., a division of Paimex Industrial Co. Ltd.
- ↑ Caveat Emptor, editorial by Arthur Goldsmith, discussing recent Taiwanese camera-copying, including the Paimex 35 AF. Popular Photography December 1983, p65. Reproduced at Google Books.
